Elizabeth Keckley Quotes

Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it.

Elizabeth Keckley

• Master
• Prevent
• Whip

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Speech
  • Master
  • Policies

• I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Role
  • Master
  • Disappear

• I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Rap

• Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Powerful
  • Acting
  • Revolution

• Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Artist
  • Master
  • Material

• When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Changes

• I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hard
  • Bitter
  • Master

• The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Power

• Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Past
  • Air
  • Road

• We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Master
  • Regardless
  • Salesman

• [Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Master
  • Yorgos Lanthimos

• He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Opinions
  • Master
  • Bigot

• A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all things. He thinks the world is his without bonds. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Only when he tramps the mountains alone, communing with nature, observing other insignificant creatures about him, to come and go as he will, does he awaken to his own short-lived presence on earth.

  

  Finis Mitchell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Truth

• I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Property
  • Don't Believe
  • Wealthy

• The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Voice
  • Master

• The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

  

  Confucius
  • Gentleman
  • Master
  • Understands

• I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Remember
  • Values
  • Table

• When I write a song today, basically it goes on the stage tomorrow. That's the way it works. You cannont interrupt your consciousness; it all comes from the subconscious, it can happen anywhere. It could be in a telephone booth.

  

  Richie Havens
  • Consciousness
  • Telephone
  • Write Songs

• In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

  

  Thomas More
  • Art
  • War
  • Interest

• Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it.

  

  Elizabeth Keckley
  • Master
  • Prevent
  • Whip