Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
HAILE SELASSIEPeace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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Feel the needs of others more than your own.
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A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility.
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Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
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Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless.
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A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.
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Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?
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There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.
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As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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A good leader maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
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Leadership does not mean domination.
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We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
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The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.
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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
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