Powerful Words
“We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
-Oprah Winfrey
“How wonderful that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
-Anne Frank
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
-Dr. Seuss
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
-Mother Teresa
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.”
-Maya Angelou
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
-Robert F. Kennedy
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.”
-Andrew Carnegie
“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 your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
-Martin Luther King,Jr.
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”
-John F. Kennedy
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.“
-Charles Darwin
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness"
-Thomas Jefferson, 1776 Declaration of Independence
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "
-Abraham Lincoln, 1963 Gettysburg Address (16th President)
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
-Mahatma Ghandi
"And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land"
-Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
-Barack Obama
" Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
-Nelson Mandela
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
-Michael Jordan (professional basketball player)
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
-Bill Cosby (actor, comedian, and Dr. of Education)
“I believe we are here on planet earth to live, grow up, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”
-Rosa Parks (“Mother” of the civil rights movement)
“You win one day, you lose the next day, you don’t take it personally. You get up every day and go on.”
-Hillary Rodham Clinton (1st lady, lawyer, Secretary of State)
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.”
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Women’s Rights Activist)
“When you’ve got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.”
-Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the U.S.)
“Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
-George Washington (General, 1st President of the U.S.)
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President of the U.S.)
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
-Mark Twain (American author and humorist)
“It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
-Amelia Earhart (1st woman aviator to fly the Atlantic solo)
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.”
-Vincent van Gogh (Dutch painter)
“All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?”
-Nicholas Johnson (author of space exploration books)
“The game isn’t over until it’s over.”
-Yogi Berra (professional baseball catcher)
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
-Thomas Alva Edison (American inventor)
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the U.S.)