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Grateful Quotes — page 272 of 709
“The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.”
“Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.”
“The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it”
“Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.”
“My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.”
“If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.”
“Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”
“All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.”
“Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.”
“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”
“To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style.”
“Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.”
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
“What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.”
“Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.”
“Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.”
“In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.”
“I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.”
“I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.”