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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When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
I love you - those three words have my life in them.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Don't quit.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
One drink's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
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.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
There are no gains without pains.
Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go !
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Kind words conquer.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape !
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Things do not change we change.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Love is like the wild rose-briar. Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly ?
We'll always have Paris.
We can only learn to love by loving.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
If thou must love me, let it be for nought, except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile, her look, her way of speaking gently, for a trick of thought that falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought a sense of pleasant ease on such a day. For these things in themselves, beloved, may be changed, or change for thee, and love so wrought, may be unwrought so.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
My friends are my estate.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
I like to watch.
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
I'm an excellent driver.
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 wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Go ahead, make my day.
Hey, Bud, lets party !
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Ability is sexless.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
I'm king of the world !
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
A bold onset is half the battle.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.