Ben Nighthorse Campbell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is but one secret to success: never give up.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#Giving Up #Secret #Giving
Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#Notebook #African American #Pages
You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#Crafts #Stones
I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#Believe #Defense #Minorities
The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#Office #President #Defense
A lot of senators are so worried about convention and how they look that they wouldn't let their hair down if they had any.
-- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

#Hair #Looks #Worried

Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.
The Foreign Office knows no secrets.
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is MadhusÃ¼dana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell famous quotes

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