If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. —Juan Ramón Jiménez More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves but in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our congressman — whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. —Pierce Vincent Eckhart More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: heroism bravery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. —Betty Reese More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. —Jacob A. Riis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. —Edgar Watson Howe More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The good thing about adversity is that it teaches one to learn how to handle more adversity. —Isabel Martin Williams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all need a little courage now and then. That's what I need. If you have some to share, I want to know you. Your criticisms you can keep to yourself. —Marvin Bell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. —Janeane Garofalo More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. —Earl Warren More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed. —Jan de Hartog More about this quote Tags: error mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When half the world is still plagued by terror and distress, you stop guiltily sometimes in the midst of your house-laughter and wonder if you've a right to it. Ought any of us to laugh, until all of us can again, you ask yourself, sometimes. —Margaret Lee Runbeck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense . . . was that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion demanded that they should burn none at all. —Maurice Maeterlinck More about this quote Tags: opinion reason moderation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. —David Harris More about this quote Tags: revolution decency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email