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"I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"There are mighty few people who think what they think they think." »Robert Henri
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"Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 4 scene 1
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"The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas." »Alfred Victor Vigny
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"Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid." »Basil King
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"Be bold and the mighty will follow." »Ted Walters
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"The humble suffer when the mighty disagree." »Phaedrus
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"I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me." »Egyptian Book of the Dead
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"This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one..." »George Bernard Shaw
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"It's hard to say who gets criticized the most, the successful person, or the failure but it's mighty close." »Joe Moore
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"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." »Bible, Proverbs, XLI, 32
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"A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored." »Lord Byron, Don Juan
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"One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life." »Alexander A. Bogomoletz
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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time." »Johann von Goethe
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"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds." »J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita",Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945
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"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." »Helen Keller
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"If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds." »Hindu Spiritual
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"The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere." »Magha
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"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince." »Plato
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"mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance." »Dax Ward
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"The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies." »John Dryden
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"Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light." »Felicia Hermans
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"To Tennessee Williams, children were 'no-neck monsters,' while William Wordsworth apotheosized the newborn infant as a 'Mighty Prophet Seer Blest' Most adults know the truth is somewhere in between." »Eloise Salholz
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"I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
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