Quotes May 14, 2022


 
 
 
 
“I swear to you, I was never so alive as when I was winning this throne, or so dead as now that I’ve won it.”
Robert Baratheon
 
 
 
 
The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.
Stephen McCranie – Author
 
 
 
 
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli – 1804-1881 – Statesman-Politician-Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 
 
 
 
If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it.
Scott Adam – Author-Cartoonist
 
 
 
 
Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
Baltasar – 1601-1658 – Writer-Philosopher
 
 
 
 
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
Vince Lombardi
 
 
 
 
“Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.”
Gustave Flaubert
 
 
 
 
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass
 
 
 
 
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”
Audrey Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile.”
Alan Shepard
 
 
 
 
“From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.”
Sigmund Freud
 
 
 
 
“This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise, we are just healthy animals.”
Edwin H. Land
 
 
 
 
“The best thing about living is the chance to keep on doing it!”
Lena Horne
 
 
 
 
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“Don’t be afraid of perfection. You will never attain it!”
Salvador Dalí
 
 
 
 
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
Katharine Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“I believe that you’re here on Earth for a short time, and while you’re here, you shouldn’t forget it.”
Bea Arthur
 
 
 
 
“We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.”
B.B. King
 
 
 
 
Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance.
Celeste Ng,
writer
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
 
 
 
 
We are a landscape of all we have seen.
It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.
Isamu Noguchi,
sculptor, designer, landscape architect
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month