Archived Quotes

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death,

but a life without purpose.

After two years at UCLA,

I decided to leave.

I was convinced that no amount of education

would help a black man get a job.

Regarding marriage,

it

somehow,

it didn't happen.

One fellow in such a

big family not getting married

is not an issue.

A purpose of human life,

no matter who is controlling it,

is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world.

If you do so,

you are insulting yourself.

Women should be respected as well!

Generally speaking,

men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world,

so why shouldn't women have their share?

In the depth of winter,

I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Peace cannot be kept by force;

it can only be achieved by understanding.

We are all Republicans,

we are all Federalists.

Leadership requires courage to make

difficult decisions.

Be thankful for what you have;

you'll end up having more.

If you concentrate on

what you don't have,

you will never,

ever have enough.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities

because it is the quality that guarantees all others.

Until you make the unconscious conscious,

it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana,

in my eighth year... It was a wild region,

with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.

There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,

I did not know much.

Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...

but that was all.

I know where I'm going

and I know the truth,

and I don't have to be

what you want me to be.

I'm free to be what I want.

Whatever the cost of our libraries,

the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Your talent is God's gift to you What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Success doesn’t come from luck;

it comes from hard work and staying true to yourself.