Lecturer Quotes

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

This [the Holocaust] must never happen again. ...
Be vigilant about your rights.
Care about the rights and human dignity of others.
When the rights of any group, no matter how small,
no matter how marginal, are violated,
your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers, Ph.D., Professor of History,
University of Pennsylvania, in the closing remarks
of his six-hour Teaching Company audio lecture series

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

Never quit.
- Anonymous

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- James Allen

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland

Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer

Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon

Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

Great men or men of great gifts
you shall easily find,
but symmetrical men never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie