Here we have the best Must Quotes from famous authors such as Gabrielle Giffords, Dalai Lama, Jose Rizal, Soren Kierkegaard, Jawaharlal Nehru. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt – in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure – to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you’re going to have a strong superstructure.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
What goes up must come down.
Patriotism is love of country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
You must lose everything in order to gain anything.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.
It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
The young people I know judge leaders by their deeds and abhor hypocrisy. Inconsistency and point-scoring do not win respect. It’s not easy to be engaged in political debate when it is reduced to performers trying to outdo each other. Actions from leaders must mirror the values they claim to espouse.
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.
Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough – there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility – along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure – would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.
The right is ours. Have it we must. Use it we will.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
To be number one, you must train like you are number two.
Creating a better world requires teamwork, partnerships, and collaboration, as we need an entire army of companies to work together to build a better world within the next few decades. This means corporations must embrace the benefits of cooperating with one another.
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can’t see how it’s possible to get what they want, so they don’t even let themselves want it.
The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
People must not believe in rumours. Even those who are spreading rumours and fake news must realize that they are not only disturbing others, but also putting their own lives at risk.
Any good music must be an innovation.
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‘I am deaf.’ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change – as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don’t have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone… and not just for a few.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Art must take reality by surprise.
Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
To keep attracting good new jobs, we must invest in more job training and education to prepare young people and workers at every age for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.
If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
To add value to others, one must first value others.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force… We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
There is no must in art because art is free.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Leaders must establish common purpose and build trust within an organization.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon… must inevitably come to pass!
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!’
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.
We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
With foxes we must play the fox.
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
There is no short-cut to success. Whether you want to be an engineer, a charted accountant or a fashion model you must work hard.
We must guard against disrespectful, disparaging, and criticizing thoughts. We must try to practice reverence and devotion in our thinking at all times.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional – your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
Disability is articulated as a struggle, an unnecessary burden that one must overcome to the soundtrack of a string crescendo. But disabled lives are multi-faceted – brimming with personality, pride, ambition, love, empathy, and wit.
To create something you must be something.
Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination – these must become standard global operating conditions.
Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
We must all build national unity, build all revolutionary forces, into one powerful wave to sweep away our main enemy, political imperialism and economic imperialism.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.
What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media… So we must try to use social media in a good way.
The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
If the ride is more fly, then you must buy.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won’t be able to do this.
It only serves to show what sort of person a man must be who can’t even get testimonials. No, no; if a man brings references, it proves nothing; but if he can’t, it proves a great deal.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer – its guarantor. The people’s votes and the people’s guns are always inseparable twins.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.
Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
We must listen to the concerns of our people without dismissing them. When people see something wrong, there is something wrong. When our people see corruption, it means there is corruption. When our people see that their resources are being stolen by certain people, it means this is happening, and we should listen.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory… of how we are taking responsibility.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it’s Colin.
I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Into each life some rain must fall.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can’t play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Great loves too must be endured.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Life must be lived as play.
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Our aspiration must be to reform, upgrade and enlarge our education system – and to make it relevant to 21st century realities of the digital economy, genomics, robotics and automation.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug‘s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients‘ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
When genocide is committed, it must be seen. People must look at it with open eyes, not minimize its impact.
To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.
Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
We’re put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth – not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
I’m of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what’s ‘trendy‘ because true passion always eclipses what’s fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while, good governance must be earned.
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.
The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.
So the lover must struggle for words.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‘Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?’ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
Leaders must exemplify integrity and earn the trust of their teams through their everyday actions. When you do this, you set high standards for everyone at your company. And when you do so with positive energy and enthusiasm for shared goals and purpose, you can deeply connect with your team and customers.
Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people.
Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
Because beauty isn’t enough, there must be something more.
We must act out passion before we can feel it.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values – that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things – but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.
I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.
If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life… I think I must have been crying for some attention.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
We must be headlights and not taillights.
