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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Democracy is an ideal I wish to live for, but
if need be, it is an ideal I am prepared to die for.
- Nelson Mandela
If nothing else is left, one must scream. Silence
is the real crime against humanity.
- Nadezhda Mandelstam
I will not die an unlived life
I will not live in fear of falling
Or of catching fire
I choose to inhabit my days
To allow my living to open me
Making me less afraid
More accessible
To loosen my heart
So that it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance.
To live so that that which comes to me as seed
Goes to the next as blossom
And that which comes to me as blossom
Goes on as fruit.
- Dawna Markova
Let's use this moment
To leap beyond our fear
Landing upright on earth
Among the wildflowers.
- Naomi Mattis
We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom
of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the
well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
- Mao Tse-tung
The relationship between commitment and doubt
is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when
it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
- Rollo May
Criticize by creating.
- Michelangelo
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person
to person.
- Mother Teresa
The poor shall remain poor and the rich shall
remain rich". . . She said, "we in the high density areas
are leading a "001" type of life. This meant, "0"
breakfast, "0" lunch and "1" dinner.
- B. Mubaiwa, Fieldwork Notes, 3 November 2005, Remittances, Poverty
Reduction and the Informalisation of Household Wellbeing in Zimbabwe
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Even in the most repressive societies our hope
rests with the endless potential of human beings to find creative
and inventive ways of resistance.
- Azar Nafisi
With courage you will dare to take risks, have
the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage
is the foundation of integrity.
- Keshavan Nair
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
- Jose Narosky
If the fish in a river
boiled by the midday sun
can wait for the coming of evening,
we too can wait
in this wind-frosted land,
the spring will come,
the spring will come.
If the reeds in winter
can dry up
and seem dead
and then rise in the spring,
we too will survive the fire that is coming
the fire that is coming,
we too will survive the fire that is coming.
- Njabulo S Ndebele, Fools & other stories
If things are not right, we have no business
turning aside until we have done our share and more than our share
in our efforts to set them right.
- Scott Nearing
Often the voice of conscience whispers / Often
we silence it / Always we have to pay.
- Cletus Nelson Nwadike, Nigerian poet
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