Morning Coffee Quotes for November 17th

Me, the morning of my 50th birthday (Nov 14th) on the shores of Lake Michigan - photo by Dan Caraway

“There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.”
- W.E.B. DuBois

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
- Charles Dickens

“Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.”
- John W. Tukey

“Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.”
- Shannon L. Alder

“You're only lonely if you're not there for you.”
- Phil McGraw

“The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.”
- Milton Friedman

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.”
- Langston Hughes

“He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.”
- Jacques Anatole

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
- William Penn

“There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.”
- William Hazlitt

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
- Harriet Tubman

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”
- Pearl Bailey

“Forget what other people think. Screw the hype. A job title is only a title. Money pays bills; it does not create happiness or move us to tears. Earn enough, give some away and stop believing it is the friggin’ authority on value.”
- Amy Selwyn

“The greatest gift you can give is just being present.”
- Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.”
- Miroslav Volf