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“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

“Life's too short to be a pushover.”
― Kelly Clarkson

“Life is not a spectator sport.”
― Jimmy Connors

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein

“A successful life is not an easy life. It is built on strong qualities, sacrifice, endeavor, loyalty and integrity.”
― Grant D. SearchfieldPhD

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
― Michael Jordan

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
― Albert Einstein

“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard' I am always tempeted to ask, 'Compared to what?”
― Sidney Harris

“There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru

“All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“and there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than the other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”
― Herman Melville

“Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes
Is the deed ever truly done
For Heaven and the future's sakes”
― Robert Frost

“Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief
'Oh Lord, my heart is black with guile, of sinners I am chief'
Then stooped my guardian angel and whispered from behind
'Vanity my little man, you're nothing of the kind'
”
― James Thomson

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

“A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.”
― Paul Valery

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: By Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.”
― Peter Cook

“We will either find a way...or make one.”
― HAMLETT

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”
― Mao Tse-tung

“Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive”
― Oscar Wilde

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
― Joseph Addison

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Your world and the cat's world are not the same.”
― Taisen Deshimaru

“Even in warmest
glow
how cold my shadow”
― Issa

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale

“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
― William Ralph Inge