The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.
Barack ObamaIf you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
Fyodor DostoevskyThe love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert HubbardIt is not more vacation we need – it is more vocation.
Eleanor RooseveltThe world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Thomas CarlyleThe work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas CarlyleJesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.
Joyce MeyerFirst and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
Brene BrownReal living is living for others.
Bruce LeeWork gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen HawkingYour own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
King SolomonThey might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily DickinsonLook, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.
Joe BidenIf you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
Stephen CoveyIt is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Winston ChurchillWe have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. KennedyAt what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham LincolnHate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
Eleanor RooseveltFiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
Alice WalkerAmerica is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
Alexander Graham BellMy mother always wanted to give back.
Lady GagaJustice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.
Hunter S. ThompsonIt was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston ChurchillThe greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian TracySometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert SchweitzerA new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Jesus ChristA man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas CarlyleA bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack LondonI know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald ReaganI have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
Anthony HopkinsAmerica was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
James MadisonIt was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark TwainI think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
Lou HoltzThe decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOne may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Albert EinsteinHerb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob MarleyLoyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Mark TwainMy heart aches for America and its deceived people.
Billy GrahamNo lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
John RuskinWe need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.
Joel OsteenIn a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWhen you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.
Kendrick LamarThe people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
Benjamin DisraeliKindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel JohnsonDeath is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George EliotEach generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
Albert CamusThe only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
Bill GatesThere is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.
Barack ObamaIf aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.
Stephen Hawking‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William ShakespeareIf you wished to be loved, love.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSince the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Audrey HepburnThe wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
ChanakyaBetter do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia EarhartThe greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
William JamesEvery person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNow, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
Barack ObamaT stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.
Mr. TI happen to believe there is evil in the world.
John Kennedy