Inspiring Quotations
Here is a compilation of inspirational and provocative
quotes, sayings and proverbs which we've used on our web site and
our email newsletters. Maybe you can use them too! We'll be updating
this page now and again.
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they
were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the
mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny
pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
Change is the law of life. And those who look
only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
On the way to one's beloved, there are no hills.
- Kikuyu proverb (Kenya)
Cowardice asks, is it safe? Expediency asks,
is it politic? Vanity asks, is it popular? But conscience asks,
is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position
that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it
because conscience tells him, it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels
to help a child.
- Knights of Pythagoras
There are no failures - just experiences and
your reactions to them.
- Tom Krause
Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line.
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your
voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen
to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.
And do your homework.
- Maggie Kuhn
Hope is a moral obligation, a human obligation,
an obligation to the cells in your body . . . Hope is not naïve,
hope grapples endlessly with despair. Real, vivid, powerful, thunderclap
hope, like the soul, is at home in darkness, is divided; but lose
your hope and you lose your soul.
- Tony Kushner
Please use your freedom to promote ours.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
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Human nature will be the last part of Nature
to surrender to man.
- C.S. Lewis
People do not see; they only recognize. And
what they do not recognize remains invisible to them.
- Simon Leys
When I care to be powerful -- to use my strength
in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important
whether I am afraid.
- Audre Lorde
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather
that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should
be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every
atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of (wo)man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste
my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
- Jack London
If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you
can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's
probably deserved.
- J. Russel Lynes
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