Eleanor Holmes Norton
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
I'm here to fight for truth, justice, and the american way.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
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.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
Act or accept.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Be all you can be.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
I can levitate birds, but nobody cares.
Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
We belong dead.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
Love is strong yet delicate. It can be broken. To truly love is to understand this. To be in love is to respect this.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
They're here !
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Live your life and forget your age.
Success is never wondering what if.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Tough times never last but tough people do.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
A martini. Shaken, not stirred.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
The road to success is always under construction.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Success is the child of audacity.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
All mankind love a lover.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Wouldja do me a favor, Harry ? Drop dead !
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore !
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.