Identity Quotes

The people,

and the people alone,

are the motive force in the making of world history.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

All generalizations are false,

including this one.

Don't come back until you've practiced.

The way for a young man to rise

is to improve himself in every way he can,

never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

The alternate domination of one faction over another,

sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,

which in different ages and countries has perpetrated

the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.

But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Show class,

have pride,

and display character.

No people is wholly civilized

where a distinction is drawn between

stealing an office and stealing a purse.

I don't care what people think of me.

I have always found that mercy bears

richer fruits than strict justice.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green

eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.

No such thing as a life that’s better than yours.

Absorb what is useful,

discard what is not,

add what is uniquely your own.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government,

who assist in bearing its burdens.

Consequently,

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage,

who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men

and things cannot be acquired by

vegetating in one little corner of the earth.

A father’s arms are made of tenderness

and children sleep soundly in them.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,

and to serve them one's self?

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see

the miraculous in the common.

Success is my only option,

failure’s not.

Ain’t I a woman?