The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity.
- Topic: Justice, Leadership, Love, Money
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the “oughtness” that forever confronts him.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property will be safe.
Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
Accept things to which fate binds you, love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.
I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.
When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
The most popular labor-saving device is still money.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money to do more for the betterment of life.
Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one's material circumstances.
There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.
