Spped Quotes

The price one pays for pursuing truth is loneliness.

To give victory to the right,

not bloody bullets,

but peaceful ballots only,

are necessary.

When the solution is simple,

God is answering.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools,

but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka

is the dream of youth of the nation.

My message for the youth is to collectively work for

an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

E Alphabet and Letter in Red

Wise men speak because they have something to say;

fools because they have to say something.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment,

a household of children,

if things go reasonably well,

certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

The world owes you nothing.

It was here first.

I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

I was just excited to have challenging work to do

and smart people to work with.

Anyone who doesn't take truth

seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Even if you’re on the right track,

you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Ideally a book would have no order to it,

and the reader would have to discover his own.

I have no other view than to promote the public good,

and am unambitious of honors not founded,

in the approbation of my Country.

I like stories that make people think and feel at the same time.

The future never just happens.

It is created.

Failure is just a lesson,

not the end of the story.

The key to immortality is

first living a life worth remembering.

To be prepared for war is

one of the most effective means of preserving peace.