Favorite Quotes
— Nelson Mandela
— Maya Angelou
“The longer I am in this position, the more I appreciate the African proverb that says, ‘If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to far, go together.’”
— Freeman A. Hrabowski III on being president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It’s why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.”
— Oprah Winfrey
It’s NOT the critic who counts;
not the person who points out how the strong person stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the person who is actually IN the arena,
whose face is marred by dust & sweat & blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, who spends themself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if they fail, at least they fail while
daring greatly...”
— Adapted from Theodore Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena” speech
“A vision without a task is but a dream; a task without a vision is but drudgery; a vision and a task is the hope of the world.”
— Inscription inside an 18th-century church, as quoted in Redeeming Your Time by Jordan Raynor
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
— Nelson Mandela
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
— Mark Twain