M. Jackson Quotes
No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.
People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.
You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end.
It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
Sleep is for those people who are broke. I don't sleep. I've got an opportunity to make a dream become a reality.
The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.
Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.
We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.
Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
They don't understand the process I went through and how much I had to believe in myself.
