Compulsions Quotes

The unleashed power of the atom has changed

everything save our modes of thinking and

we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

The only thing you have in your life is time.

A woman is the only thing

I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Knowledge is the only immortality.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

When you want something,

all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

That our government should have been maintained in its original

form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at.

It had many props to support it through that period,

which now are decayed and crumbled away.

Through that period,

it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now,

it is understood to be a successful one.

Metaphors have a way of

holding the most truth

in the least space.

I believe in hard work,

and I believe in patience and learning from mistakes.

That all men are equal is a proposition which,

at ordinary times,

no sane individual has ever given his assent.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Don’t just teach your children to read…

teach them to question what they read.

People will come to love their oppression,

to adore the technologies

that undo their capacities to think.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club

and in every minor league.

With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life,

we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in.

In baseball or out,

we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality

we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

History is the version of past events

that people have decided to agree upon.

If I had to live my life over again,

I’d live it as a woman and follow my dreams.

The thing you fear most has no power.

Your fear of it is what has the power.

Facing the truth really will set you free.