Top 100 Marti Quotes
#1. 54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors.
Roberto Bolano
#2. When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
(Marti Melville)
Marti Melville
#3. Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.
John Barnes
#4. RUNNERS wearing top-of-the-line shoes are 123 percent more likely to get injured than runners in cheap shoes, according to a study led by Bernard Marti, M.D., a preventative-medicine specialist at Switzerland's University of Bern.
Christopher McDougall
#5. Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.
Mollie Marti
#6. In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.
Jose Marti
#7. It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
Jose Marti
#8. You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate ... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal."
"I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.
John Barnes
#9. Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
Jose Marti
#10. Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
Jose Marti
#11. Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.
Mollie Marti
#12. Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti
#13. One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti
#14. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
Mollie Marti
#15. He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti
#16. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
Jose Marti
#17. It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
Jose Marti
#18. Yet God does exist in the idea of good, which watches over the birth of every being and leaves in the soul embodied in that being one pure tear. Good is God, and the tear the source of eternal feeling.
Jose Marti
#19. Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me?
Mollie Marti
#20. Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything.
Marti Olsen Laney
#21. Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
Jose Marti
#22. I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David .
Jose Marti
#23. The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.
Marti Olsen Laney
#24. you must set her free. If you try to control her, she will hate you for it and you will lose her.
Marti Talbott
#25. To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in, is just thrilling. When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.
Marti Noxon
#26. To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti
#27. Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
Jose Marti
#28. Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
Jose Marti
#29. It is the duty of man to raise up man.
Jose Marti
#30. Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.
Mollie Marti
#31. Mientras mas honda la herida,
Es mi canto mas hermoso.
While more deeper is the wound
The more beautiful the art.
Jose Marti
#32. Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
Jose Marti
#33. Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.
Jose Marti
#34. I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in Somerset, so I have the best of both worlds.
Marti Webb
#35. The second difference between the introvert and the extrovert is how they experience external stimulation. Extroverts like to experience a lot, and introverts like to know a lot about what they experience.
Marti Olsen Laney
#36. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti
#37. Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.
Jose Marti
#38. Literature is the most beautiful of countries
Jose Marti
#39. Guinea Pig never has the same name two weeks in a row. This
Marti Dumas
#40. Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.
Mollie Marti
#41. My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.
Jose Marti
#42. Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.
Mollie Marti
#43. I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in "happily ever after" love, but real love grows over time, and priorities change.
Marti Noxon
#44. This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.
Jose Marti
#45. The utmost form of respect is to give sincerely of your presence.
Mollie Marti
#46. My poems please the brave : My poems, short and sincere , Have the force of steel Which forges swords .
Jose Marti
#47. Absolutely, love exists in this universe.
Marti Noxon
#49. We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Jose Marti
#50. A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Jose Marti
#51. Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller.
Mollie Marti
#52. The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.
Jose Marti
#53. Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
Jose Marti
#54. Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
Jose Marti
#55. One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.
Jose Marti
#56. The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.
Jose Marti
#57. Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
Jose Marti
#58. Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other
Is fed with the necessity of seeing each other
It is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
Alisa Valdes
#59. With every choice you create the life you'll live; with every decision you design it.
Mollie Marti
#61. Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light.
Jose Marti
#62. Your truest spiritual path will lead you to yourself for it is devoted to becoming.
Mollie Marti
#63. Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way to preserve her species.
Marti Olsen Laney
#64. We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Jose Marti
#65. Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
Jose Marti
#66. We are all simply reacting, played by events that occurred centuries before.
Marti Melville
#67. No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
Jose Marti
#68. Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Jose Marti
#69. To beautify life is to give it an object.
Jose Marti
#70. Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Jose Marti
#71. An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Jose Marti
#72. Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.
Jose Marti
#73. People can only be free if they are truly educated.
Jose Marti
#74. The first duty of a man is to think for himself
Jose Marti
#76. Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Jose Marti
#77. A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
Jose Marti
#78. Midnight Omen Deja vu - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean ... at least once in a lifetime.
Marti Melville
#79. Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
Jose Marti
#80. The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes.
Mollie Marti
#81. Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.
Jose Marti
#82. Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Jose Marti
#83. But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Jose Marti
#84. The truthe wakes up once and never dies.
Jose Marti
#85. I always wanted to play Roxie Hart in Chicago and also Sally Bowles in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, but I have a feeling I won't now! I've also always wanted to play Maria in The Sound of Music, but don't suppose I'll ever do that either!
Marti Webb
#86. There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Jose Marti
#87. As part of humanity, each of us is called to develop and share the unique gifts we are given.
Mollie Marti
#88. I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.
Jose Marti
#89. Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.
Mollie Marti
#90. A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
Jose Marti
#91. Charm is a product of the unexpected.
Jose Marti
#92. The only way to be totally free is through education.
Jose Marti
#93. Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth.
Mollie Marti
#94. He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Jose Marti
#96. Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key.
Mollie Marti
#97. Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
Jose Marti
#98. Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat ... between the law of love and the law of hate.
Jose Marti
#99. Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Jose Marti
#100. To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.
Jose Marti
