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Mark Twain -
“It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a
good impromptu speech." - Mark Twain
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and
astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
“A classic is something that everyone wants to have
read, but nobody wants to read.” – Mark Twain
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own
approval.” - Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 30 November 1835 – 21 April 1910)
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind
can see." - Mark Twain
“Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen
to you the rest of the day.” -Mark Twain
"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The
world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain
Mother Teresa
- (26 August 1910 - 5 September 1997)
"Love is doing small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” -
Mother Teresa
“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so
much." - Mother Teresa
“Peace begins with a smile.” - Mother Teresa
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” -
Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
- Mother Teresa
“A life not lived for others is not a life.” - Mother Teresa
“Live simply so others may simply live.” - Mother Teresa
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.” -
Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to
each other.” - Mother Teresa
"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of
the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come
in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as
beautifully as possible." - Mother Teresa
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind
anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your
best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between
you and them anyway.” - Mother Teresa
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the
waters to create many ripples.” - Mother Teresa
“If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor
disgrace, because you know what you are.” - Mother Teresa
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be
the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face,
kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” - Mother Teresa
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when
we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How
many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask,
'How much love did you put into what you did?” - Mother Teresa
“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we
have received, how much money we have made, how many great
things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you
gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was
homeless, and you took me in.” - Mother Teresa
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your
family.” - Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we
can do great things.” - Mother Teresa
“If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.” - Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being
unloved.” - Mother Teresa
Winston Churchill
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- (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965)
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter. - Winston Churchill
"The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they
are no less difficult." - Winston Churchill
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." -
Winston Churchill
"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime
in your life." - Winston Churchill
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
"Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick
ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
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Napoleon Bonaparte -
(15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821)
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our
genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.” -
Napoleon Bonaparte
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
"My downfall raises me to infinite heights." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"An army marches on its stomach" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."- Napoleon Bonaparte
“The word impossible is not in my dictionary." - Napoleon Bonaparte
“Circumstances? I make my own circumstances.” Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Abraham Lincoln –
(12 February 1809 – 15 April 1865)
"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." - Abraham Lincoln
"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today." - Abraham Lincoln
“Most people are about as happy as they intend to be.” - Abraham Lincoln.
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on
him personally.” - Abraham Lincoln.
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on
God's side, for God is always right.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him
power.” - Abraham Lincoln
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” -
Abraham Lincoln
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” - Abraham Lincoln
“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.” - Abraham Lincoln
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Albert Einstein -
(14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem." -
Albert Einstein
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch
of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Albert
Einstein
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in
large ones either." - Albert Einstein
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the
kiss the attention it deserves." - Albert Einstein
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” -
Albert Einstein
“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” - Albert Einstein
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“People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like
curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born." - Albert Einstein
“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert
Einstein
“I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.” - Albert Einstein
"Everything must be made as simple as possible but not one bit
simpler." - Albert Einstein
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not
everything that can be counted counts."
- Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." - Albert Einstein
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You
pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los
Angeles. Do you understand this?
And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals
here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there
is no cat."
- Albert Einstein
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.” - Albert Einstein
“There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a
miracle.” - Albert Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” - Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” - Albert Einstein
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will
live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
created them.” - Albert Einstein
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and
not as a hard duty.” – Albert Einstein
"I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither
myself nor the next person seriously." - Albert Einstein
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." -
Albert Einstein
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is
keeping your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the
the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel,
even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
- Albert Einstein
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute.
That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an
empty desk?” - Albert Einstein.
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Benjamin Franklin -
(17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790)
an American inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat, and statesman
“I've lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing Proofs I see
of this Truth — That God governs in the Affairs of Men.” - Benjamin Franklin
“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises
permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death
and taxes.” - Benjamin Franklin
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” - Benjamin Franklin
John Fitzgerald (Jack) Kennedy (JFK) - (29 May 1917 – 22 November 1963)
“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in
life.” - John F. Kennedy
“Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” -
John F. Kennedy
“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you
can do for your country.” - John F. Kennedy
“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One
represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” - John F. Kennedy
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are
rich.” - John F. Kennedy
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” - John F. Kennedy
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” - John F. Kennedy
“Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is
the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity
nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the
sword of freedom.” - John F. Kennedy
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” - John F.
Kennedy
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the
same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.” - John F.
