Jocko Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes. — Derek Bok

Allah, Most High, has truly blessed us. He has created just for us the mysterious spirit that He has breathed into us and by so doing distinguished us from all other physical creation. He has adorned us with our incomparable intellect, which further distinguishes us from all else in this creation. What other creature on this planet -another gift He has blessed us with- can even begin to create the likes of this Internet? Will we not stop, give thanks to our Merciful and Generous Lord? Will we not stop and realize how precious our lives are and begin to show each other more love, mercy, kindness and empathy? Will we not stop, take time, and reflect? — Imam Zaid Shakir

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song. — Michael Jackson

And these children
that you spit on
as they try to change their worlds
are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware
of what they're going through ... — David Bowie

When the storm comes,
the short-sighted get soaked,
the intelligent run for cover,
and the prudent pull out their umbrellas. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I want you so much I want to be you too. — Ernest Hemingway,

Remember: the Word is God and God is the Word. You are what your words are. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me. — Mark Harmon

Ephemeral and useless, flowers exemplify the gratuitousness of occasions that mean expenses and luxury; blooming in vases, doomed to a rapid death, flowers are ceremonial bonfires, incense and myrrh, libation, sacrifice. — Simone De Beauvoir

Real success isn't just a matter of chance or choice. What really matters, before you make a choice, is that you clarify and choose what really matters. — Tony Dovale

iconoclastically. — Susan Cain

Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial. — Tom Robbins

Which sucks, because I want candy. I would've done anything to have candy. I want candy to make me scream his name as we coupled for the first time. — Belle Aurora

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. — Claire Tomalin

I don't really want to have a baby; I want to want to have a baby." I longed to feel like everybody else, but I had to face the fact that I did not. — Jeanne Safer