Quotes

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“You have got to know what it is you want, or someone is going to sell you a bill of goods somewhere along the line that can do irreparable damage to your self-esteem, your sense of worth, and your stewardship of the talents that God gave you.”

— Richard Nelson Bolles

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Muriel Strode (a similar quote exists by Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”

— Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Columnist

“If you put fences around people, you get sheep.”

— William McKnight, Former 3M CEO

“No matter how educated or wealthy you are,
if you don’t have peace of mind, you won’t be happy.”

— His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

“There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.”

— Joan Kirner, at Women into Power Conference, Adelaide, October 1994

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”

— Corrie Ten Boom

“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“So I grew up feeling that I wasn’t good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one’s perfect, we’re not meant to be perfect. We’re meant to be complete. But it’s hard to be complete if you’re trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.” ” And if you don’t own your strength… Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who… “Who’s the leader? Who’s the smart one?” Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.”

— Jane Fonda, Interviewed by Andrew Denton on Enough Rope, ABC TV, Australia

“I am not pro-this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti-injustice, anti-oppression.”

— Naim Ateek, brother of Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town and chairman of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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