Quotes August 27, 2020

Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.
Steve Irwin
 
 
 
 
Our beliefs control everything we do. If we believe we can or we believe we cannot, we are correct.
John C. Maxwell
 
 
 
 
What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
professional basketball player
 
 
 
 
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
Corrie ten Boom,
writer, watchmaker
 
 
 
 
It’s not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.
Laurence Fishburne,
actor, playwright, producer, screenwriter, film director
 
 
 
 
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
Cary Grant
 
 
 
 
There’s too much blank sky where a tree once stood.
Jesmyn Ward,
writer, professor
 
 
 
 
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
Ajahn Chah
 
 
 
 
You cannot find peace avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
Sometimes, I’m brave. Sometimes, I’m just stubborn.
Nigia Stephens
 
 
 
 
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
 
 
 
 
Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.
Unknown