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William Faulkner Quotes

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william faulknerI’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

I’m inclined to think that a military background wouldn’t hurt anyone.

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.

If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it… the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books… Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Pointless… like giving caviar to an elephant.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it’s the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

Funny Motivational Sports Quotes

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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. – Bill Vaughn

On how to make the game more exciting – Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the height of the players to 5 feet 9 inches, bring back the center jump, allow taxi drivers in for free and allow the players to carry guns. – Al McGuire

Fans never fall asleep at our games because they’re afraid they might get hit with a pass. – George Raveling

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that. – Bill Shankly

I haven’t been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either. – Dave Barry

Basketball is like photography, if you don’t focus, all you have is the negative. – Dan Frisby

The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long. – Jack Dolph (on basketball)

Even if you are on the right track… You’ll get run over if you just sit there! – Will Rogers

Famous Motivational Sports Quotes

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Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be. – Mike Ditka

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. – Walter Payton

If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting. – Dick Vermeil

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

In the 8th winning you can’t hear the roar of the 9th. All you can do to hold yourself together, and trust. – Jim Abbott

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up. – Vince Lombardi

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I’m done. – Tom Osborne

Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King

Best Motivational Sports Quotes for Kids

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The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. – Vince Lombardi

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong

You can motivate players better with kind words than you can with a whip. – Bud Wilkinson

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy. – Arthur Ashe

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure. – Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there. – Venus Williams

In sports, you simply aren’t considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best. – Althea Gibson

Mark Twain Quotes #7

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one–the solitary one–that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices–the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also–in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man’s left hand, except a lady’s watch.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one’s clothes.

Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity–these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.

In morals, conduct, and beliefs we take the color of our environment and associations, and it is a color that can be safely warranted to wash.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can’t sleep anyhow.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances.

You can’t reach old age by another man’s road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

Motivational Sports Quotes

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Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless. – Red Blaik

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win. – Sam Huff

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. – Ferdinand Foch

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. – Vince Lombardi

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. – Mike Singletary

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. – Sydney Smith

I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win. – Arnold Palmer

Competing in sports has taught me that if I’m not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. – Ron Blomberg

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat. – Herschel Walker

Mark Twain Quotes #6

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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain Quotes #5

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A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.