Randy Pausch Quotes

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.

We can now destroy or we can cherish-the choice is ours.

Work hard, play fair, be kind to all living creatures, and take a moment to just sit back and breathe.

But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that saves my neck when I get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. Just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. The hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you.

If you're losing, just be a man, be a man and lose as a man. Don't pretend that you are injured and then you start running around and start to hit winners, and then all of a sudden you pull the hands up in the air after winning the match. I mean, what kind of sportsman are you? What kind of man are you?

There is no strength without justice.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing.