Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 140

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.
The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.
 Morrie Brickman
Growth is a painful process. If we’re ever going to collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we’re going to have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.
 Wilma Mankiller
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
 Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.
 Bonnie McFarlane
Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be more successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.
 Chalene Johnson
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.
 Henry Home, Lord Kames
It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.
 Karl Popper
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
 M. Scott Peck
Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.
 Russell Simmons
At a very young age, I wrote down the goals that I had so I could always see what I wanted to accomplish. And I would look at that goal sheet and think \
At a very young age, I wrote down the goals that I had so I could always see what I wanted to accomplish. And I would look at that goal sheet and think "I still want to do this."So I'd decide "I'm not quitting.
 Michael Phelps
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
 Golda Meir
I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.
 Lita Ford
At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.
 Robert McNamara
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
 Grant Bowler
There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.
 Don Marquis
Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can.
Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.
I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.
 Erland Josephson
I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I\'m in love with that place. I\'m obsessed with its sausages.
I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
 Natalia Tena
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.