Margaret Mead Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Margaret Mead
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
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For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
Instead Sayings
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,
instead of what you don't have.
- Woody Allen
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts,
cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
- Ernest Holmes
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Instead of noblemen,
let us have noble villages of men.
- Henry David Thoreau
Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else's.
- Billy Wilder
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
First Sayings
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Let every day be the first day
of the rest of your life,
but especially let today be a new beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first
and the lessons afterwards.
- Anonymous
Today, I Do What Is Important To Me, First.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, here's your first lesson: how to take a FALL!
- the movie Karate Kid
Life is uncertain; always eat dessert first.
- Anonymous
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
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