Age Quotes - Page 24

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

The real minimum wage is zero.

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

So if you care to find me/ Look to the western sky/ As someone told me lately/ Everyone deserves the chance to fly!/ And if I'm flying solo/ At least I'm flying free/ Tell those who'd ground me/ Take a message back from me/ Tell them how I am defying gravity!/ I'm flying high defying gravity/ And soon I'll match them in renown./ And nobody in all of Oz/ No Wizard that there is or was/ Is ever gonna bring me down!/

You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career.’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.

You have to have fear in order to have courage.