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"The first duty of society is justice." - Alexander Hamilton "It isn't enough that we have 'meaningful' work. What is also required is work that satisfies the soul." - Thomas Moore "The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur." - Vince Lombardi "Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak." - Paul Wellstone " "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge "You can do no great things- only small things with great love" - Mother Teresa "To talk goodness is not good. Only to do it is." - Chinese proverb "The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience." - Justice O.W. Holmes "May we, in our dealings with all people of the earth, ever speak the truth and serve justice." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Ghandi "Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will." Mahatma Ghandi "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert F. Kennedy "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank "It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing." - Mother Theresa "You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails." - Yiddish proverb "This above all: to your own self be true… not then be false to any man." - Shakespeare "Things should be made as simple as possible, and not simpler." - Albert Einstein "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain "Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying." - Christian F. Gellert "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confident knowledge that they will help us." - Epicurus "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Emile Zola "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson "Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - John F. Kennedy "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson "Living well is the best revenge." - Spanish proverb "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi "You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra "Opportunities muliply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu "Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill "The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright "The journey is the reward." - Taoist saying "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." - Maya Angelou "He is able who thinks he is able." - Buddha "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison "I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost "Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way." - Dr. Seuss "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right." - Nelson Mandela "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." - William Shakespeare "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan "If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity." - John F. Kennedy "Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." - Abraham Lincoln "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt "That which does not kill us makes us stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." - Henry David Thoreau "Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up." - Jesse Jackson "The price of greatness is responsibility." - Sir Winston Churchill "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us." - Francis Bacon "Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke "Justice delayed is justice denied." - William Gladstone "Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense." - Cicero "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry "We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all." - Wm. Reece Smith, Jr. "Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." - Norman Schwartzkopf "The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." - Albert Ellis "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." - Orison Swett Marden "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus "A will finds a way." - Orison Swett Marden "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius "If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." - Louis D. Brandeis "Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny." - Edmund Burke "It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do." - Edmund Burke "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." - Ayn Rand |