Quotes of Jesse Owens

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You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Long at that moment.

- Jesse Owens

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“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. ”

- Demetri Martin

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried. ”

- Rosamund Hodge

“ Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles. ”

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“ Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ”

- Fried Astaire

“ Love is blind, they saybut isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

“ Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. ”

- E. L. Simpson

“ Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes. ”

- Steve Backley

“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ It is now how good you are, it’s how good you want to be. ”

- Unknown

“ Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla