“Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.”
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Motivated Quotes — page 175 of 381
“Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.”
“what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger”
“Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.”
“Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.”
“We work to earn our leisure.”
“You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings, practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play.”
“I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.”
“Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.”
“I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.”
“Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.”
“But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.”
“I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.”
“I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.”
“If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.”
“Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.”
“You can't buy what is popular and do well.”
“What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.”
“Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.”
“It was about being wanted, it was about winning, and it was about my passion for the game. I just loved it. I absolutely loved to compete and to step out onto that football field with my teammates.”