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Sports are a microcosm of society.
- Billie Jean King (tennis player)
Sports teaches you character,
it teaches you to play by the rules.
Sports teaches you to know what
it feels like to win and lose,
it teaches you about life.
- Billie Jean King
Choose to adopt the attitude toward failure that sports teams do.
In each game, one team succeeds and one fails.
Then the next week they both get out and play again.
Life is also a game - with some successes and some failures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The heart is always right -
if there's a question of choosing between the mind and the heart -
because mind is a creation of the society.
It has been educated.
You have been given it by the society, not by existence.
The heart is unpolluted.
- Osho
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget
all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
- Henry David Thoreau
People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It seems that we have it backward in our society.
We tend to look up to people
who are under a great deal of stress,
who can handle loads of stress,
and those who are under a great deal of pressure.
- Richard Carlson
Sucking the marrow out of life
doesn't mean choking on the bone.
- Robin Williams as John Keating
in the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
I claim that human mind or human society
is not divided into watertight compartments
called social, political and religious.
All act and react upon one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As in geology, so in social institutions,
we may discover the causes of all past changes
in the present invariable order of society.
- Henry David Thoreau
The value of a dollar is social,
as it is created by society.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented;
we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
- Anne Lamott
It is incontestable and deplorable
that Negroes have committed crimes;
but they are derivative crimes.
They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Margaret Mead
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
One of the greatest casualties
of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...
shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Measures must always, in a progressive society,
be held superior to men, who are after all,
imperfect instruments, working for their fulfillment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To educate a person in mind and not in morals
is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt
All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends
and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.
That's what's insane about it.
- John Lennon
Liberty is to the collective body,
what health is to every individual body.
Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man;
without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
- Thomas Jefferson
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture,
society must set the artist free
to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
The very word "secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society;
and we are as a people inherently and historically
opposed to secret societies,
to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
- John F. Kennedy
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of the society but the people themselves;
and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role,
is to try and express what we all feel.
Not to tell people how to feel.
Not as a preacher, not as a leader,
but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes
in every waking moment of their lives
to remind them that the lie of their inferiority
is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The basic thing nobody asks is
why do people take drugs of any sort?
Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?
I mean, is there something wrong with society
that's making us so pressurized,
that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
- John Lennon
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
- Carl Jung
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No written law has ever been more binding
than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
- Carrie Chapman Catt
NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Know that love has no limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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