Muhammad Ali quotes

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want Muhammad Ali

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion
Muhammad Ali

 

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life Muhammad Ali

 

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything Muhammad Ali

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize Muhammad Ali

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain Muhammad Ali

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you Muhammad Ali

 

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even Muhammad Ali

 

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe Muhammad Ali

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change Muhammad Ali

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth Muhammad Ali

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one Muhammad Ali

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are Muhammad Ali

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I believe in the goodness of others Muhammad Ali

The man who has no imagination has no wings Muhammad Ali

My trainer tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. All I want to know is did I win the round. It's too late for advice Muhammad Ali

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark Muhammad Ali

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life Muhammad Ali

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world Muhammad Ali

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day Muhammad Ali

Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again Muhammad Ali

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am Muhammad Ali

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ Muhammad Ali

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges Muhammad Ali

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong Muhammad Ali

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am Muhammad Ali

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God Muhammad Ali

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life Muhammad Ali

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world Muhammad Ali

Silence is gold when you can't think of a good answer Muhammad Ali

My principles are more important than the money or my title Muhammad Ali

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far
Muhammad Ali

It's not bragging if you can back it up Muhammad Ali

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.There are more pleasant things to do than beat people up  Muhammad Ali

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace Muhammad Ali

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world Muhammad Ali

Superman don’t need seat belt Muhammad Ali

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was Muhammad Ali

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round Muhammad Ali

 

I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill Muhammad Ali

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month? Muhammad Ali

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest Muhammad Ali

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing Muhammad Ali

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win Muhammad Ali 

 

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong Muhammad Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee Muhammad Ali

Kahlil Gibran's quotes

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, for only the hand of Life can contain your hearts
And stand together, yet not too near together, for the pillars of the temple stand apart and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow
#KahlilGibran

Your children are not your children, they are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself
They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts
You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday
#KahlilGibran



You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance
#KahlilGibran


Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil, for what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters
#KahlilGibran

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes
#KahlilGibran

You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.
Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.
And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver , and an instrument of giving.
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness
#KahlilGibran

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

#KahlilGibran

Work is love made visible
#KahlilGibran

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
The astronomer may spaeak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
The musician may sing to you of the rythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rythm nor the voice that echoes it
And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man
#KahlilGibran

There are those who give little of the much which they have – and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome
And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty
#KahlilGibran

Y.B Mangunwijaya (Romo Mangun) Quotes

• Patriotisme bukan seperti yang diindoktrinasikan orang-orang kolot zaman agraris itu. Aku tetap cinta Tanah Air, tetapi tidak dalam arti birokrat. Cinta saya kepada Tanah Air dan bangsa kuungkapkan secara masa kini, zaman generasi pascanasionalisme. Jika aku menjadi orang, pribadi, sosok jelas, yang menyumbang sesuatu yang berharga dan indah kepada bangsa manusia, disitulah letak kecintaanku kepada bangsa dan nasion #RomoMangun 

• Dunia dagang adalah dunia keras dan kejam, lebih keji daripada medan pertempuran tentara, ya kecuali kalau dunia angkatan perang sudah menjadi dunia bisnis, nah, itu terkecuali. Kata yang berlaku dalam dunia kami bukan kesetiaan, tetapi efektif dan efisien, paling tidak, produktif, nilai tambah, penggaetan kesempatan, pembelian fasilitas, dan itu sering berarti spionase usaha dan hasil pihak lawan, kalau mungkin ya menyerobot penemuan paten, hak cipta, dan kelihaian pengacara penasihat hukum untuk menerobos lubang-lubang di antara pasal-pasal hukum perdata maupun pidana. Lalu apa fungsi kesetiaan dalam dunia kami? #RomoMangun 

• yang satu butuh apa, yang lain memerlukan apa lain lagi. Adil kan tidak berarti sama rata sama rasa #RomoMangun

• Pesta Yunani, pesta kaum demokrat yang membuktikan betapa filsafat dan kegembiraan murni benar-benar adalah saudara sekandung, karena kedua-duanya lahir dari rahim keindahan, yang tiada lain ialah cahaya cerlang keteraturan dan kebenaran, yang telah dibuahi oleh benih segala yang baik, baik melulu, baik murni, baik manusiawi #RomoMangun

• Tanah air adalah tempat penindasan diperangi, tempat perang diubah menjadi kedamaian, kira-kira begitu. Tempat kawan manusia diangkat menjadi manusiawi, oleh siapa pun yang ikhlas berkorban. Dan patriotisme masa kini adalah solidaritas dengan yang lemah, yang hina, yang miskin, yang tertindas #RomoMangun

