Jason Reynolds Quotes

Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.

Jason Reynolds

• Courage
• Fly
• Integrity
• Jump

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Courage
  • Tolerance
  • Test

• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Up
  • Political
  • Courage

• I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Fear
  • Amazing
  • Water

• A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Why
  • May
  • Focus

• We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Small
  • Fly
  • Airplane

• You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Help

• A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Hero
  • Heroic

• I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • New
  • Fly
  • New York

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Different
  • Know
  • Facts

• 'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Black
  • Myself

• Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Fall

• Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Hope
  • Dream
  • Fly

• A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Success
  • Couple
  • Successful

• If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Women
  • Why
  • Space

• Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Respect
  • Like
  • Courage

• With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Important
  • War
  • Jump

• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • History
  • Pain
  • Courage

• Musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • History

• I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Karma

• … even scarier is why people have stopped thinking global warming is real. One major reason, pollsters say, is, 'we had a very cold, snowy winter'. Which is like saying the sun might not be real because last night it got dark.

  

  Bill Maher
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Reason

• Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Courage
  • Fly
  • Integrity