
Samuel Labi
Professor, Purdue University
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
(William Shakespeare)
We're made to grow. Either you evolve or you disappear.
(Tupac Shakur)
The elevation of appearance over substance displays a poverty of ambition.
(Barack Obama)
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
(Malcolm X)
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
(Helen Keller)
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
(Mark Twain)
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
(Aesop)
The needs of society determine its ethics.
(Maya Angelou)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
(Aristotle)
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
(Martin Luther King Jr. )
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
(Mahatma Gandhi)
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
(William Shakespeare)
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
(Bible, Mark iv. 9. )
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
(Oscar Wilde)
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
(Confucius)
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
(George Bernard Shaw)
Knowledge is like timber: it shouldn't be much used till it is seasoned.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
(Charles Dickens)
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
(Steve Jobs)
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.
(Confucius)
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
(Mark Twain
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
(Martin Luther King Jr. )
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
(Helen Keller)
The fool thinks he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
(William Shakespeare)
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
(Aristotle)
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
(George Bernard Shaw)
The tree is known by its fruit.
(Bible, Matthew xii. 33. )
The cautious seldom err.
(Confucius)
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
(Bertrand Russell)
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
(Steve Jobs)
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
(Mark Twain)
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
(Maya Angelou)
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
(Helen Keller)