Arlen Specter Quotes

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

I wasn't really happy with the way 2008 turned out for me. I wanted to change some things.

Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.

I do have a lot of resolutions, but I don't really make them at New Year's much.

Everyone wants to start the year off well.

New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Writing down goals makes you think of what is achievable. It really makes you reflect on what you are today.

My birthday is in August - right before September, so I have that "back to school" feeling ingrained in me so that time of year is when I usually do personal goals or resolutions.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

I want to learn and challenge myself and grow.

One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

I'm constantly working towards my personal improvement.

With the new year comes a refueled motivation to improve on the past one.

I try to challenge myself.

I want to keep getting better, being a great teammate and try to keep learning from our guys and help as much as possible. I'm not satisfied with where I'm at.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday.

When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?

I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.