Rehabilitation Quotes

• America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

  Steve Earle

  America, Justice, Criminals

  "Death in Texas" by Steve Earle, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.

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• The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Lying, Soul

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• What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

  Jerry Brown

  Prison, Hell, Protect

  Jerry Brown (1976). “Thoughts”

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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• I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

  Lee Tergesen

  Thinking, Cells, People

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• I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

  Frances Lear

  Believe, Nursing, Age

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• If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic.

  Milton Friedman

  Compassion, Punishment, Drug

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

  Conrad Black

  Punishment, Prison, Retribution

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• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

  Michael Korda

  Motivational, Positive, Success

  "Success!" by Michael Korda, (p. 284), 1977.

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• The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Men, Order, Principles

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.48, Univ of California Press

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• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Strength

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”

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• Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Men, Succeed, Defeated

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

  John F. Kennedy

  Motivational, Change, Inspiring

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• The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Air, World, Nations

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  Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

  Bo Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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  Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Want

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

  Mike Royko

  Cities, Criminals, Kind

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital

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• Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

  Charles Rangel

  Decision, May, Felons

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• I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

  Malcolm X

  Respect, Believe, Color

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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