Quotes

Quote 01 :

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it. (Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, 2006)

Quote 02 :

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770.

Quote 03 :

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

Quote 04 :

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road

Quote 05 :

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Quote 06 :

There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

Quote 07 :

Righteousness is good character, and sin is that which revolves in your heart and which you do not want people to know.

Quote 08 :

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Quote 09 :

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. Mother Jones

Quote 10 :

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Quote 11 :

awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Quote 12 :

Verily, to honor an old man is showing respect to God.

Quote 13 :

Victory belongs to the most persevering.- Napoleon

Quote 14 :

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."- Orison Swett Marden

Quote 15 :

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!