"I am a sprinter, and I love to go fast. It's very difficult for me to be patient and follow a race strategy or conserve energy."

-- Allyson Felix

#Race Quotes #Energy Quotes #Patient Quotes

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.”
“There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.”
“Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.”
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”
“The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
“We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.”
“Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.”

Source : "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography". Book by Michael Parker, 2009.

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