"Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles."

#Determination Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Way Quotes

“We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to transform a defeat into something else, something new, something strong. All the good stories, all the people we remember are the ones who do this, who make victories out of their failures. Because the victories teach nothing. The victories are not useful. They are often dangerous.”
“I wasn't somebody who raised his finger and then talked in a hushed voice. I always shouted.”
“The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.”
“Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.”
“I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.”
“I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.”
“Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.”

Source : "Me and my travels". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2006.

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