The World Motivation
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
“Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.”
— W. E. B. Du Bois · Good
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.