Reconstruction Quotes

A worker in the rural reconstruction must have:
The body of an athlete
The attitude of a teacher
The mind of a scientist
The heart of a missionary
The spirit of a crusader.
- Jimmy Yen

Related topics: Government Political Service

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Go to the people and live among them
in order to know them and learn from them.
- Jimmy Yen

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw

To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho

I am not the same having seen the moon shine
on the other side of the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus

The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)

We are powerless to redesign the world,
but we have infinite power to create our appreciation of it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

The world is perfect the way it is.
- Werner Erhard

You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

God is, even though the whole world deny him.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman

In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles

It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

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

In the world there is nothing more
submissive and weak than water.
Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong,
nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu

To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

Most of the important things in the world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
- Dale Carnegie

The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates

Know that you are a gift to the world.
Your life is important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau

The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm
but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
- Albert Einstein

No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim

We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan

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