In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change – as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
I asked long ago,’What must I do to be saved?’ The Scripture answered, ‘Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love.’ I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
If everybody loves you, you must be doing something wrong. It means there’s no button being pushed… The only way that everybody loves you is toward the end of your career.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
We’re put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
And we forget because we must and not because we will.
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination – these must become standard global operating conditions.
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
