"Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'"

-- Marilyn Monroe

#Inspiring Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Ambition Quotes

“We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.”

Source : Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.45
“At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.”
“Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.”
“The best pilots fly more than the others; that's why they're the best.”

Source : Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam
“When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.”
“More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.”
“You don't want to help the young too much,it will just weaken them and they'll only resent it.”
“Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.”

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