Quotes July 03, 2021

Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.
Wendy Flynn – Consultant
 
 
 
 
If you can dance and be free and not be embarrassed, you can rule the world.
Amy Poehler – Actress-Writer-Comedian-Producer
 
 
 
 
I thrive on obstacles. If I’m told that it can’t be done, then I push harder.
Issa Rae – Actress-Writer-Producer
 
 
 
 
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt – 1884-1962 – Former First Lady of the United States
 
 
 
 
“Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”
Florence Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
George Moore
 
 
 
 
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
Bertrand Russell
 
 
 
 
Democracy means a great many things to a great many people. But it must never be a quiet business.
Anthony Romero,
civil liberties advocate
 
 
 
 
Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.
Janelle Monae,
singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, model
 
 
 
 
You don’t have to choose between doing good and doing well. It’s a false choice, today more than ever.
Tim Cook,
CEO of Apple
 
 
 
 
To start, we just need to change one simple word. Change ‘why’ to ‘what.’
Lauren Esposito,
arachnologist, co-founder of 500 Queer Scientists
 
 
 
 
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell,
poet, diplomat