Life Changing Quotes

“First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me… and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

~ attributed to Pastor Martin Niemoller (the Holocaust)

“There but for the grace of God go I.”

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of conflict and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. ~ Albert Einstein

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. ~ Carl Jung

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convine them, you must yourself believe. ~ Winston Churchill

He that never changes his opinions never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. ~ Tryon Edwards

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~ the Dalai Lama

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~ James Michener

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly ~ proverb

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it. ~ William James

When walking through the “valley of shadows”, remember…
a shadow is cast by a Light. ~ John Lancaster Spalding

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life… and not something you do in your spare time. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ~ George Bernard Shaw