Quotes

Words that linger — reminders of truth, humility, and persistence.

“Nothing about us without us is for us.”
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“Dare to dream.”
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“Dare to do.”
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“Out of the frying pan into the fire”
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“Be the hero of your own story.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Marcellus, Act I, Scene IV)
“A rising tide lifts all boats”
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
— Proverb (earliest known: Anne I. Thackeray Ritchie, 1885)
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in, they’re eating the cats, they’re eating, they’re eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what’s happening in our country.”
— Donald Trump
“Respect and manners.”
— Andrew Kelly, Principal, Loreto Community School (Milford, Co. Donegal)
“A stitch in time saves nine.”
— Proverb
How the mighty have fallen.
— 2 Samuel 1
My head is the key to my freedom
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“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
— T. H. Huxley
“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”
— Peter Drucker
The Dunning–Kruger effect: you don’t know what you don’t know.
— Kruger & Dunning (1999)
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt
“Real character is formed not by having an abundance of choices but in accepting definite limitations, in commitments made and promises kept.”
— Attribution pending
“Nothing human is alien to me.” (Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.)
— Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
“What is rare is valuable — scarcity pricing.”
— Economic principle
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
— Often misattributed (earliest: 1981–83)
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
— Commonly attributed to Mahatma Gandhi (paraphrase)
“To thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Polonius)
“The truth shall make you free.”
— John 8:32
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. (“I Have a Dream,” 1963)
“I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. (“The Drum Major Instinct,” 1968)
“We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
— Theodore Parker (1853); popularized by MLK
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr. (Strength to Love, 1963)
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
— George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905)
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
— Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
— Commonly attributed to Mark Twain (apocryphal)