The best Quotes by Charles Kettering

The best Quotes by Charles Kettering

Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 25, 1958) was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

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Fear Giving Up Ocean Ships

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

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Biden has won so many times in Michigan now.
He's legally required to change his name to Ohio State.

There's nothing wrong with Ohio
Except the snow and the rain

Bowling for Soup - Ohio (Come Back to Texas), Album: A Hangover You Don’t Deserve

East Coast style + Midwest charm = Ohio girl

Coming from southeast Ohio it's a very impoverished area and the poverty rate is almost two times the national average.

Joe Burrow - December 2019

Ohio girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

Home is where the heart is and the heart is in Ohio.

If you don't like the weather in Southern Ohio, just wait 15 minutes.

Ohio girls have that inner glow that makes them more beautiful than any other girl.

If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, "pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio."

Wilbur Wright

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

Dana Scully in The X-Files

Fear Conspiracy Theories

Admitting your fears is the first and most difficult step in overcoming them.

Tenzin in The Legend of Korra

And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!

Alfred in Batman - Begins

23

Giving Up Beginning

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

Magic Johnson

19

Ambition Giving Up

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Wisdom of the Sands

15

Desire Ocean Ships

The human world... it's a mess.

Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

11

Tyrion: "If the ship goes down, I'll go with it."
Varys: "That is good to hear. Though I'm sure many captains say the same while their ship is afloat."

Lord Varys in Game of Thrones - Season 2 Episode 9

Captains always favor the ship over the crew.

Pyke, the Bloodharbor Ripper in League of Legends

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

Christian McCaffrey

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Robert Anton Wilson

Change Conservative

Who told you, you have to live like today when you want to live today like tomorrow?

Scarlet Crover (Artist)

5

I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

David Levithan in Every Day

2

Memories Yesterday

Things never happen the same way twice.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

33

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different...

14

Every Star that you see in the Sky might be a sun to someone.

1

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist knows it.

Robert Oppenheimer

4

Optimism Pessimism

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Robert Oppenheimer

1

Nuclear Weapons

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

6

Knowledge Intelligence

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

4

Intelligence Silence

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

Experience Failures & Mistakes

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

1

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

1

Life Motivation

Ideas can only be useful when they come to life in many minds.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature has to be felt.

Alexander von Humboldt

Nature & Environment

I am not the least afraid to die.

Charles Darwin - last words - April 19th 1882

3

Death Last Words

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

1

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

Richard Feynman

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman

Religion Science Doubt

Cogito, ergo sum. I think; therefore I am.

René Descartes

2

Thinking Latin Phrases

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

René Descartes

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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