Death Quotes

Don’t set goals based on what you can do;

set them based on what you can become.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know

how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding

that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

The differences between

friends cannot but

reinforce their friendship.

I have always been an old

line Henry Clay Whig.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

To live without hope is to cease to live.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job…

I find my greatest pleasure,

and so my reward,

in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal,

or acts to improve the lot of others,

he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won't forgive you if you lie.

In a world that’s changing really quickly,

the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men;

true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Be careless in your dress if you must,

but keep a tidy soul.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Believe in your flyness,

conquer your shyness.

With the new day comes

new strength and new thoughts

If men were angels,

no government would be necessary.