"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
I just got off of the phone with a kindred spirit. An entrepreneur. A misfit. A rebel. Someone who sees things differently and has little respect for the status quo.
Is it hard to be different? To imagine? To explore? To create? To be a little . . . crazy? You bet it is! So here's to him. And to you.
And here are a few of my favorite quotes to inspire you to even further greatness. Enjoy.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees." - Dolores Ibarruri
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain
"Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible?" - Alexaner Eliot
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. Life is either a great adventure or nothing." - Hellen Keller
Posted August 9, 2005
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Posted by: AJ Hoge | August 10, 2005 at 03:31 AM
"Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind." - Isaac Asimov
This will turn in to quite a chain. Great quotes!
Posted by: Aleah | August 10, 2005 at 08:44 AM
"No one said you must be good as gold,
It's what you haven't done that matters when you're old.
– Ian Dury
Posted by: Chough | August 10, 2005 at 09:14 AM
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis again - thanks for brightening my day.
Posted by: nellie lide | August 10, 2005 at 08:18 PM
"for without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not 4get those acts of courage with which mena...have lived" - JKF
"Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisable thought of his mind" - R.W.Emerson
"try not to be man of success, but rather a man of value" - Einstien
Posted by: /PD | August 12, 2005 at 09:25 AM
"If there's one thing I hate, it's the word "safety". We live in a civilization of safety, in which we are eventually cocooned from all danger, that is to say, from all experience. What we are left with is a vegetable plugged into a computer, who never leaves the room, like a hideous vision of a William Gibson novel. We would be well advised to rediscover risk." --Hakim Bey
Posted by: AJ Hoge | August 13, 2005 at 08:51 AM
nothing to do with what you asked for tom.... :(
tiredly just googled around and met an old friend again...
here it is - one of the BEST DESIGN QUOTES ever - let's hear it from bucky:
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
brightens up my sunday morning after a long saturday night.
Posted by: jens | August 14, 2005 at 03:30 AM
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
Posted by: Tom Asacker | August 14, 2005 at 07:40 AM