Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 27

Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.
Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.
The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.
They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.
 Smokey Robinson
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
 William Wilberforce
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
 Menander
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
 Calvin S. Hall
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
 Andrew Carnegie
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
If one works well in a potato field, the potatoes will grow. If one works well among people, they will grow - that's reality. It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.
 Danilo Dolci
History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
Take what's useful, discard what is not.
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.
 Mencius
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
 Kenneth G. Wilson
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
 James M. Barrie
We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.
You want to know what it\'s like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don\'t stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.
You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.
 Lewis Black
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
 Hubert H. Humphrey