Identity Quotes

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?

I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.

It cannot come from abroad.

If destruction be our lot,

we must ourselves be its author and finisher.

As a nation of freemen,

we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Every morning we are born again.

What we do today is what matters most.

Teaching is a very noble

profession that shapes

the character, caliber,

and future of an individual.

If the people remember me

as a good teacher, that will

be the biggest honour for me.

Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

A capacity, and taste,

for reading gives access to whatever

has already been discovered by others.

The reason why the world lacks unity,

and lies broken and in heaps,

is, because man is disunited with himself.

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

and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do

what you believe is great work.

In wisdom gathered over time

I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

There is no short cut to achievement.

Life requires thorough preparation

veneer isn't worth anything.

The ends justify the means.

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.

Climate change is a terrible problem,

and it absolutely needs to be solved.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment

in application to the duties of life.

Sometimes, when I see

my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own,

I wish I were a child.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Time is an illusion.

Lunchtime doubly so.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

A revolution is a struggle to the death

between the future and the past.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions.

Subjectivity is truth.