Made It Quotes - Page 24

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of women’s rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did.

Louis Menand

Kings, Past, Opportunity

"The Sex Amendment". www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2014.

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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Heart, Wish, World

Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.16, Macmillan

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Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

Robert A. Heinlein

Want, Existential, Accepting

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The ad industry isn't struggling for a new set of principles or abandoning the ones that made it great from the start. It's simply in the midst of a business cycle. I don't think it's more profound than that. And despite the economic downturn, I'm having more fun today than at any other moment in my 30-year advertising career. The game is more interesting and more relevant than ever.

Rochelle B Lazarus

Fun, Struggle, Thinking

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She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

Cesar Millan

Real, Healing, Mean

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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

Thomas Carlyle

Science, Fire, Clouds

Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.7

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Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.

Orison Swett Marden

Life, Stars, Flower

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If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Country, Freedom, America

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You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

Mitchell Reiss

Play, Cards, Done

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The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

John Steinbeck

Men, Wrath, Monsters

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.27, Hamilton Books

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Your soul is the root, its the root of everything. And when He tells you how to handle sex, He made it, its awesome, its beautiful, it has a purpose. And when He tells you how to handle it, there's a reason He says, This is connected to your soul and if you misuse it, your soul will wilt and will waste away. You can use it how you want to because you have the freedom to do that but in the end I'm telling you how to have the life to the fullest.

Lacey Mosley

Beautiful, Jesus, Sex

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Elder Neal A. Maxwell suggests that the prime reason the Savior personally acts as the gatekeeper of the celestial kingdom is not to exclude people, but to personally welcome and embrace those who have made it back home.

Tad R. Callister

Jesus, Home, People

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My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Brother, Inspiration, Kids

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Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

Flannery O'Connor

Giving, Grace, Weakness

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I showed her how I'd been making tiny cuts in my skin to let the badness and the pain leak out. They were shallow at first, and short, like claw marks made by a desperate cat that wanted to hid under the front porch. Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Hurt, Pain, Cat

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In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

Aldo Leopold

Rivers, Environmental, Easy

Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

Woodrow Wilson

Success, Men, Should Have

First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

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Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

Ayn Rand

Brother, Giving Up, Talking

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Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

David R. Brower

Agriculture, Diversity, Firsts

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With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

Jim Ryun

Army, Jewels, America

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I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.

Sylvia Browne

Grief, Sides, Bliss

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If man made it, don't eat it.

Jack LaLanne

Health, Men, Made

"She’s Got (Lots of) It" by Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. February 2, 2011.

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Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.

Joel Osteen

Hurt, Disappointment, Mistake

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When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

Tim McGraw

Song, Artist, Made

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You know you've made it when you can dye your hair blue.

Demi Lovato

Hair, Blue, Barbie Dolls

"Allure Beauty Diaries: Demi Lovato Talks Hair, Makeup, and X Factor Beauty". Interview With Catherine Quinn O'neill, www.allure.com. August 10, 2012.

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