User:UltimateSupreme/Quotes

Never put a question mark where the Lord has put a period. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. History is written by the victors. However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. I know that I know nothing. It takes skill to trip over flat surfaces. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. Remember [that] what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Speak softly, and carry a big stick. Bodily excersize, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; But knowledge which is aquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. I didn't fall, I attacked the floor with my awesome ninja skills! A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Everyone has photographic memory, some just don't have the film. The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. A fool finds no pleasure in understanding, but delights in airing his own opinions. You learn by working... for yourself, just as you learn to swim by blundering about in the water, not by watching someone else set a world record in a pool. Be as you wish to seem. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Some ideas are considered dangerous, and you are protected from hearing them. Are you happy about this? Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. Read... with a critical eye. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. Pray for peace, and keep your powder dry. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Perhaps the principal objection to a quarrel is that it interrupts an argument. I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion. ([ purge] for another)