Marcus Garvey Quotes

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change themselves

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

God always wants us to be growing.

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.