Nail Quotes

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60.
They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Ambition has one heel nailed in well,
though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
- Lao Tzu

I would never want to be a member of a group
whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

Dependence begets subservience and venality,
suffocates the germ of virtue,
and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- Thomas Jefferson

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Whether it be true or not, I can say for one
that I have no other so great as that
of being truly esteemed of my fellow men,
by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
- Abraham Lincoln

Ambition is pitiless.
Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
- Anonymous

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden

We can't control the impressions others form about us,
and the effort to do so only debases our character.
- Epictetus

We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.
- Yoda, character in Star Wars movie

Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Judge your natural character
by what you do in your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

Imagine for yourself a character,
a model personality whose example you determine to follow,
in private as well as in public.
- Epictetus

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

Our actions are constrained by fear of reprisal,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I've developed a new philosophy...
I only dread one day at a time.
- the character Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts comic

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

To deny the facts would be illogical.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid

Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series

The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid

Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie

Better learn balance. Balance is key.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)

You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo

You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

One strength of the communist system of the East
is that it has some of the character of a religion
and inspires the emotions of a religion.
- Albert Einstein

The function of education is to teach one
to think intensively and to think critically.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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