“You can achieve anything in life. It just depends on how desperate you are to achieve it.”
Milkha Singh (1935) Indian track and field athlete
The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)
Martin Svoboda
Verified author @quick, member from April 4, 2011
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Likely spurious quote, UNVERIFIED ATTRIBUTE - Quoted in The Lexington Observer & Reporter (16 June 1864)
1860s
Variant: I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”
Alfred Adler (1870–1937) Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Anonymous American proverb; since 1998 this has often been attributed to Mark Twain on the internet, but no contemporary evidence of him ever using it has been located. <br class="br">Variants: <br class="br">It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that matters. <br class="br">"Stub Ends of Thoughts" by Arthur G. Lewis, a collection of sayings, in Book of the Royal Blue Vol. 14, No. 7 (April 1911), cited as the earliest known occurrence in The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, edited by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro, p. 232 <br class="br">It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins. <br class="br">Anonymous quote in the evening edition of the East Oregonian (20 April 1911) <br class="br">What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog. <br class="br">Dwight D. Eisenhower, declaring his particular variant on the proverbial assertion in Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast (31 January 1958) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11229 <br class="br">Misattributed
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Notebook
“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
“Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Source: Heliogabalus
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Samuel Beckett book Worstward Ho
Worstward Ho (1983)
Variant: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Context: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
