Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. Wha...
He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endur...
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks l...
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change...
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies...
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is tha...
For every dark night, there's a brighter day
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in contro...
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty...
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in...
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants...
I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you le...
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they or...
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a n...
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfor...
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Poverty is the parent of revolution
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never c...
Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control i...
I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it...
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney...
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fic...
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up be...
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .
Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the th...
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for ...
Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what to...
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself...
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly becau...
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder th...
People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer to fulfillment. A...
The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are...
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, ...
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your pas...
The older generation are leading this country to galloping ruin!
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who ...
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop
Study the past if you would divine the future
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confid...
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunit...
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for...
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent tha...
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspe...
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children
I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it
Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth,...
To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of...
No matter where you go - there you are
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect hi...
Philosophy is the science which considers truth
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest v...
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster'...
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to colla...
If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.
That's what music is entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of...
The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym an...
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wanderin...
He who will not economize will have to agonize
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made u...
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their att...
ââ¬ÅIt is said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its j...
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.
I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by ...
There is a power so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete...
What is required is sight and insight; then you might add one more -- excite.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend the...
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then ...
The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures t...
Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from...
How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputa...
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk...
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew the...
Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollar...
We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient;...
I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I ...
I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitter...
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five giv...
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the ...
I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.
Riots are the voices of the unheard.
There is no further comment at this stage.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Give up what appears to be doubtful for what is certain. Truth brings peace of min...
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it b...
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not ...
Time brings all things to pass.
Life is suffering.
When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.
Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude
No, and I won't be. I walked out of Kurt And Courtney [the Nick Broomfield documen...
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. Whe...
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you...
Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast ...
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere i...
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the ...
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is o...
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be looker...
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding l...
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of shee...
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; ...
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep in...
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be ...
since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a wom...
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to succ...
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Atheism is a non-prophet organization
Never wound a snake; kill it.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of contro...
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it di...
Wisdom thoroughly learned will never be forgotten
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institut...
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will s...
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has...
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
As you think, so shall you become.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I canno...
Simplicity is the key to brilliance
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow s...
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to exlplore yourself
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
I love fools experiments. I am always making them.
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appeara...
If I am walking with two other men, each of them I will serve as my teacher. I wil...
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral...
Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for yo...
I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shad...
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle
Words are the voice of the heart
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mi...
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks
It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
Silence is a friend who will never betray
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
May you be born in an important time
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I ha...
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live th...
We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more imp...
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a...
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've f...
In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital imp...
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardli...
A good martial artist does not become tense but ready. Not thinking yet not dreami...
I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I w...
It's better to burn out than fade away.
Never met a wiseman if so it's a woman!
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afrai...
Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
I'd rather be hated for hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
I'm gonna be a superstar musician, kill myself and go out in a flame of glory, jus...
Thought the sun is gone, I have a light.
I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.
I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce ...
I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the...
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
See. It's just a theory!
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will e...
A poem begins with a lump in the throat
With the lights out, it's less dangerous!
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance
I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There w...
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land...
Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its ...
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
the need to end the cycle of violence is still there.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been on...
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the nigh...
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit...
Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief bec...
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just acc...
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will
A thought is an idea in transit.
Do not eat your heart.
The oldest, shortest words - ""yes' and ""no"" - are those which require the most ...
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, h...
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world...
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to...
Don't think, Feel, it is like a finger pointing out to the moon, don't concentrate...
The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big p...
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to th...
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscrimina...
If you're a sexist, racist, homophobe, or basically an arsehole, don't buy this CD...
I wish I was like you, easily amused.
If we're all saying that rap is an artform then we gotta be more responsible for o...
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the L...
To all the seeds that follow me
Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those w...
If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attenti...
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks i...
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any...
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars the...
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will...
They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by li...
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...let no one ever co...
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a ...
I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep, for my shad...
I get by with a little help from my friends.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best go...
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before...
I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wa...
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty ...
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color d...
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe t...
All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievabl...
Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourse...
Often known as "Honest Abe," or "the Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. Embroiled in a Civil War for much of his presidency, Lincoln was staunchly opposed to the expansion of slavery. During his administration he also broadly expanded the powers of the presidency, going so far as to personally direct the war effort and forcing the eventual surrender of the Confederacy. His leadership abilities and his political skills have had a lasting impact on U.S. politics and the presidency itself. He not only ended slavery, but brought about Westward …
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