Spped Quotes

Every day is a chance to reinvent yourself.

A lot of Thanksgiving days

have been ruined by not

carving the turkey

in the kitchen.

I'm not the one who made you cry;

your performance made me cry.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal'

was of no practical use in effecting our separation from

Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that,

but for future use.

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life

until it’s too late.

It is with your aid, as the people,

that I think we shall be able to preserve

not the country, for the country will preserve itself,

but the institutions of the country

those institutions which have made us free,

intelligent and happy the most free, the most intelligent,

and the happiest people on the globe.

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.

Human beings, regrettably,

are inherently unequal.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

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.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought

forth on this continent, a new nation,

conceived in Liberty,

and dedicated to the proposition that

all men are created equal.

New opinions are always suspected,

and usually opposed,

without any other reason but because they are not already common.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

A purpose of human life,

no matter who is controlling it,

is to love whoever is around to be loved.

While children are struggling to be unique,

the world around them is trying all means to make them

look like everybody else.

We can make market forces work better for

the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism.

It’s a great privilege to be an actor.

It’s a great privilege to be alive.

Everything is funny,

as long as it is happening to somebody else.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith

when by doing so it would be against his interests.