David > David's Quotes

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Chemical cheating will be decisively routed when fans become properly repelled by it. They will recoil in disgust when they understand that athletes who are chemically propelled to victory do not merely overvalue winning, they misunderstand why winning is properly valued.”
― George F. Will, Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball

“I cared about you too much,” said Dumbledore simply. “I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth,”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The thing about credit is that it’s not zero-sum. There’s room for everybody, and you’ll shine if other people are shining.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

“Success doesn’t measure a human being, effort does.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

“There’s a catch: as people get richer, they give more money in total, but they give smaller fractions of their annual income. In one study, psychologists demonstrated that merely thinking about socioeconomic status is enough to change the amount of charitable giving that we think is appropriate. When people thought about themselves as somewhere in the middle of the wealth ladder, they felt obligated to give 4.65 percent of their annual income to charity. But when they imagined themselves at the top of the ladder, they only reported an obligation to give 2.9 percent of their annual income to charity.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

“People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It’s foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.”
― Chloe Rattray, Sacré Noir

“Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.”
― Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here

“You meant the world to me. And if you didn't know that--if you couldn't see that--then that's how I'll start. Every day I'll show you, and every day I'll prove to you just how much you mean to me. How much you still mean to me.”
― Jay McLean, More Than Him

“Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come.”
― Kemi Sogunle

“... forgiveness is a four letter word: Love.”
― Elizabeth Marx, Binding Arbitration

“Reach into the past and remember the reasons you fell in love. Hold on to that, son, and cherish it. Then you must start moving forward again.”
― J.L. Berg, Ready for You

“We all make mistakes, everybody should be given a second-chance.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Ah, Peter, we who have made the great mistake, how differently we should all act at the second chance. But Solomon was right; there is no second chance, not for most of us. When we reach the window it is lock-out time. The iron bars are up for life.”
― James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Trust is one reason that givers are so susceptible to the doormat effect: they tend to see the best in everyone, so they operate on the mistaken assumption that everyone is trustworthy.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

“You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I should have made my meaning plainer,” said Professor McGonagall, turning at last to look Umbridge directly in the eyes. “He has achieved high marks in all Defense Against the Dark Arts tests set by a competent teacher.” Professor Umbridge’s smile vanished as suddenly as a lightbulb blowing. She”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“He knew what he was doing when he gave me the Deluminator, didn’t he? He--well,” Ron’s ears turned bright red and he became engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe, “he must’ve known I’d run out on you.”
“No,” Harry corrected him. “He must’ve known you’d always want to come back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“In 1970, American women were paid 59 cents for every dollar their male counterparts made. By 2010, women had protested, fought, and worked their butts off to raise that compensation to 77 cents for every dollar men made.10 As activist Marlo Thomas wryly joked on Equal Pay Day 2011, “Forty years and eighteen cents. A dozen eggs have gone up ten times that amount.”11”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead