black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

Jimmy Carter

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must.
JIMMY CARTER

Change Choice Suffering Togetherness Work
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
JIMMY CARTER

Consumption Ourselves Worship
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
JIMMY CARTER

Ability Better Inspirational Motivational Thinking Time Yourself
The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
JIMMY CARTER

Abuse Earth Human Violation Woman
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER

Country Human Invention Reality Right
I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.
JIMMY CARTER

Argument Myself Thinking Time Wife Win
Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
JIMMY CARTER

Life People Short Wrong
Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
JIMMY CARTER

Democracy Ourselves Trust
Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
JIMMY CARTER

Father Life Memories Myself President Public
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
JIMMY CARTER

Achievement Fear Human Mad Yourself
One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
JIMMY CARTER

Country Demand Discussion Inheritance Problem Serious
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
JIMMY CARTER

Believe Country History Ourselves People Time Worst
We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
JIMMY CARTER

Different Ourselves People Sin
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
JIMMY CARTER

Life Moments Wonder
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.
JIMMY CARTER

Difference Nation Source Strength
And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.
JIMMY CARTER

Country Myself Strength Wisdom World

We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We’ve got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jimmy Carter Quotes