“Don’t stop. Knocked down, get up; pushed back, keep pushing forward. If it rains down on your dreams, forget shelter; get wet, keep moving.”
Federico Fellini on Life
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
“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.”
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Maya Angelou on Courage
Maya Angelou's eloquence, brilliance and ability to get to the heart of a matter have made me wish she would run for public office on several occasions. But, I guess her writings will have to do.
What she does here is elucidates the most important virtue:
Courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage you can't practice all the other virtues consistently. You can't be consistently kind, or fair, or humane, or generous. Not without courage.
I couldn't have said it better.
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind,
as well as labor does the body.”
“Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique”
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.”
“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”
“I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent...”
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
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“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
“I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That’s the same view I have for performing. I’m performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.”
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
