Best Quotes Around the World

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known – the plantations – because they attempted to exercise their ‚democratic‘ right to vote.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

It’s a business you go into because you’re an egocentric. It’s a very embarrassing profession.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of – of American capitalism.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

I think America has always been polarized.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.