Kennedy
“Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust
the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they
entrust the care of their plumbing.” - John F. Kennedy
“A child miseducated is a child lost.” - John F. Kennedy
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” - John F. Kennedy
“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to
become politicians in the process.” - John F. Kennedy
“We need men who can dream of things that never were.” - John F. Kennedy
“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power
to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.” - John F.
Kennedy
“I'm an idealist without illusions.” - John F. Kennedy
“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he
can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.”
- John F. Kennedy
On the door to the Texas School
Book Depository, Dallas 2013
Maya Angelou -
(born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014)
"If you get, give. If you learn, teach." - Maya Angelou.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you
did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou.
This is a photo
montage made
up of thousands
of photos of
Jackie Kennedy
It is found in the
Texas School
Book Depository
Museum, Dallas,
Texas. 2013
“Poverty was not created by God.
It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”
- Mother Teresa
Desmond Tutu - 7 October 1931, Klerksdorp - 26 December 2021, Cape Town
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put
together that overwhelm the world.” - Desmond Tutu
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen
the side of the oppressor.” - Desmond Tutu
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”– Desmond Tutu.
“There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.” - Desmond Tutu.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the
mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” – Desmond Tutu.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. – Desmond Tutu.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of
inestimable value. – Desmond Tutu.
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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein
“If you want your children to be intelligent,
read them fairy tales. If you want them to be
more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you
don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
Image by Rob de Roy from Pixabay
“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change
it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou
“I did then what I knew how to
do. Now that I know better, I do
better.”
― Maya Angelou
“You may not control all the
events that happen to you, but
you can decide not to be
reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and
to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor,
and some style.”
― Maya Angelou
“Never make someone a priority when
all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man
has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Maya Angelou
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou
"It's very hard to hate someone if you look them in the eye and
recognize them as a human being." ― Maya Angelou
Image Credit - kalhh from Pixabay
"Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be profitable, but it will satisfy your
soul. It brings you the kind of protection that bodyguards can’t give you." - MayaAngelou
Martin Luther King Jr
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“If you can’t fly, then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t
walk, then crawl; but whatever you do, you have to keep moving
forward.”
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you
doing for others?’”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the
whole staircase.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but
the silence of our friends.”
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they
don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.”
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People
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Mark Twain -
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- 30 November 1835 – 21 April 1910)
Mother Teresa
Winston Churchill
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Abraham Lincoln –
Albert Einstein -
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John Fitzgerald (Jack) Kennedy (JFK)
- (29 May 1917 – 22 November 1963)
Maya Angelou -
“It usually takes more than three
weeks to prepare a good
impromptu speech." - Mark Twain
"Always do right. This will gratify
some people and astonish the
rest." - Mark Twain
“A classic is something that everyone wants to have read,
but nobody wants to read.” – Mark Twain
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
- Mark Twain
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can
hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
“Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing
worse will happen to you the rest of the day.”
-Mark Twain
"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a
living. The world owes you nothing. It was
here first." - Mark Twain
- (26 August 1910 - 5 September 1997)
"Love is doing small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
“Not all of us can do great things.
But we can do small things with
great love.”
- Mother Teresa
“I know God won't give me
anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so
much." - Mother Teresa
“Peace begins with a smile.”
- Mother Teresa
“Kind words can be short and
easy to speak, but their
echoes are truly endless.” -
Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is
because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.”
- Mother Teresa
“A life not lived for others is not
a life.” - Mother Teresa
“Live simply so others may simply live.” - Mother Teresa
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the
hunger for bread.” - Mother Teresa
“If we have no peace, it is because we
have forgotten that we belong to each
other.” - Mother Teresa
"There is always the danger that we may
just do the work for the sake of the work.
This is where the respect and the love and
the devotion come in - that we do it to God,
to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as
beautifully as possible." - Mother Teresa
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
- Mother Teresa
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be
enough.
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.”
- Mother Teresa
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can
cast a stone across the waters to create
many ripples.” - Mother Teresa
“If you are humble nothing will touch you,
neither praise nor disgrace, because you
know what you are.” - Mother Teresa
“Let no one ever come to you without
leaving better and happier. Be the living
expression of God's kindness: kindness in
your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness
in your smile.” - Mother Teresa
“I am not sure exactly what heaven
will be like, but I know that when we
die and it comes time for God to
judge us, he will not ask, 'How
many good things have you done in
your life?' rather he will ask, 'How
much love did you put into what you
did?” - Mother Teresa
“At the end of life we will not
be judged by how many
diplomas we have received,
how much money we have
made, how many great things
we have done. We will be
judged by "I was hungry, and
you gave me something to eat,
I was naked and you clothed
me. I was homeless, and you
took me in.” - Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you
can do things I cannot; together
we can do great things.” -
Mother Teresa
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love
your family.” - Mother Teresa
“If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.”
