Favorite quotes

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him

 

Trust? Years to earn, seconds to break.

 

"The knot tied by a wiseman cannot be undone by a fool." -Akan proverb

 

Saw this on a bumper sticker and couldn't find it when I searched the thread, but

"Home of the free, because of the brave".

 

"Bitch please, out of a dog, cat and a rat, I'd rather be a rat, because a rat get chee$e."-Suga Free

 

Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world." -Jack Layton

 

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." -Frederick Douglass

 

"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none."- Thomas Jefferson

 

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."- Thomas Paine

 

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you." -Althea Gibson

 

"A man who has no imagination has no wings." -Muhammad Ali

 

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor".
Aldous Huxley

 

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Ice Cube

 

Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
Anna Lindh

 

"Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible." -Mary McLeod Bethune

 

"It is not enough to run, one must arrive and know when one has arrived." Nigerian proverb

 

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Great post Tarshi.

 

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. -James M. Barrie, novelist and playwright (1860-1937)

 

"The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to." -Marian Wright Edelman