10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

Self

pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it,

we can never do anything wise in this world.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

There is just so much hurt,

disappointment,

and oppression one can take...

The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

When I played in the sandbox,

the cat kept covering me up.

It's tough to stay married.

My wife kisses the dog on the lips,

yet she won't drink from my glass.

I could tell my parents hated me.

My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service,

than the neglect of discipline;

for that discipline,

more than numbers,

gives one army,

the superiority over another.

Some day following the example,

of the United States of America,

there will be a United States of Europe.

There can be no greater error than to expector calculate,

upon real favors from nation to nation.

It is an illusion which experience must cure,

which a just pride ought to discard.

The alternate domination of one faction over another,

sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,

which in different ages and countries has perpetrated

the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane

cursing and swearing is a vice so mean

and low that every person of sense

and character detests and despises it.

Associate with men of good quality

if you esteem your own reputation;

for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

We should not look back unless

it is to derive useful lessons from past errors,

and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Labor to keep alive in your breast

that little spark of celestial fire,

called conscience.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Our faith comes in moments;

our vice is habitual.