Favorite Quotations

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1. If there is no struggle,

there is no progress.

~Frederick Douglass

2. You will not be punished for your anger.

You will be punished by your anger.

~Buddha

3. I hated every minute of training, but I said,

'Don't quit. Suffer now and

live the rest of your life as a champion.'

~Muhammad Ali

4. The roots of education are bitter,

but the fruit is sweet.

~Aristotle

5. I said to my soul, be still,

and wait without hope

For hope would be hope for the wrong thing;

~T.S. Eliot

6. Nothing in life is to be feared,

it is only to be understood.

Now is the time to understand more,

so that we may fear less.

~Marie Curie

7. History will have to record

that the greatest tragedy

of this period of social transition

was not the strident clamor of the bad people,

but the appalling silence of the good people.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

8. To defend oneself against a fear

is simply to insure

that one will, one day, be conquered by it;

fears must be faced.

~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

9. Mistakes are always forgivable,

if one has the courage to admit them.

~Bruce Lee

10. Show respect to all people,

but grovel to none.

~Tecumseh

11. True knowledge exists in knowing

that you know nothing.

~Socrates

12. He who has a why to live

can bear almost any how.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

13. I know where I'm going

and I know the truth,

and I don't have to be what you want me to be.

I'm free to be what I want.

~Muhammad Ali

14. I've learned that people will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did,

but people will never forget

how you made them feel.

~Maya Angelou

15. My great concern is not

whether you have failed,

but whether you are content with your failure.

~Abraham Lincoln

16. Without education,

you’re not going anywhere in this world.

~ Malcolm X

17. When you are content to be simply yourself

and don't compare or compete,

everybody will respect you.

~Lao Tzu

18. Never do anything against conscience,

even if the state demands it.

~Albert Einstein

19. You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

~Malcolm X

20. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies,

but just as much to stand up to our friends.

~J.K. Rowling

21. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens

can change the world;

indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

~Margaret Mead

22. Education is an admirable thing,

but it is well to remember from time to time

that nothing that is worth knowing

can be taught.

~Oscar Wilde

23. A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

~Mark Twain

24. Failure happens all the time.

It happens every day in practice.

What makes you better is how you react to it.

~Mia Hamm

25. The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new,

so we must think anew and act anew.

~Abraham Lincoln

26. Whoever fights monsters

should see to it that in the process

he does not become a monster.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,

the abyss will gaze back into you.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

27. Only the wisest and stupidest

of men never change.

~Confucius

28. All truths are easy to understand

once they are discovered;

the point is to discover them.

~Galileo Galilei

29. We live in a fantasy world,

a world of illusion.

The great task in life is to find reality.

~Iris Murdoch

30. We draw our strength

from the very despair

in which we have been forced to live.

We shall endure.

~Cesar Chavez

31. In the depth of winter I finally learned

that there was in me an invincible summer.

~Albert Camus

32. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

~Anne Frank

33. Holding on to anger

is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;

you are the one who gets burned.

~Buddha

34. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.

~Mahatma Gandhi

35. Happy families are all alike;

every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

~Leo Tolstoy

36. Between stimulus and response there is a space.

In that space is our power to choose our response.

In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

~Viktor E. Frankl

37. The only way to deal with an unfree world

is to become so absolutely free

that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

~Albert Camus

38. Perfection is achieved,

not when there is nothing more to add,

but when there is nothing left to take away.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

39. I can accept failure,

everyone fails at something.

But I can't accept not trying.

~Michael Jordan

40. It does not require many words to speak the truth.

~Chief Joseph

41. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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