#mo

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#bed #character #commitment #discipline #enabled

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties? ↗

— Roman Payne

#ancient-greeks #balance #beauties #cycles #europe

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#being #continues #earns #example #for example

The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better? ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#anything #because #better #however #important

The two designs are completely different. The first is totally futuristic, the second is more classical. You can of course get very excited about doing something completely out of the ordinary, just like the Olympic stadium in its time. But each to his or her own taste. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#classical #completely #course #designs #different

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago. ↗

— Boris Becker

#blind #cup #davis #davis cup #emotions

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else. ↗

— Gary Becker

#criminals #different #else #everyone #had

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#grant #i #most #nothing #than

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#birth #give #gleams #grave #instant

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#any #bad #chronicle #day #days