Place principle above all else.
HAILE SELASSIEEvery labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.
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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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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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There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
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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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Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.
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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.
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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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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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An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.
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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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