Archived Quotes

Think like a queen.

A queen is not afraid to fail.

Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

One must judge the past by the present to understand the future.

You never know how strong you are

until being strong is your only choice.

All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

One of the very important

characteristics of a student

is to question.

Let the students ask questions.

I don't want to be a part of any club

that would have me as a member.

Why need I volumes,

if one word suffice?

The assertion that 'all men are created equal'

was of no practical use in effecting our separation from

Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that,

but for future use.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days

assertive and aggressive and the degree to

which we had to be that way depended on where you were.

I had to be.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education

and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry

shall become much more general than at present,

and should be gratified to have it in my power

to contribute something to the advancement of

any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate

the happy period.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight

the hardest battle which anyone can imagine

until you reach your destination.

The pain now is part of the happiness then.

That’s the deal.

When nature has work to be done,

she creates a genius to do it.