Jose Marti Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.”

“Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.”

“It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.”

“Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.”

“It is the duty of man to raise up man.”

“To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.”

“The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.”

“In truth, men speak too much of danger.”

“Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.”

“Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.”