Able Quotes - Page 2

Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know before whom you kneel.

Life is all about moments. No one in history has ever been able to hold on to one.

Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible.

Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how we might be an oppressor and how we might be able to become liberators for ourselves and for each other.

To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

It is more important to do what is strategically right than what is immediately profitable.

I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.

The greatest test of faith is when you don't get what you want, but still you are able to say Thank You Lord.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Dont put the sheep on the table.

Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

To be very honest, I cannot drape a saree myself. I have never draped one on my own, ever. But it has been done on me so many times, that now I have memorised all the steps, and if someone challenges me, I will surely be able to do it.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.

A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.