A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
He who sells what isn’t his’n, Must buy it back or go to prison.
We must all build national unity, build all revolutionary forces, into one powerful wave to sweep away our main enemy, political imperialism and economic imperialism.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things – but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.
Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can’t see how it’s possible to get what they want, so they don’t even let themselves want it.
We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress.
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
I’m not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
The word must is not to be used to princes.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
