Alphabet Quotes

Why do you all push us around?

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,

it is time to pause and reflect.

In skating over thin ice

our safety is in our speed.

Every stumble is not a fall,

and every fall does not mean failure.

Political courage means standing up for your beliefs,

no matter the opposition.

I'm always asked 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

It's not that I'm so smart,

it's just that I stay with problems longer.

If you can't explain it simply,

you don't understand it well enough.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

A revolution is a struggle to the death

between the future and the past.

I think if we go back and check our record,

the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than

patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

Vegetables are

a must on a diet.

I suggest carrot cake,

zucchini bread,

and pumpkin pie

I had three chairs

in my house;

one for solitude,

two for friendship,

three for society.

Riches don’t make a man rich,

they only make him busier.

This is a competition,

not a recital.

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

When you're the most successful person in your family,

in your neighborhood,

and in your town,

everybody thinks you're the First National Bank,

and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

There is nothing deep down inside us

except what we have put there ourselves

Richard Rorty

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars,

or sailed to an uncharted land,

or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

When you receive criticism, ask,

Are they right?

All we have to decide is what to do with the time

that is given to us.