Wisdom Quotes
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“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”
Quote by -Michael Jordan
“Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.”
Quote by -Michael Jordan
“Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you’re in a fight.”
Quote by -Michael Jordan
"I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place."
Quote by -Kobe Bryant
"The last time I was intimidated was when I was 6 years old in karate class. I was an orange belt and the instructor ordered me to fight a black belt who was a couple years older and a lot bigger. I was scared s--less. I mean, I was terrified and he kicked my ass. But then I realized he didn't kick my ass as bad as I thought he was going to and that there was nothing really to be afraid of. That was around the time I realized that intimidation didn't really exist if you're in the right frame of mind."
Quote by -Kobe Bryant
"I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it."
Quote by -Kobe Bryant
"When we are saying this cannot be accomplished, this cannot be done, then we are short-changing ourselves. My brain, it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I have to sit there and face myself and tell myself, 'You are a failure,' I think that is almost worse than dying."
Quote by -Kobe Bryant
I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
Quote by -Kobe Bryant
I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.
Quote by -Kobe Bryant
We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
Quote by -Kobe Bryant
We can always kind of be average and do what’s normal. I’m not in this to do what’s normal.
Quote by -Kobe Bryant
"I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. No matter what the injury -- unless it's completely debilitating -- I'm going to be the same player I've always been. I'll figure it out. I'll make some tweaks, some changes, but I'm still coming."
Quote by -Kobe Bryant
Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman pulls it down with her own hands.
Quote by -King Solomon
This abnormal situation resulted in exciting the patriotic feeling of Polish youths to the highest degree.
Quote by -Marie Curie
“I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, on the 'Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.' But... It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.”
Quote by -Vladimir Lenin
“I particularly approve of and welcome the arrest of millionaire saboteurs in the first and second-class railway carriage.”
Quote by -Vladimir Lenin
“I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.”
Quote by -Vladimir Lenin
“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”
Quote by -Aeschylus
“PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers”
Quote by -Aeschylus
“But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.”
Quote by -Aeschylus
“Commander against commander, brother against brother, enemy against enemy, I will take my stand. Quick, bring my greaves to protect against spears and stones!”
Quote by -Aeschylus
“But who can recount all 595 the high daring in the will of man, and in the stubborn hearts of women the all-adventurous passions that couple with man’s overthrow.”
Quote by -Aeschylus
“For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else’s web. Sometimes I think that’s why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There’s a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control….”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“Winter came and the city [Chicago] turned monochrome -- black trees against gray sky above white earth. Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in, boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city lights reflected against the clouds”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.'
Quote by -Barack Obama
Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile.
Quote by -Barack Obama
We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us.”
Quote by -Barack Obama