"You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that."

-- Haile Gebrselassie

#Sports Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.”

Source : John Lanchester (2012). “Capital”, p.228, Faber & Faber
“Embrace your inner lunatic.”
“To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.”
“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
“Just imagine: I, a Premier, a Soviet representative, when I came here to this city, I was given a plan - a program of what I was to be shown and whom I was to meet here. But just now, I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked, 'Why not?' What is it, do you have rocket-launching pads there? I do not know”
“One life to live, live it to the fullest. If you have doubts or your gut feeling says something, listen. Don't waste time, time will waist u.”
“The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.”

Source : Minot Judson Savage (1884). “Poems of modern thought”
“I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.165, Faber & Faber

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