💬 Quotes

"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."

"Virtue is its own reward, and sometimes a heavy one; but it is the only one that lasts beyond the grave."

"Men's vows are women's traitors."

"Fortune is like the market, where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall."

"I am sorry, my friend. But there are times when a man must choose between his ease and his integrity."

"Life is a stage, and it matters little what part one plays so long as one plays it with grace and courage."

"A great wrong does not right itself; it requires the weight of human resolve to tip the scales back toward justice."

"The heart has its own reasons, independent of logic or circumstance, and it holds fast to what it loves despite the world."

"In the quiet moments before the storm, a man discovers the true measure of his spirit."

"Freedom is not a gift bestowed by the powerful; it is a hard-won conquest of the human spirit."

"Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master."

"Select the kind of business suited to your talents... You must not suppose that all you have to do is to sit down and expect to make fortune."

"You cannot accumulate a fortune by taking the road that leads to destruction... clear the road of every impediment in your way."

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned."

"Read the newspapers... Keep posted as to what is going on in the world. The man who is out of the world is out of the business."

"Let hope predominate, but be thoroughly prepared for the worst contingencies."

"If you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do."

"The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worthwhile, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples."

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it."

"Philanthropy in education has been largely a matter of getting the Negro to accept what the white man thinks he ought to have rather than bringing out what is in the Negro."