Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pearl S. Buck

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Peace Pilgrim

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Pema Chodron

In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.

Pema Chodron

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Pema Chodron

WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

Peter Senge

We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

Queen Latifah

There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.

Temple Grandin

If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.

Temple Grandin

I am different, not less

Ted Koppel

Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail ­ as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards.

Ted Hughes

You are who you choose to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Shirley Chisholm

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

Shirley Chisholm

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Shari Arison

I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.

Lee Kuan Yew

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.

Lee Kuan Yew

I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.

Lee Kuan Yew

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

Lee Kuan Yew

I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

Lee Kuan Yew

Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

Lee Kuan Yew

I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.

Lee Kuan Yew

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Lee Kuan Yew

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Larry Ellison

I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.

Vaclav Havel

The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are all one infinitely complex and mysterious metaorganism of which we are but a part, though a unique one.

Vaclav Havel

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Stephen King

A change is as good as a rest.

Marc Jacobs

Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.