Good Quotations by Famous Great People

Some Great Thoughts By Great People
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. -George S. Patton

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. -Bill Cosby

A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him. -Elmer G. Letterman.

• If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. -Denis Waitley

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Ghandi

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." -Mahatma Ghandi

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." -Mahatma Ghandi

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -Buddha

"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice." - Mahatma Ghandi

"The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them self respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not think they had. Finally, it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality." -Martin Luther King Jr.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and faboulous?' Actually, who are not to be? You are a child of God. Yor playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing so enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of god which is within us. It is not in just some of us, it is in all of us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others. --Nelson Mandella (1994 Inaugural Speech)

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. -Groucho Marx

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. -William Frederick Halsy, Jr.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. -Warren Buffett

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. -Benjamin Mays

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. -Bill Vaughan

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. --Robert F. Kennedy

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. --Anne Frank

To love without role, without powerplays, is revolution. --Rita Mae Brown

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds. --Bob Marley

In Germany, first they came for the communists, and I did not speak up, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist, then they came for the catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a protestant Then they came for me, and by that time no-one was left to speak up. --Pastor Martin Niemoller (victim of the Nazis)

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind" - Mahatma Gandhi

"I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God." - Mahatma Gandhi

"What we can do, we will try to do." - Mahatma Gandhi

"I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity." - Mother Theresa

"I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord Himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?" - Mother Theresa

"There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. Put your love for them in living action. For in loving them, you are loving God Himself." - Mother Theresa

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving." - Mother Theresa

"To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite." - Mother Theresa

"You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that." - Mother Theresa

"I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality." - Martin Luther King Jr.

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. -Martin Luther King Jr.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~Buddha

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A.

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