Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Hustle Quotes to Fuel Your Ambition and Drive - page 127
The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Barney Frank
Control your destiny or somebody will.
Jack Welch
I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.
William Kamkwamba
Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.
I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.
Edward Tufte
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Pasteur
He can't take back what he said on Twitter, that he will fight me.
Sergio Martinez
Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.
Roy Orbison
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
Frank Ocean
Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.
Andy Whitfield
I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.
Peter Diamandis
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
John H. Johnson
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control
Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere.
Roy Jones Jr.
