"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."

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Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1951). “Commencement Addresses”

Nicholas Murray Butler

#Motivational Quotes #Positive Quotes #Courage Quotes

“I do believe in a God, yes. But that's as far as I want to discuss. If I get too detailed on some things that are personal like that, it gives people an easier way to alienate themselves from me and that's all they are looking for now.”
“Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.”
“We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.”
“I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.”
“Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.”
“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.”
“A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.”
“In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder”

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