Spped Quotes

Success is about effort,

not luck.

I am not a liberator.

Liberators do not exist.

The people liberate themselves.

Love is the attempt to

form a friendship

inspired by beauty.

You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself,

and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

Being elected to Congress,

though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it,

has not pleased me as much as I expected.

My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana,

in my eighth year... It was a wild region,

with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods.

There I grew up... Of course when I came of age,

I did not know much.

Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher...

but that was all.

To educate a man in mind and

not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Heroism on command, senseless violence,

and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism

how passionately I hate them!

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

All you need is the plan,

the road map, and

the courage to press

on to your destination.

I’m comfortable being myself;

the rest is just acting.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of

a palace has an animal nature,

rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Follow your instincts.

That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Science is organized knowledge.

Wisdom is organized life.

The main difference between a cat and a lie

is that a cat only has nine lives.

The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless,

unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

The mediocre teacher tells

The good teacher explains

The superior teacher

demonstrates.

The great teacher inspires

Stay true to yourself;

the world will try to change you.