- Mother Teresa
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of
being unloved.” - Mother Teresa
- (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965)
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churchill
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether
my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
"The problems of victory are more
agreeable than the problems of defeat, but
they are no less difficult."
- Winston Churchill
"The farther backward you can look, the
farther forward you are likely to see." -
Winston Churchill
"You have enemies? Good. That
means you’ve stood up for
something, sometime in your life."
- Winston Churchill
“We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we
give."
- Winston Churchill
"Once in a while you will stumble
upon the truth but most of us
manage to pick ourselves up and
hurry along as if nothing had
happened." - Winston Churchill
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss
of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
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"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and
myself founded empires; but what
foundation did we rest the creations of
our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ
founded an empire upon love; and at
this hour millions of men would die for
Him.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” -
Napoleon Bonaparte
"My downfall raises me to infinite heights."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"An army marches on its stomach" -
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is
making a mistake."- Napoleon Bonaparte
“The word impossible is not in my dictionary." - Napoleon
Bonaparte
“Circumstances? I make my own circumstances.” Napoleon
Bonaparte.
"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." - Abraham
Lincoln
"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be
done today." - Abraham Lincoln
“Most people are about as happy as
they intend to be.” - Abraham Lincoln.
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for
slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it
tried on him personally.” - Abraham
Lincoln.
“Better to remain silent and be thought
a fool than to speak out and remove all
doubt.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is
on our side; my greatest concern is to
be on God's side, for God is always
right.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.” - Abraham
Lincoln
“In the end, it's not the years in
your life that count. It's the life in
your years.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?”
- Abraham Lincoln
“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.” - Abraham Lincoln
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(14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem." - Albert
Einstein
"A person who never made a mistake never
tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger
and more complex... It takes a touch of genius
- and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." - Albert Einstein
"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in
small matters cannot be trusted in large ones
either." - Albert Einstein
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a
pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the
attention it deserves." - Albert Einstein
“Technological progress is like an axe in the
hands of a pathological criminal.” - Albert
Einstein
“Try not to become a man of success but
a man of value.” - Albert Einstein
“People do not grow old no matter how long
we live. We never cease to stand like curious
children before the great Mystery into which
we were born." - Albert Einstein
“Before God we are all equally wise - and
equally foolish." - Albert Einstein
“I am convinced that He (God) does not play
dice.” - Albert Einstein
"Everything must be made as simple
as possible but not one bit simpler." -
Albert Einstein
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not
everything that can be counted counts."
- Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton
"Imagination is more important than
knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"Gravitation is not responsible for people
falling in love." - Albert Einstein
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
- Albert Einstein
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of
a very, very long cat. You pull his tail
in New York and his head is
meowing in Los Angeles. Do you
understand this?
And radio operates exactly the
same way: you send signals here,
they receive them there. The only
difference is that there is no cat."
- Albert Einstein
“There are two ways to live your life - one is as though
nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a
miracle.” - Albert Einstein
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by
understanding.” - Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is
blind.” - Albert Einstein
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge
a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will
live its whole life believing that it is
stupid.” – Albert Einstein
“We can't solve problems by using the
same kind of thinking we used when we
created them.” - Albert Einstein
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a
valuable gift and not as a hard duty.” – Albert Einstein
"I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor
and take neither myself nor the next person seriously." - Albert
Einstein
"Education is what remains after
one has forgotten everything he
learned in school." - Albert
Einstein
"If A is a success in life, then A
equals x plus y plus z. Work is x;
y is play; and z is keeping your
mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
"Two things are infinite: the
universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the the
universe."
- Albert Einstein
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This
is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the
Americans themselves."
- Albert Einstein
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert
Einstein
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like
an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute.
That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
"Only a life lived for others is a
life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a
cluttered mind, then what are we
to think of an empty desk?” -
Albert Einstein
(17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790)
Benjamin Franklin -
an American inventor, journalist, printer, diplomat, and statesman
“I've lived, Sir, a long time, and the
longer I live, the more convincing
Proofs I see of this Truth — That
God governs in the Affairs of Men.” -
Benjamin Franklin
“Our new Constitution is now
established, and has an appearance
that promises permanency; but in this
world nothing can be said to be
certain, except death and taxes.” -
Benjamin Franklin
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
- Benjamin Franklin
On the door to the
Texas School Book
Depository, Dallas 2013
This is a photo
montage made
up of thousands
of photos of
Jackie Kennedy
It is found in the
Texas School
Book Depository
Museum, Dallas,
Texas. 2013
“Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.”