• Dunia lambang tidak harus mengikuti logika dan etika tersendiri, bahkan boleh disebut juga suatu supralogika yang melayang bagaikan awan-awan di atas gunung dan lembah, namun yang mengandung uap air mati-hidup bagi segala yang di bawahnya #RomoMangun

• Manusia tertawa jika dia terjepit dalam situasi antara logika dan kenyataan yang berbenturan tanpa dia dapat menguasainya #RomoMangun

• Lama aku memandang ke semburan-semburan lidah api yang meleleh ke bawah itu. Elok, ya, indah. Banyak yang kejam keji tampak indah dari kejauhan #RomoMangun

• Orang yang lari dari dunia yang satu harus menemukan dunia yang baru untuk bisa bertahan diri #RomoMangun

• Setiap angkatan punya medan juang dan pahlawan mereka sendiri, jangan didramatisir #RomoMangun

• Perempuan adalah bumi, yang menumbuhkan padi dan singkong, tetapi juga yang akhirnya memeluk jenazah-jenazah manusia yang pernah dikandungnya dan disusuinya #RomoMangun

• orang itu kalau sudah fanatik agama kejamnya bukan main. Kejam atas nama Tuhan, kontradiksi yang aneh sekali, tetapi begitulah manusia #RomoMangun

• Mengatakan bahwa sebuah teks bermakna 'tunggal' - oleh guru sekolah - merupakan suatu perkosaan terhadap prinsip pluralitas makna yang dimungkinkan di dalam semiotika. Mengatakan bahwa makna sebuah teks atau gambar harus mengikuti pemaknaan golongan tertentu merupakan satu bentuk represi tekstual #RomoMangun

• Negeri ini sungguh-sungguh membutuhkan pemberani-pemberani yang gila, asal cerdas. Bukan yang tahu adat, yang berkepribadian pribumi, yang suka harmoni, yang saleh alim, yang nurut model kuli dan babu #RomoMangun

• Uang tidak kucari dan emas membuatku menggeleng kepala. Hidup damai yang tahu bahasa bintang adalah pamrihku #RomoMangun

• Setiap strategi yang sehat dan benar harus selalu berusaha mereduksi pihak lawan seminimum mungkin dan merangkul kawan sebanyak mungkin, sambil membujuk sebanyak mungkin lawan menjadi kawan, terserah apa latar belakangnya. Gerakan yang berkebiasaan membuat musuh di mana-mana amatlah bodoh #RomoMangun

• tokoh sejarah dan pahlawan sejati harus kita temukan kembali di antara kaum rakyat biasa yang sehari-hari, yang barangkali kecil dalam harta maupun kuasa, namun besar dalam kesetiaannya demi kehidupan #RomoMangun 

• Indonesia ini memang negeri yang unik, penuh dengan hal-hal yang seram serius, tetapi penuh dagelan dan badutan juga. Mengerikan tapi lucu, dilarang justru dicari dan amat laku, dianjurkan, disuruh tetapi malah diboikot, kalah tetapi justru menjadi amat populer dan menjadi pahlawan khalayak ramai, berjaya tetapi keok celaka, fanatik anti PKI tetapi berbuat persis PKI, terpeleset tetapi dicemburui, aman tertib tetapi kacau balau, ngawur tetapi justru disenangi, sungguh misterius tetapi gamblang bagi semua orang. Membuat orang yang sudah banyak makan garam seperti saya ini geleng-geleng kepala tetapi sekaligus kalbu hati cekikikan. Entahlah, saya tidak tahu. Gelap memprihatinkan tetapi mengandung harapan fajar menyingsing, itulah Indonesia #RomoMangun

Fidel Castro's Quotes

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
#FidelCastro 

Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me
#FidelCastro 

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun
#FidelCastro 

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers
#FidelCastro 

A revolution is not a trail of roses. A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past
#FidelCastro 

They talk about the failure of socialism, but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
#FidelCastro 

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity

#FidelCastro 

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned econom
#FidelCastro 

Quote Karl Marx

 

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it
#KarlMarx

Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
#KarlMarx

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.
#KarlMarx

People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through
#KarlMarx

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
#KarlMarx

I am nothing but I must be everything
#KarlMarx


To be radical is to grasp things by the root
#KarlMarx


Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
#KarlMarx

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded
#KarlMarx

The road to hell is paved with good intentions
#KarlMarx

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people
#KarlMarx

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female
#KarlMarx


I find television and radio very uneducating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
#KarlMarx

Workingmen of all countries, unite!
#KarlMarx