William Wilburforce

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.

Dan Janowsky

You find out who you really are when you have to compete against someone else in front of a crowd.

There is a lack of curiosity today because people believe that stuff happens randomly.

You can say that I am an idiot but you can't say I don't try. The only real failure is to not try.

Albert Einstein

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.

The most beautiful experience we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them—these are the best guides for man.

People like you and I, though mortal of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.

The monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

“The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Silas Thompson

Louis L'Amour

A good beginning makes a good end.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Pete Seeger

This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.

I have been singing folksongs of America and other lands to people everywhere. I am proud that I never refused to sing to any group of people because I might disagree with some of the ideas of some of the people listening to me. I have sung for rich and poor, for Americans of every possible political and religious opinion and persuasion, of every race, color, and creed. The House committee wished to pillory me because it didn’t like some few of the many thousands of places I have sung for.

A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

If singing were all that serious, frowning would make you sound better.

Woody Guthrie

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.

All you can write is what you see.

The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine, and any song that says, the pleasures I have seen in all of my trouble, are the things I never can get — don't worry — the human race will sing this way as long as there is a human to race.

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. ... I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you've not any sense at all. But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow.