Alphabet Quotes

Older people sit down and ask,

What is it?

but the boy asks,

What can I do with it?

Give the ones you love wings to fly,

roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

To keep our faces toward change and behave like

free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

We can make market forces work better for

the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism.

To win big,

you sometimes have to take big risks.

The most I can do

for my friend is

simply be his friend.

You have no facial expression.

The secret of life,

though,

is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,

but he is brave five minutes longer.

Where there is righteousness in the heart,

there is harmony in the house;

when there is harmony in the house,

there is order in the nation;

when there is order in the nation,

there is peace in the world.

Men love to wonder,

and that is the seed of science.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those

who have no capacity for living now.

The best way to cheer yourself

up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,

or sailed to an uncharted land,

or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

A person's a person,

no matter how small.

Never retreat.

Never explain.

Get it done

and

let them howl

Benjamin Jowett

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Fear will never stop me from doing what is right.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think

you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.