True line Quotes

Think of how stupid the average person is,

and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Climbing to the top

demands strength,

whether it is to the top of

Mount Everest or to the

top of your career.

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

'always do what you are afraid to do.'

Over the years,

I've interviewed thousands of people,

most of them women,

and I would say that the root of every dysfunction,

I've ever encountered every problem,

has been some sense of a lacking of self,

value or of self,

worth.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

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.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us

dreamers and indolent...

It is good to begin life poor;

it is good to begin life rich

these are wholesome;

but to begin it prospectively rich!

The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Reading is still the main way that

I both learn new things and test my understanding.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Life is a blur when one is

essaying different roles;

it is so fulfilling.

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.

Science is global.

Einstein's equation,

E=mc2,

has to reach everywhere.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity,

we should not distort it.

Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

How much love you can feel,

and what you can accomplish!

What your potential is!

The reactionary is always willing to take

a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Speak your truth,

even if your voice shakes.

Great organizations demand

a high level of commitment by the people involved.

When angry, count to four;

when very angry, swear.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

No act of kindness,

no matter how small,

is ever wasted.