Chartacter Quotes

To be good is noble;

but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

He who makes a beast of himself

gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

Over the years,

I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly;

to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher

in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

Pure mathematics is,

in its way,

the poetry of logical ideas.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

What can be asserted without evidence

can be dismissed without evidence.

Presentation matters,

expression matters.

You shall know the truth,

and the truth shall make you mad.

One good thing about music,

when it hits you,

you feel no pain.

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.

We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference,

accepting the false pattern set up by

the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

Politics is the art of the possible,

but sometimes the impossible can be achieved.

Begin to be now what you will be

hereafter

Design is the fundamental soul of a human

made creation.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

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.

It kills me to lose.

If I'm a troublemaker,

and I don't think that my temper makes me one,

then it's because I can't stand losing.

That's the way I am about winning,

all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth

is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves

when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep

into our own natures.

Teaching is a very noble

profession that shapes

the character, caliber,

and future of an individual.

If the people remember me

as a good teacher, that will

be the biggest honour for me.