Make Quotes

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.

It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.