Hidni Quotes

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday,

not to who someone else is today.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is

to refresh them with new ones.

A noble character is the highest possible attainment of humanity.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life.

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

I’m not a fan of the mainstream.

Success is not an accident,

success is actually a choice.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty

as well as by the abuses of power.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve,

not by the desire to beat others

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task

remaining before us, that from these honored dead

we take increased devotion to that cause for

which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

No president who performs his duties faithfully

and conscientiously can have any leisure.

When we remember we are all mad,

the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I’m patient with people,

but I don’t waste time.

All men make mistakes,

but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong.

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.

Liberty,

when it begins to take root,

is a plant of rapid growth.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I learned to read at age three,

and soon discovered there was a whole world,

to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more,

but those giving more.