Identity Quotes

Our lives are fashioned by our choices.

First we make our choices.

Then our choices make us.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more

if only they knew they were slaves.

Build a better mousetrap

and the world will beat a path to your door.

One person can change history.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed

with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of

our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with

everything imported?

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things

you cannot learn any other way.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

The best way out is always through.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than

walking alone in the light.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man

for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of,

and scoffer at, religion.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything

without losing your temper or your self confidence.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done,

it was done.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration

that if at the end...

I have lost every other friend on earth,

I shall at least have one friend left,

and that friend shall be down inside of me.

A chief event of life is the day in which

we have encountered a mind that startled us.

I love to travel,

but hate to arrive.

A man’s mind,

stretched by a new idea,

never regains its original size.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing,

but in rising up every time we fail.