Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at night. It was a downright foolish thing to say, because it made the people holding the hostages realize that they had an awful lot of influence over the United States.

Ted Koppel's Popular Quotes

It becomes increasingly easy, as you get older, to drown in nostalgia.

- Ted Koppel

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

- Ted Koppel

Donald Trump is, in effect, the Recruiter-in-Chief for ISIS. ISIS wants nothing more right now than to have the world divided into Judeo-Christian on…

- Ted Koppel

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend.

- Ted Koppel

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

- Ted Koppel

You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

- Ted Koppel

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common

- Ted Koppel

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

- Ted Koppel

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They sho…

- Ted Koppel