I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
Positive Quotes
I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. — Bob Marley
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington
Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes. — Oliver Sacks
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work! — Tracee Ellis Ross
But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk. — Keri Hulme
Would somebody please explain to me those signs that say, "No animals allowed except for Seeing Eye Dogs?" Who is that sign for? Is it for the dog, or the blind person? — Jerry Seinfeld
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them. — Lori Foster
Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well. — Morgan Freeman
blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. — Jose Saramago
For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent. — Henry David Thoreau
Blind People Quotes
An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. — Simon Bolivar
Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't. — Fanny Crosby
Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way. — Lady Gaga
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets. — Glen Campbell
A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral. — Christopher Hitchens
What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction. — Francis Galton
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity, and security are truly possible for all people who are blind. — Bob Ney
So many people play smaller than their potential because they are blinded by the overwhelming nature of the problem and don’t realize that they themselves can come up with the solution and execute. — Tom Bilyeu
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides. — Heinrich Heine
Blind Man Quotes
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. — Albert Einstein
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. — Saadi Shirazi
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. — Oscar Wilde
Be the one who makes everyone feel like someone!
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. — Charles Darwin
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. — Rodney Dangerfield
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light. — John Calvin
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. — Homer
A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it. — Alvin Toffler
After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine. — Frederic Chopin
Being Blind Quotes
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. — Malcolm X
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard
I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking. — Saddam Hussein
How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk with love.
If you are not in love, how can you enjoy
the blinding light of the sun,
the soft light of the moon? — Omar Khayyam
If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind...for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour. — Fanny Crosby
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I can guide you if you feel blind, I just need you to be willing to journey into my ILL Mind. — Hopsin
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. — H. G. Wells
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind. — Sayings
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Colorblind Quotes
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world. — Oliver Sacks
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. — Michelle Alexander
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. — John Marshall Harlan
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting. — Gabrielle Union
I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money to a colorblind roulette addict than put it in the stock market. — Dennis Miller
I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family. — Michael Jackson
The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school. — William H. Gray III
I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind. — Michael Rosenbaum
Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy. — Wesley Morris
Mothers-in-law are fine so long as they are deaf and blind. — Yiddish Proverbs
If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses! — Helen Keller
Love for something makes a man blind and deaf. — African Proverbs
Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan — Carlos Castaneda
Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway. — Geoffrey Moore
Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant. — George A. Sheehan
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway. — Geoffrey Moore
Blind And Deaf Quotes
I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf. — Claude Monet
Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism. — Charles Spurgeon
The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege. — Marilyn French
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity. — Helen Keller
The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it. — Carlos Castaneda
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. — Proverbs
Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around. — Carlos Castaneda
No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person. — Theodore Zeldin
Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem? — Charles Stanley
It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits. — Tom Waits
Even when we're blindfolded, even when you're wearing sunglasses, even in the pitch black of night, we can always tell if you just ogled another woman. — Maria Bartiromo
Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die. — Waris Dirie
I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it. — Gordon Ramsay
A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold. — John D. MacDonald
There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup. — Robbie Savage
It'll be all right, my fine fellow," said the Otter. "I'm coming along with you, and I know every path blindfold; and if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it. — Kenneth Grahame
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. — Thomas Jefferson
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts. — Burton Malkiel
Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like. — Chester Bennington
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. — Chanakya
Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate. — Michael Redhill
When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it would be appropriate to stop. Feelings of anger can also be in response in situations where we would expect other emotions. I have noted that sadness may be expressed as anger. — Tony Attwood
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. — T. S. Eliot
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period. — Ivanka Trump
I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person. — Patrick Henry Hughes
We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging. — Joyce Meyer
I'm a nice person! I have healthy life drives and goals! I don't drink, I don't smoke. I would never force myself sexually on a blind person! — Woody Allen
The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all. — Robert Kiyosaki
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life. — James Hillman
Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category. — Hank Green
Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters. — Jose Saramago
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark. — John Singer Sargent
A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction. — James A. Baldwin
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. — Helen Keller
Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto. — Tim Ferriss
The person who thinks with [their] own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner. — Errico Malatesta
To a worldly man, a God-intoxicated person will appear mad and he will laugh at him, But to the God-intoxicated man, the worldly appear insane, foolish, misled, blind. — Sathya Sai Baba
The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others. — Bruno Bettelheim
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. — Helen Keller
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. — Olympia Brown
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss. — Marguerite Young
To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful. — Brennan Manning
I was blinded by being a romantic person. — Sienna Miller
Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins
The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. It's like being blind. You aren't less of a person, but you're missing out on wonderful things. — Sandra Cisneros
The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure. — Joan D. Chittister
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is. — Alex Kapranos
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots. — Bill Hybels
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it. — Anais Nin
In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative. — Godfrey Reggio
So I was at the gas station the other day, and I saw that there was braille on the pumps. I don't see how they can cater to blind drivers. I mean, there are certain rights you should lose once you lose what makes you a person. — Zach Braff
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