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Inspirational Quotes - Page 13

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Mark Hertzberg, Frank Lloyd Wright (2004). “Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City”, p.11, Pomegranate

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

Back to Methuselah pt. 1, act 1 (1921). This was a favorite quotation of Robert F. Kennedy's, and Edward M. Kennedy used it in his eulogy of Robert Kennedy.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.21, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

"Disunion". Book by Wendell Phillips, January 21, 1861.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

Title of speech to the people of Japan, May 3, 1948, upon the first anniversary of the Japanese constitution. MacArthur, A Soldier Speaks (1965), p. 194. Francis T. Miller, General Douglas MacArthur, Fighter for Freedom, p. 1, 1942.