"You are in charge of your own attitude……" — Marian Wright Edelman
"You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage."
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121 Quotes by Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman has 121 quotes on this site.
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Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
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Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights…
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The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not…
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Service is what life is all about.
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Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher,…
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I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something…
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It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time…
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We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn…
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I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and…
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Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do…
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When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or…
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The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left…
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More Aptitude Quotes
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one of 102 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
— Anton Chekhov
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The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all…
— Denis Waitley
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Your attitude is more important that your aptitude.
— Zig Ziglar
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In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who…
— Proclus
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Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a…
— Nelson Mandela
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The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Being in your element is not only about aptitude, it's about passion: it is about loving what you do...tapping into…
— Ken Robinson
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In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
— Norm MacDonald
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I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of…
— Samuel Johnson
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If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise…
— Herbert Spencer
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People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in…
— George Leef
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