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Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
Strength
,
Hurt
,
Character
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
Best
,
Mistakes
,
Sometimes
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Michael Jordan
Here
,
Used
,
Stop
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci
Life
,
Simple
,
Pretty
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
Succeed
,
Jump
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire
Life
,
Power
,
Through
I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
Marilyn Monroe
Good
,
Men
,
Friends
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby
Father
,
Child
,
Times
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
Plato
God
,
Wise
,
Him
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
Steve Jobs
Design
,
Understand
,
Takes
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
Mind
,
May
,
Wine
A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
Henry Ford
Good
,
Bad
,
Market
Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.
Liam Neeson
Time
,
True
,
Joy
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire
Love
,
Same
,
Away
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Marianne Williamson
Past
,
Understand
,
Forgive
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates
Design
,
Simple
,
Down
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Battle
,
Two
,
Quarrel
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Epicurus
God
,
Men
,
Evil
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
Robert H. Schuller
Dreams
,
True
,
Rich
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams
Life
,
Moment
,
Memory
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
Risk
,
Fail
,
Taking
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Give
,
Grace
,
Hesitation
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
Eyes
,
Seen
,
Dogs
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Someone
,
Nothing
,
Grief
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Others
,
Troubles
,
Tear
I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
Samuel L. Jackson
Respect
,
Anger
,
Angry
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Happen
,
Last
,
Knock
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Others
,
Tear
,
Dried
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
David Wilkerson
Great
,
God
,
Forget
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.
Jonathan Kozol
Society
,
Today
,
Understand
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