Opencourseware Stanford Quotes & Sayings

A leader has fear but he knows how to overcome it. — Debasish Mridha

I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them. — Kara Walker

You're never as smart as you think you are when you are winning and never as dumb as you feel when you are losing. — Michael Hyatt

Triumph belongs to thought. Change your thinking and you change your life! You become new! — J.P. Vaswani

You try to be young, maybe you like to have a few toys, but it's not the most important thing in life. — Diego Della Valle

The arrow will not always find the mark intended. — Horace

If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency, that's all they're gonna get. — Bill Cosby

But if that's not enough, then consider this: if the Night's Watch are truly brothers, then Lord Commander Mormont was our father. He lived and died for the Watch and he was betrayed by his own men, stabbed in the back by cowards. He deserved far better. — Jon Snow

It's true I'm male and have some power, but I never asked to be born male. Maybe being male is like being born a predator, and maybe the only right thing for the predator to do, if it sympathizes with smaller animals and won't accept that it was born to kill them, is to betray its nature and starve to death. But maybe it's like something else - like being born with more money than others. Then the right thing to do becomes a more interesting social question. — Jonathan Franzen

We tell market researchers that we don't mind paying more for green benefits but only a minority of zealots ever really will. A campaign that delivers more widespread green behaviour is going to need to be cleverer that that. — Chris Powell

belief in yourself that you can do it, and the ambitious dedication to doing what needs to be done to do it. — Ervin DeCastro

There are some women, Philip, good women very possibly, who through no fault of their own impel disaster. Whatever they touch, somehow turns to tragedy. — Daphne Du Maurier

You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he were a complete idiot, drooling at the mouth, he'd still be a better person then you. — Catherine Cookson

The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature. — Samael Aun Weor