Brighten Your Mood Quotes & Sayings

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. — Colin Powell

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. — Blaise Pascal

I gave it everything in the last 20 minutes. I knew that I still had the energy, that I was ahead of the mark. I felt euphoric - it was the last 20 minutes of my sporting career. — Jens Voigt

It's not always easy to find the motivation to push yourself to higher limits. But when you surround yourself with people who inspire you, you'll find that their attitudes and their outlook on life are contagious. You will learn from their mistakes and their successes. You will gain a wealth of knowledge and wisdom, which will only help you grow and get you closer to your own goals. — Anonymous

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus. — Jessica Savitch

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time ... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living. — Jason Robert Brown

I am not a desperate, unsteady child who throws his trust around. I am not damaged. — Veronica Roth

At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled. — Ayn Rand

Mike Dukakis, you know, he can't get a job mowing lawns. — Mitt Romney

unselfing themselves — Henri Cole

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: I survived. Isn't that what matters? — Melissa Marr

I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost. — Stella McCartney

Wishful thinking, that time might heal - it seldom healed anything, only making scars that were often tender to the touch, and ugly. — Charles Todd

I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting. — Saffron Mello Castro