Compulsions Quotes

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

We make the future sustainable

when we invest in the poor,

not when we insist on their suffering.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

Public service is the highest duty of a citizen.

Hold fast to dreams,

for if dreams die,

life is a broken

winged bird that cannot fly.

You can’t cheat the grind;

it knows how much you’ve invested.

We are going to fight racism and economic exploitation

at the same time.

When you want something,

all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

I try to buy stock in businesses

that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them.

I am only one,

but still I am one.

I cannot do everything,

but still I can do something.

Be like water making its way through cracks.

Do not be assertive,

but adjust to the object,

and you shall find a way around or through it.

Dreams without goals remain dreams.

Embrace your flaws

they make you human.

If you always put limits on everything you do,

physical or anything else,

it will spread into your work and into your life.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have

courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh,

how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.

If I were two faced,

would I be wearing this one?