Nikola Tesla Quotes

To have great designs is the privilege of great nations.

Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity of almost everybody.

I'm kind of like both of them: My mother grew up wanting to save the world, and my father grew up wanting to rule the world.

I don't necessarily feel like I'm American. I wouldn't know what that feels like.

I am a son of the Chechen people. I am no different from anyone else.

I write for my people.

I don't see myself only as a member of the New Orleans community. I see myself as a part of the human community. I see myself as a part of the community that's trying to put things in the world that add value to people's lives.

For me, psychologically, I am very much an Indian.

I think the beautiful part about Yao is that his main legacy won't be about the game. His legacy will be about helping people. His legacy will be taking on important world causes to better his world.

England is the pinnacle of any Englishman's career.

You want to play in the massive games. We all want to be out there, doing well for the country.

My parents are super excited that they've produced an Olympian. I don't think they ever would have imagined this would happen in a million years, so I hope I represent not only Team U.S.A., but the Japanese-American culture and my family as well.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

No one's more important than people.

I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.

We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.

As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.

Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.