Robin Williams Quotes

There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

Robin Williams

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• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Crazy
  • Meat
  • Call

• The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Generation
  • Feminist

• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Universe

• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Patience
  • Trees

• Men need to live and breathe women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Men
  • Women
  • Live

• What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

  

  Eric Liu
  • Together
  • True
  • Diversity

• For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Constitution

• The timing for directing is usually because it takes that long to develop a piece and then do pre-production and then post-production. It takes at least a couple of years. I prefer directing to doing other things. Directing and writing seem to be infinitely more creative

  

  George Clooney
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Couple

• The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Revenge
  • Morality

• A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

  

  William James
  • Differences

• These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

  

  Aristotle
  • Power
  • Royalty
  • Dictator

• In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • War
  • Peace
  • Names

• I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Important
  • Care
  • Makeup

• What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Happiness
  • Angel
  • Too Much

• There’s no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Shame
  • Shot
  • Not Giving