Quotes 26-50
- “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.”
- “Everybody can be great … because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
- “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.”
- “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
- “Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.”
- “You will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile, laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you.”
- “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. ”
- “Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.”
- “We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.”
- “The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”
- “A riot is the language of the unheard.”
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- “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.”
- “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
- “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
- “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.”
- “Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.”
- “When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. ”
- “That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.”
- “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
- “We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.”
- “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
- “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service… You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.”
