quotes and sayings about being yourself

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. ~Martin Golding



There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions. ~Pen Densham, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves



Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller



I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932



I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time. ~Robertson Davies



When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. ~George Raveling



We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Long A: No, but here is where I am and am not:



When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967



That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on a ball. ~Bill Veeck, 1976



Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~Horace Mann



A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again. ~Author Unknown



We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid. ~Gerard Vanderhaar



She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. ~Frank Deford



Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. ~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922



The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley



No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away. ~Author Unknown, "The Scrappers Creed"



If there's no chocolate in heaven, I'm not going. ~Author Unknown