Chartacter Quotes

Men love to wonder,

and that is the seed of science.

Change is the law of life.

And those who look only to the past or present

are certain to miss the future.

You can’t be insecure and successful at the same time.

Fight for the things that you care about,

but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The world is made up of two kinds of people:

those who do and those who complain.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until

they are too heavy to be broken.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets.

It is hard to fail,

but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The people themselves,

and not their servants,

can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The more you can increase fear of drugs,

crime, welfare, immigration, and aliens,

the more you control all of the people.

I once wanted to become an atheist,

but I gave up — they have no holidays.

Knock me down nine times,

but I get up ten.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Upon the subject of education,

not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it,

I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we,

as a people, can be engaged in.

Two roads diverged in a wood,

and I—I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

True leadership is rooted in accountability and integrity.

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent

upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil

and in the proportionable amount of the same

which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language,

and next year’s words await another voice.