The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato

I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Dale Carnegie

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
Joe Paterno

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
Barack Obama

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack Obama

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?
Barack Obama

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
Barack Obama

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel