Marion Wright Edelman
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
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But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
That love is all there is is all we know of love.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here ! This is the war room !
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
I think therefore I am
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.
The more I love myself the better I am able to love you.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces.
A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank... but the world may be a better place because I made a differ- ence in the life of a child.
All you need is love.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
The art of love, is largely the art of persistence.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Be Here Now.
Love is letting go of fear.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Honesty is the best image.
Well, nobody's perfect.
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
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The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die !
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.