Harvey Milk

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities … the expression of love … then life itself loses its meaning.

It takes no compromise to give people their rights … it takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give them freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

All men are created equal. No matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than any other single reason. That, that my friends, that is true perversion!

I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition … is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration … surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Focus on what you can control: your actions. How you react to negative feelings will be the key to your success.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

If you want to be rich… don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

Don’t get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.

Happiness is the ability to move forward knowing the future will be better than the past.

Everyone deserves an equal chance at success.