Rosa Luxemburg

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

No man was ever great by imitation.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ready are you? What know you of ready?

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.