"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled."

-- Barack Obama

#Money Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Focus Quotes

“You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.”
“With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.”

Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd
“My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Jan 01, 2012
“My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.”
“My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.”
“I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.”

Source : Letter to Ellis Gray Loring, 1843.
“You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.”

Source : Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.6, Faber & Faber
“I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down and now is that time. I want to thank Temple University, its fans and community for allowing me to do what I love for so long. It has never been a job for me, but a passion.”

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