Quotes June 14, 2025

“Within National Parks is room—glorious room—in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve.”
Naturalist Enos Mills
 
 
 
 
“If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”
Rachel Carson
 
 
 
 
“Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.”
Voltaire
 
 
 
 
“It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 
 
 
 
“We will only attain freedom if we learn to appreciate what is different, and muster the courage to discover what is fundamentally the same.”
Thurgood Marshall
 
 
 
 
“To have ego means to believe in your own strength.”
Barbra Streisand
 
 
 
 
“In a competition of love we’ll all share in the victory, no matter who comes first.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 
 
 
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”
Clint Eastwood
 
 
 
 
“We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.”
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”
John D. Rockefeller