Quotes - Frans Borman (South Africa) Showing 1-30 of 74

#1

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

tags: inspirational

8059 likes

#2

“We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

491 likes

#3

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

344 likes

#4

“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: fame, greatness

254 likes

#5

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

267 likes

#6

“If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

149 likes

#7

“We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. ”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

115 likes

#8

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
― Andre Gide

tags: integrity, moral-courage, self-esteem

501 likes

#9

“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
― Maya Angelou

tags: music

2322 likes

#10

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
― Saint Francis of Assisi

tags: art, craft, labor

762 likes

#11

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

10770 likes

#12

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

11219 likes

#13

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

tags: carpe-diem, future, present

2612 likes

#14

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

4487 likes

#15

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
― Albert Camus

tags: beatitudes, blessed, unbreakable

2984 likes

#16

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

tags: autumn

2831 likes

#17

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

tags: civilization, writers, writing

2088 likes

#18

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: on-fiction

2742 likes

#19

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

tags: love

6199 likes

#20

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: inspirational

4421 likes

#21

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

tags: design, exupery, perfection

1176 likes

#22

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN

tags: absence, existence, fear, hurt, love, risk

2494 likes

#23

“Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

230 likes

#24

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
― Albert Camus

2434 likes

#25

“I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”
― Albert Camus

918 likes

#26

“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
― Albert Camus

tags: albert-camus, lecture, philosophy, sleep

952 likes

#27

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

1505 likes

#28

“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
― Albert Camus

tags: absurdism

714 likes