Howard Thurman Quotes

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1899 - April 10, 1981

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We get caught up in all the stress - 'Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?' - but what about the thing you want to do? That's what'll keep you young. It's empowering, not becoming a prisoner of some other person's idea of what you should be.

Matt Dillon

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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

Anand Giridharadas

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Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.

Tsai Ing-wen

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One day, I received a mail from a female fan saying she had named a star after me. She even mailed me the certificate for it!

Sidharth Malhotra

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People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

Michael Schumacher

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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Joseph Hall

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A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.

Derek Walcott

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My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

Chuck Norris

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Have you ever noticed when people stop laughing, they say, 'Oh dear?'

Bradley Walsh

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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

Arthur Erickson

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I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.

Shaun White

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Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.

Sean Penn

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