- John F. Kennedy
“Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion
without the discomfort of thought.” - John F.
Kennedy
“My fellow Americans, ask not what your
country can do for you, ask what you can do
for your country.” - John F. Kennedy
“When written in Chinese, the
word 'crisis' is composed of two
characters. One represents
danger and the other represents
opportunity.”
- John F. Kennedy
“If a free society cannot help the
many who are poor, it cannot
save the few who are rich.”
- John F. Kennedy
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray
to be stronger men.” - John F.
Kennedy
“Efforts and courage are not
enough without purpose and
direction.” - John F. Kennedy
“Israel was not created in
order to disappear - Israel
will endure and flourish. It is
the child of hope and the
home of the brave. It can
neither be broken by
adversity nor demoralized
by success. It carries the
shield of democracy and it
honors the sword of
freedom.”
- John F. Kennedy
“Mankind must put an end
to war before war puts an
end to mankind.”
- John F. Kennedy
“Our most basic common
link is that we all inhabit this
planet. We all breathe the
same air. We all cherish our
children's future. And we
are all mortal.”
- John F. Kennedy
“Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in
paying those to whom they entrust the minds
of their children a smaller wage than is paid to
those to whom they entrust the care of their
plumbing.” - John F. Kennedy
“A child miseducated is a child lost.” - John F.
Kennedy
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is
shining.” - John F. Kennedy
“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be
president, but they don't want them to become
politicians in the process.” - John F. Kennedy
“We need men who can dream of things
that never were.” - John F. Kennedy
“The world is very different now. For man
holds in his mortal hands the power to
abolish all forms of human poverty, and
all forms of human life.”
- John F. Kennedy
“I'm an idealist without illusions.”
- John F. Kennedy
“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill
a president of the United States, he can
do it. All he must be prepared to do is
give his life for the president's.”
- John F. Kennedy
(born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014)
"If you get, give. If you learn,
teach." - Maya Angelou.
I've learned that people will
forget what you said, people will
forget what you did, but people
will never forget how you
made them feel.”
- Maya Angelou.
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“Poverty was not created by God.
It is we who have caused it, you
and I through our egotism.”
- Mother Teresa
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Desmond Tutu -
7 October 1931, Klerksdorp - 26 December 2021, Cape Town
“Do your little bit of good where you
are; it's those little bits of good put
together that overwhelm the world.”
- Desmond Tutu
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen
the side of the oppressor.” - Desmond Tutu
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the
darkness.”– Desmond Tutu.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse
and you say that you are neutral, the mouse
will not appreciate your neutrality.” – Desmond Tutu.
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only
be human together. – Desmond Tutu.
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the
extraordinary promise that every human life is of
inestimable value. – Desmond Tutu.
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get
you everywhere.” ― Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance,
you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein
“If you want your children to be
intelligent, read them fairy tales. If
you want them to be more
intelligent, read them more fairy
tales.”
― Albert Einstein
“If you can't explain it
to a six year old, you
don't understand it
yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is
change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think
about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou
“I did then what I knew how to
do. Now that I know better, I do
better.”
― Maya Angelou
“You may not control all the
events that happen to you, but
you can decide not to be
reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and
to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor,
and some style.”
― Maya Angelou
“Never make someone a priority when
all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou
“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man
has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Maya Angelou
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou
"It's very hard to hate someone if you look them in the eye
and recognize them as a human being." ― Maya Angelou
"Just do right. Right may not be expedient, it may not be
profitable, but it will satisfy your soul. It brings you the kind of
protection that bodyguards can’t give you." - MayaAngelou
Martin Luther King Jr
'Darkness cannot drive
out darkness: only light
can do that.
Hate cannot drive out
hate: only love can do
that.'
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you
doing for others?’”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the
whole staircase.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but
the silence of our friends.”
“If you can’t fly, then run; if
you can’t run, then walk; if
you can’t walk, then crawl;
but whatever you do, you
have to keep moving
forward.”
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they
fear each other because they don’t know each other; they
don’t know each other because they have not communicated
with each other.”
