Jo Jordan Quotes
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
To get better you have to step out of your comfort zone. You can't do the same things you've always done & improve.
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.
I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.
The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.
I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me . . . Failure always made me try harder next time.
Wrestlers, you don't just get better from wrestling live. To improve technique, you have to learn it, then drill it. Drilling is key!
I know that stress on me mentally and physically will only help me improve not only as a human being but as a wrestler.
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
Educate a woman and you educate her family. Educate a girl and you change the future.
How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.
As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.
Whether the gods are inside or outside makes very little difference to whether there are gods.
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
"We, the people." It is a very elegant beginning. But when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that "We, the people."