Janae Kroczaleski Quotes & Sayings

Remember that nearly all extraordinary accomplishments began by overcoming a series of challenges that discourage and tempt us to quit, before we succeed. Those that maintain faith, stay committed, follow through and keep moving forward are the few that achieve everything they want in life. Be one of the few. — Hal Elrod

This was something I'd never been trained for. There were no military strategies or drills to prepare me for the daily torment of not killing someone. — Mary E. Pearson

There's nothing like confidence. Your bosses will appreciate it. — Mary Carillo

Innumerable soldiers have told me they don't want to be thanked for their service and they don't want to be seen as heroes (or, for that matter, villains). They want to be respected for the job they did and the pride they took in doing it well. — Elizabeth Heaney

It's bad to grow old before your time. It's worse to not grow at all within your mind, — Stabley Victor Paskavich

Archbishop Mannix was possessed of the clearest intellect I have ever encountered. He prayed regularly for five hours and more each day, this in the midst of a life of intense activity. When he was well over ninety, I once asked him about the precise quality of the Faith which had sustained him. His answer? 'My Faith has always been like a thin silken thread, fraying perpetually at the brink of a precipice over which I hang. Yet the thread has never snapped. — Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria

Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough. — E. O. Wilson

You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it. — Adrian Rogers

I'd like to tour with the Backstreet Boys because I love them so much. — Jessica Simpson

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? — Katharine Whitehorn

We also know that there is a mindset that helps people cope well with setbacks, points them to good strategies, and leads them to act in their best interest. — Carol S. Dweck

It's one thing to bet on red or black and know that you are betting on red or black. It's another to bet on a form of red and not to know it. — Michael Lewis

I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11. — Amity Gaige

Did you win your sword fight?"
"Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world."
"And you wrote the software."
"Yeah. That, too," Hiro says. — Neal Stephenson