Quotes April 05, 2020

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.
Mia Hamm,
professional soccer player, Olympic gold medalist
 
 
 
 
Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.
Rita Dove,
poet, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, US poet laureate
 
 
 
 
Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
Althea Gibson,
professional tennis player, first African American to win a Grand Slam title
 
 
 
 
I can say what most conductors can’t say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
Harriet Tubman,
abolitionist, political activist, Underground Railroad conductor
 
 
 
 
Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
poet, playwright, writer, scientist, statesman, theater director, philosopher
 
 
 
 
If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
Cher,
singer, entertainer, actress
 
 
 
 
Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.
Morgan Freeman,
actor, narrator
 
 
 
 
Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson),
writer, mathematician, clergyman
 
 
 
 
If you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you’ll be able to see in the dark after a while. You’ll adjust.
Jane Campion,
filmmaker, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
Billy Gibbons,
musician, singer-songwriter, producer
 
 
 
 
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W.E.B. Du Bois,
sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, writer, editor
 
 
 
 
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
Mikhail Baryshnikov,
dancer, choreographer, actor
 
 
 
 
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi,
patron saint of Italy, animals, ecology
 
 
 
 
It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen; this law is universal to the whole human race.
Seneca the Elder,
orator