William H. Hastie Quotes

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

William H. Hastie

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• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Change
  • Challenges
  • Victory

• Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Why
  • Best
  • Thought

• You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Impact
  • Generosity

• Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Law
  • Control
  • Victory

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Giving
  • Always
  • Never

• From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Job
  • Giving
  • Thought

• The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • May
  • Strong
  • Victory

• I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • Mistakes
  • Ship

• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  

  Sallust
  • May
  • Nature
  • Law

• The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Important
  • Nature

• The holy march on which the Arab nation insists, will carry us forward from one victory to another ... the flag of freedom which flies over Baghdad today will fly over Amman and Riyadh. Yes, the flag of freedom which flies over Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad today will fly over the rest of the Middle East

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Today
  • Freedom
  • Rest

• When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy them, but now they call this free will. At least the Greeks were being honest.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

  

  Jo Ann Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Together
  • High
  • Giving

• I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Why
  • History
  • Freedom

• Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.

  

  Eric Horvitz
  • Idea
  • Visions
  • Technologists

• History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

  

  William H. Hastie
  • Giving
  • Victory
  • Mistakes