Jo Godwin Quotes

You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.

The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.

The only thing you have to fear more than failure is success.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.

Books are the depositary of everything that is most honourable to man.

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.

She is truly beautiful, but she doesn't have a beautiful face to match her beautiful heart. True beauty lies in the HEART.

If you are not pleased with what you see with your eyes, close your eyes and learn to see from your heart, this is where the true beauty lies.

True Christianity is NOT a religion, to be a christian, you don't have to be a christian

I do not have silver nor gold to give you, but i have a heart of gold to keep you.

The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark.

Do not wait, there will never be a right time, start from where you stand.

If you want to be successful. You must pay the price in advance.

Education entails the development of body and mind towards getting whatever you want without violating the rights of others.

You have to really believe that you can move mountains.

A prosperous person programmes prosperous thinking into his or her mind.

You should focus on those things that will lead you to succeed instead of wasting your time on trivial issues.

You have the power within you to make your world a reality.

I want him and me in this stolen moment. Collecting heartbeats. Falling in love for the millionth time.

I walked in and saw you dancing. I haven't caught my breath since.

A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

Great achievers see failure as a stepping stone to success.

Work with whatever tool you may have at your disposal, and you shall find better tool as you go ahead.

So many businesses today have wind-up because of fear of failing.

A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.

Good teaching is l/4th preparation and 3/4ths theatre.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

You must be a starter and a finisher, the slogan “press on” has solved a lot of problem.

The most essential step in marketing your services is selecting an occupation you can throw yourself into wholeheartedly.

A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.

Extraordinary circumstances often bring along with them extraordinary strength. No man knows, till the experiment, what he is capable of effecting.

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.