Quotes Rj-Roo
"I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of
freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of
despair and fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace
can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail." -- Paul Robeson
"Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of
superior people." -- John D. Rockefeller
"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
-- Paul Rodriguez
"When . . . someone really hears you without passing judgement on you,
without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you,
it feels damn good . . . When I have been listening to and when I have been
heard, I am able to reperceive my world in a new way and go on. It is
astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone
listens." -- Carl Rogers
"At the center of the universe is a loving heart that continues to beat
and that wants the best for every person. Anything we can do to help
forster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human
beings . . . that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision
must continue against all odds. Life is for service." -- Fred Rogers
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there." -- Will Rogers
"If you need to feel hope, you're courting despair, and if you court
despair you will stop working. So try to wean yourself from this need to
have hope. Try to have faith instead, to do what you can, and stop
worrying about whether or not you're effective...Worry about what is
possible for you to do, which is always greater than you imagine."
-- Oscar Romero
"While I oppose capital punishment, anyone caught cutting a page out of
a bookin a library should be put to death." -- Andy Rooney
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which
you really stop to look fear in the face." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"It is not the critic who counts,not the man that points out how the
strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose
face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiently, who errs
and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great
devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best, knows in the
end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails
while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and
timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"The only person who never makes a mistake is the person who never does
anything." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we
are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is
softness of head." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"We're born naked, and the rest is drag." -- RuPaul
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