Quotes of Individual - somelinesforyou

“ There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves, and those who are afraid that you will succeed. ”

- Ray Goforth

“ Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ”

- William Lloyd Garrison

“ All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. ”

- Woody Allen

“ I think it was a great moment for America to have two ladies on the podium. ”

- Sarah Hughes

“ To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer. ”

- Bill Vaughan

“ Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men — the balance-wheel of the social machinery. ”

- Horace Mann

“ Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ”

- George Chapman

“ A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say, "My men were beaten," he says, "I was beaten.". ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. ”

- Dwight L. Moody

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there is a liberalism which is more ethical than political; one would have to find another name for this… ”

- Roland Barthes

“ What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?". ”

- Brian Tracy

“ What, man, defy the devil? Consider, he's an enemy to mankind. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. ”

- Dennis Wholey

“ When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity! ”

- Albert Einstein

“ I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ”

- Rebecca West

“ Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. ”

- Viktor E. Frankl

“ Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli
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