Motivational Customized Quotes & Sayings

These poor beasts are driven solely by their need to survive and to feed. It is their nature, and their nature has made them predictable. But man, on the other hand, has the capacity to change his nature. Man is the only animal that can destroy the world. Beasts live only in the present, but humans have the capacity to live for the future, to lay down plans for their children and grandchildren, plans that can take years, decades, even centuries, to mature. — Michael Scott

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order — John Dewey

Troy sat down next to Sherri, examining her tray. "Are you going to eat that?" he asked. "I know what went in there." He smiled, looking mysterious. Troy's mother worked in the cafeteria.
Sherri immediately dropped the turkey roll. — Amy LaPalme

The good things aren't a movie. There isn't enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There — Cheryl Strayed

You become a man not when you reach a certain age, but when you reach a certain state of mind. — Habeeb Akande

Dharma is easiest to spot by its absence: the Mahabharata employs the pedagogical technique of teaching about dharma via its opposite, adharma — Gurcharan Das

Only grabbing the necessary tools and getting to work, you'll build the path you'll use to get where you wanna go. — Pamela Nicole

Emotional baggage doesn't fit in the overhead compartment. You have to pay extra to check it. — Juliet Blackwell

You sound almost bitter about it."
"I am. Life is a cheat. A tease. If you're born into a happy or comfortable existence, then you grow attached to it and some day it's taken from you for one reason or another. And if you're born into suffering, then things are that much worse. No matter how your life begins or unfolds, as Jim Morrison so poetically put it, 'No one here gets out alive. — Zack Love

It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it. — James Patterson

I think the American Dream says that anything can happen if you work hard enough at it and are persistent, and have some ability. The sky is the limit to what you can build, and what can happen to you and your family. — Sanford I. Weill

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. — Kate Bush