01 June 2006
American Thinkers on Values
Maya Angelou: “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
Emily Dickinson: “Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.”
Peter Drucker: “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
W.E.B. DuBois: “Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.”
Amelia Earhart: “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.”
Albert Einstein: “The important thing is to not stop questioning.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson: “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on the plot of ground which is given to him to till.”
Benjamin Franklin: “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Bill Gates: “With success, I have been given great wealth. And with great wealth comes great responsibility to give back to society, to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those in need.”
Langston Hughes: “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
Garrison Keillor: “I think the most un-American thing you can say is, ‘You can’t say that.’”
Edward R. Murrow: “To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.”
Mark Twain: “A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”
