Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily
HAILE SELASSIEThe fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
More Haile Selassie Quotes
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Place principle above all else.
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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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A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.
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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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I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.
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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 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 have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?
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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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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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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
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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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You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.
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A good leader maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
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Everyone, in all walks of life, regardless of his professional occupation should feel concerned and play an active role to solve such problems which affect mankind.
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The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding.
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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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As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.
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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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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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Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.
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One cannot deny that in former times man’s life had been one of toil and hardship. It is correct to say, therefore, that modern civilization and the progress of science have greatly improved man’s life and have brought comfort and ease in their trail.
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There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.
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We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.
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We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.
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We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
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