390 quotes found
“There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.”
“As you go along your road in life you will if you aim high enough also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem have courage still-and persevere.”
“When a just cause reaches its flood-tide as ours has done ... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.”
“The world may take your reputation from you but it cannot take your character.”
“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.”
“I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
“Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate As the voyage along thru life 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.”
“No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.”
“Whatever you want in life other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.”
“To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
“We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.”
“Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.”
“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do what no other can do.”
“I think God rarely gives to one man or one set of men more than one great moral victory to win.”
“Truth has beauty power and necessity.”
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self”
“Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house but you cannot build the house without them.”
“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer is to keep your soul alive.”
“The moment that any life however good stifles you you may be sure it isn't your real life.”
“We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.”
