Quotes December 23, 2023

I think I would want my gravestone to read: ‘Here lie the remains of Ted Morgan, who became an American.’
Anxiety is the price that must be paid for boundless opportunity.
Ted Morgan (Sanche de Gramont),
writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
1932-2023
 
 
 
 
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.
George Bernard Shaw – 1856-1950 – Playwright-Critic
 
 
 
 
Courage of the heart is very rare. Let it guide you.
Sarah J. Maas – Author
 
 
 
 
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll – 1833-1899 – Lecturer
 
 
 
 
It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden – 1910-2010 – American Basketball Coach
 
 
 
 
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Ramana Maharshi – 1879-1950 – Indian Hindu Sage
 
 
 
 
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard – 1856-1915 – American Writer-Artist-Philosopher
 
 
 
 
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot – 1888-1965 – Poet-Essayist-Publisher-Social Critic
 
 
 
 
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Gertrude Stein,
writer, poet
 
 
 
 

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison – 1847-1931 – Inventor
 
 
 
 
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie