Tag: Michael Jordan

– “I am only one, but I am one. I can’t do everything, but I can do something. And that I can do, I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do.” – Edward Everett Hale

– “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.” – E.B. White

– “I call all times soon.” – Aslan (from The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader)

– “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan

– “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby

– “I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the battlefield of victory.” – Vince Lombardi

– “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali

– “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.” – Abraham Lincoln

– “I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis

– “I have no desire to be a teenager again. I think that would be beyond nature in a very, very dangerous way. And, in fact, this goes back to the parables of Dorian Gray and Peter Pan about eternal youth. It’s disastrous. It’s incredibly toxic. Within our culture in general, there’s a lot of people trying to prolong their youth, in disastrous ways. It just doesn’t work. The human body has finite limits.” – John Savage

– “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” – Thomas Alva Edison

– “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Chinese Proverb

– “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” – Helen Keller

– “I make myself rich by making my wants few.” – Henry David Thoreau

– “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” – Michelangelo

– “I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.” – Diane Sawyer

– “I will never look at a firefighter the same way again. What is it in someone, hundreds of them, to compel them to run into a burning building while everyone else is running out…just to save people they don’t even know? Their bravery has become part of our collective national legacy. Their bravery dignifies us all.” – Bill Hybels

– “I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that’s not what happiness really is.” – Alanis Morissette