Learn Through Quotations

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”

“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”

“There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.”

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”

“The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.”

“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

“The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.”

“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”

“The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.”

“The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.”

“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.”

“The phrase 'working mother' is redundant.”

“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”

“The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests.”

“Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.”

“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”

“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

“If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.”

“If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.”

“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.”