"A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well." "Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents", grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." "Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it." "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."
"Housekeeping ain't no joke." "If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won." "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship." "It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women." "Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won." "Love is a great beautifier." "Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." "Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations." "'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary." "We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing." "What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?" "Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling." Also ReadQuotations / Quotes by famous personalities
"A place for everything, and everything in its place." "An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing." "Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action." "Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side."
"Good actions give strength to ourselves, and inspire good actions in others." "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." "Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." "Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it." "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever." "Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them." "Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform." "No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober." "Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the heart of others." "The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice." "The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted." "We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas." "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." "Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age." "God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man." "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace." "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." "In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity." "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." "Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use." "Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." "One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas." "The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages." "The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal." "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." "There shall be no slavery of the mind." "This is the battle between day and night... I see black light." "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." "To love another person is to see the face of God." "To love is to act." "To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better." "What makes night within us may leave stars." "Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background." "You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea."
"A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned." "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." "Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal." "He that can have patience can have what he will." "Honesty is the best policy." "I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it." "If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." "In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria." "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." "Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five." "Never ruin an apology with an excuse." "Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes." "Remember that time is money." "Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." "That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved; never, that I know of, controverted." "The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively." "There never was a good war or a bad peace." "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. "Well done is better than well said." "You may delay, but time will not."
"A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish." "A spectre is haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism." "Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks."
"Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself." "Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included)." "Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth." "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." "History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends." "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." "I am nothing but I must be everything." "If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist." "Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human." "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." "Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please." "Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same." "Neither of us cares a straw for popularity." "No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need." "Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people." "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering." "The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money." "The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way." "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." "The importunity of the fellow is also niggerlike." "The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope." "The object of art — like every other product — creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty." "The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them." "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." "The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property." "The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." "The uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the emancipation of the proletariat." "The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself." "There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism." "To be radical is to grasp things by the root."
"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance." "Amiable weaknesses of human nature." "Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes." "But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius." "Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty." "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." "I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." "I was never less alone than when by myself." "In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute." "On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure." "Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery." "Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive." "The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness." "The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous." "The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." "Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave." "We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win." "Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom."
"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company." "At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
"Cast down your bucket where you are." "Character is power." "Character, not circumstances, makes the man."
"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top." "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed." "I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else." "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." "I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." "If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams." "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." "In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists." "Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood." "My whole life has largely been one of surprises." "No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts." "No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward." "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work." "Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color." "One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him." "Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star." "Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the everyday things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon." "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." "The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race." "The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do." "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." "There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up." "There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life." "To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him." "We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers." "We must reinforce argument with results." "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
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"A house divided against itself cannot stand." "A tendency to melancholy... let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault." "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." "Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." "Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way." "Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be." "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis."
"The great point is to bring them the real facts." "I am a slow walker, but I never walk back." "I am nothing, truth is everything." "I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God." "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." "I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it." "I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not." "I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal." "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" "If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem." "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." "Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it." "Let your military measures be strong enough to repel the invader and keep the peace, and not so strong as to unnecessarily harass and persecute the people." "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." "My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth." "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar." "No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent." "That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." "The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma." "The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land." "The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." "There can be glory in failure and despair in success." "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." "Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest." "Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in." "What I did, I did after very full deliberation, and under a heavy and solemn sense of responsibility. I can only trust in God that I have made no mistake." "What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree." "Whatever you are, be a good one." "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." "Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me." "You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm." "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." Also ReadQuotations / Quotes by famous personalities
