Charles Goodnight famous quotes

When the ranch is in peace, no other life is more perfect.
-- Charles Goodnight

#Perfect #Life Is

Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.
-- Charles Goodnight

#Real #Cowboy #Long

I wish I could find words to express the trueness, the bravery, the hardihood, the sense of honor, the loyalty to their trust and to each other of the old trail hands.
-- Charles Goodnight

#Loyalty #Hands #Bravery

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
-- Charles Goodnight

#Compass #Instinct #Lost

Look at our culture. Look at the computer-enhanced people we compare ourselves to. Look at the expensive cars and trinkets we're all supposed to have. Look at how many people are wrapped up in that! Imagine how much money and worry we'd save ourselves if we stopped caring what kind of car we drove! and why do we care? perfection. But there is no such thing, is there? And if there is, then everyone is perfect in their own way, right?

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.

Life is like an analogy.

The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.