Knowing Quote by Carlos P. Romulo

“I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.”

Carlos P. Romulo

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A strengthened national spirit can provide the motive power to rise our people from the depths and... pour new life and vigor in the national system. The reinvigoration of the national spirit must take place in the grass roots, in every city, town and barrio in the Philippines, and it must start among our own people... To be a worthy…

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“Don Alejandro cut in with advice I have never forgotten. "It is only when a man knows reason is not on his side that…

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“From this time on, my life would be written in headlines, but I am not concerned with them. It was the marginal notations of…

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“I am a Filipino born to freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance—for myself and my…

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I feel like a Gold surrounded by Silver!

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“The presidency of the United Nations was not thrust upon me overnight. I had to grow up to the measurements it demanded of a proponent of peace. This was done session by session, step by step. It entailed trips halfway around the world, again and again. It demanded nights without sleep, studying, writing, poring over documents; days without rest; and…

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“For my grandchildren . . . and all children—this book is written with hopes of the time to come, when no child shall lie…

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“To do my best, to increase and never lessen my country's pride was the underlying motivation of all I might attempt. ... I had…

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Never forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritual country. Yes, I know you're a practical people. Like others, I've marveled at your factories, your…

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“For freedom would not be easy. It never is. It would be more difficult for the Philippines than for many countries, because we had to face the fact that the islands, although potentially rich, had not tapped their resources. We were a poor country and a small one, and we could not afford to be hurled unprepared into competition with…

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“I knew nothing at all of the art of diplomacy, which I have since diagnosed as the ability to make the nastiest possible comment…

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Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations…

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