Spped Quotes

Flowers... are a proud assertion

that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.

Friendship needs no words

it is solitude delivered

from the anguish

of loneliness.

Give me liberty,

or give me death!

— Patrick Henry

I’m not a girl trying to be a singer,

I’m a singer trying to be a girl.

You’re never as good as you think you are when you win,

and you’re never as bad as you think you are when you lose.

The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt.

Life opens up opportunities to you,

and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

In a democracy,

the people get the government they deserve.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,

'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Science is organized knowledge.

Wisdom is organized life.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion.

You must set yourself on fire.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening

our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and

the whole of nature and its beauty.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science

gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days

assertive and aggressive and the degree to

which we had to be that way depended on where you were.

I had to be.