Jose Rizal Quotes
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He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
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The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
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Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
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I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.
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A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.
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Hold high the brow serene, O youth, where now you stand; Let the bright sheen Of your grace be seen, Fair hope of my fatherland!
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To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.
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Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
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I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.
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Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
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Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.
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The youth is the hope of our future.
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The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.
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It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.
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One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
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Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.
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To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
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When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!
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Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
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She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.
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To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.
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What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
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The example could encourage others who only fear to start.