R. B. Thomas Quotes

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

There is no substitute for Hard Work.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy

Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

he who feeds you, controls you

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating.

I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

We must dare to invent the future

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

Never be shamed of being Afrikan

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.

Tomorrow Is My Exam But I Don’t Care Because A Single Sheet Of Paper Can’t Decide My Future

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.