Quotes June 04-05, 2024

There is nothing so powerful as truth.
Daniel Webster
 
 
 
 
Anytime you feel bad about procrastinating, recall that Mozart composed the overture to Don Giovanni the morning of the day the opera premiered.
Blue Bird of Bitterness
 
 
 
 
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
 
 
 
 
“Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
 
 
 
 
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge
 
 
 
 
“The test of a business man is not whether he can make money in one or two boom years, or can make money through the luck of getting into the field first, but whether in a highly competitive field, without having any initial advantage over his competitors, he can outdistance them in a perfect honourable way and keep the respect of himself and of his community.”
Harvey Firestone