Hidni Quotes

Few of us can stand prosperity.

Another man's, I mean.

Never contract friendship

with a man that is not

better than thyself.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have

courage to lose sight of the shore.

He who molds the public sentiment...

makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless

if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

You have to be willing to fail to succeed.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

I want to leave a legacy of laughter.

I’m not concerned with awards.

I’m concerned with respect.

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.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as

spending our lives running from it.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say,

what your teachers say,

what society says,

but to figure out what your heart,

calling is and to be led by that.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;

he who loves no one has no woes.

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

There is nothing wrong with this,

except that it ain't so.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself

a refuge from almost all miseries of life.

An eye for an eye…

we are all blind.

To win big,

you sometimes have to take big risks.