Political Figure Quotes

“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”

“It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.”

“Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”

“Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.”

“Manipulate the situation to create the reality of your desire”

“I never waste time looking back.”

“To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.”

“I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.”

“Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.”

“I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.”

“A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.”

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”

“The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.”

“Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.”

“I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife.”

“A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.”

“Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.”

“You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with”

“I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.”

“If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.”

“Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.”

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”