Learn Through Quotations

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

“All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”

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

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

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”

“The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.”

“Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.”

“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.”

“He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.”

“All Ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

“Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.”

“Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.”

“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.”

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

“Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

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