Donald Quotes

I was relentless, even in the face of total lack of encouragement, because much more often than you'd think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.

As long as we have faith in each other, and trust in God, then there is no goal, at all, beyond our reach. There is no dream too large, no task too great.

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

Leadership is action, not position

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

Treat people how you want to be treated.

In America, establishment politicians have betrayed our workers, they've betrayed our borders and, most of all, they've betrayed our freedoms.

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.

One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation."

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

We're going to protect Christianity. We don't have to be politically correct about it.

If you hang around with losers you become a loser

We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.

What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

There are people who wish to draw attention to themselves by attacking me

Relaxation means releasing all concern and tension and letting the natural order of life flow through one's being.

We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.

What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.

Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

That's one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some of the African-Americans - maybe I'll get in trouble again - they don't want to help anybody.

In fact, the ultimate speculation we can make about the nature of Divinity is that Divinity is NO-THING which we can know. In Hebrew, the word for no-thing (nothing) is AIN.

Some people were born just so they could be buried.

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

And without delay, turn to the Lord. Exercise all of the faith you have in Him. Let Him share your burden. Allow His grace to lighten your load.

Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.

Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't racing. Life is the metaphor for the race.

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

Without passion, you don't have any energy, and without energy, you simply have nothing

It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before