United Way Inspirational Quotes

#1. Our United States "State religion" has become Secular Humanism which has no "separation from the State.

James C. Campbell

#2. Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

Ban Ki-moon

#3. The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing ... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#4. They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

Mark Twain

#5. My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

John Hope Franklin

#6. And the greatest adventure is not going to the moon - the greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core.

Osho

#7. We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people ...

T. Rafael Cimino

#8. When fully united, without ego or weakness, we become the greatest invisible force this world has ever witnessed.

Luis Marques

#9. I give strong advice, but I don't expect it to be followed.

Baba Kalyani

#10. The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.

Albert Schweitzer

#11. If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'

Alex Ferguson

#12. In France, philosophers are celebrities. In the United States, celebrities are philosophers.

Peter Carlson

#13. Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

Prince Charles

#14. Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.

William Bailey

#15. We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

Mercedes Lackey

#16. God covers United people with His glory

Paul Gitwaza

#17. I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.

Edwina Currie

#18. You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

Garrett Hedlund

#19. Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Lord Byron

#20. People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. It's very tribal in a way - savage!

Meredith Ostrom

#21. She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself.

Margaret Landon

#22. Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in her keynote speech to the United Nations, 12th July 2013.

Malala Yousafzai

#23. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. Why would I want to be President of the United States? I'm the King of Disneyland.

Walt Disney Company

#25. People like to be able to identify a brand, and I don't really have one.

Chris Weitz

#26. I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

Gil Scott-Heron

#27. Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

Lincoln Kirstein

#28. If you chase the market, it's not going to come to you. You have to have faith in yourself. I think one of the differences in what I call 'civilians' and 'authors' is that we have an antenna hat buzzing all the time.

David Morrell

#29. In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

Thomas Szasz

#30. The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

Geraldine Brooks

#31. May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Peter Marshall

#32. living means experiencing the world with your mind.

Dima Zales

#33. I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

John F. Kennedy

#34. If you had no language, then what form did your thoughts take - if you thought at all? Of course you thought - she had never had any difficulty with accepting that - but how limited would your thoughts be in the absence of any words to express them?

Alexander McCall Smith

#35. What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we're fearful, we become divided. When we're courageous and have good leadership, we unite.

Keith Ellison

#36. Whenever we are not occupied in one of these ways, but cast upon existence itself, its vain and worthless nature is brought home to us; and this is what we mean by boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer