Barbara Jordan
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Truth fears no questions.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Love is a great beautifier.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
I'm going to take a bath.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
How do I look ?
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Believe in yourself.
All you need is love.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
One million dollars !
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
It's never too late.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Do you think that there is a word that contains all of the vowels? Unquestionably.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Love is a verb.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
For one person to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the last test and proof, the work for which all else is but preparation.
You know, Billy. We blew it.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Love is not selfish.
Success is predictable.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
I am not an animal ! I am a human being. I am a man.
Never, never, never give up.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.