Age Quotes - Page 21

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

I kinda came into my manhood, or what I thought was my adulthood, early. I had to show up, and I had to make sure I had gas money, food money, rent money, clothes money - everything was on me, startin' at that age, so that's what led me to start hustlin', that's what led me to start to try to find ways to fend for myself. And once I did that, I was full-time, bein' in the street, and, bein' in the street, it's cold. It's the way the streets operate, and you have to adapt to that.

Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe.