Marti Quotes & Sayings

Seduction by one's own ego is a fearful thing. — Marti Garlett Watson

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. — Jose Marti

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. — Jose Marti

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. — Jose Marti

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. — Jose Marti

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. — Jose Marti

A good soul on earth hurts very much. — Jose Marti

I always wanted to play Roxie Hart in Chicago and also Sally Bowles in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, but I have a feeling I won't now! I've also always wanted to play Maria in The Sound of Music, but don't suppose I'll ever do that either! — Marti Webb

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being. — Jose Marti

Your truest spiritual path will lead you to yourself for it is devoted to becoming. — Mollie Marti

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand. — Jose Marti

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army. — Jose Marti

A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning. — Mollie Marti

Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow. — Mollie Marti

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential. — Mollie Marti

Behind a life of influence you will find a masterful storyteller. — Mollie Marti

High above the noise and fear mongering of critics and cynics softly speaks your true self. — Mollie Marti

Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for. — Jose Marti

Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ markedly from it. — Jose Marti

The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes. — Mollie Marti

Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty. — Jose Marti

We are free, but no to be evil — Jose Marti

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. — Jose Marti

The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that! — Marti Webb

Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light. — Jose Marti

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop — Jose Marti

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. — Jose Marti

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. — Jose Marti

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing. — Jose Marti

Charm is a product of the unexpected. — Jose Marti

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us. — Jose Marti

Integrity is a powerful force, keeping you alive to others long after you've left their presence. — Mollie Marti

Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate. — Jose Marti

One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again. — Jose Marti

Many introverts don't feel as if they know enough about a subject until they know almost everything. — Marti Olsen Laney

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains. — Jose Marti

Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear. — John Barnes

To Educate is to Free. — Jose Marti

Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni oruga cultivo Cultivo una rosa blanca. I have a white rose to tend In July as in January; I give it to the true friend Who offers his frank hand to me. And to the cruel one whose blows Break the heart by which I live, Thistle nor thorn do I give: For him, too, I have a white rose. — Jose Marti

Sane love, is not love — Jose Marti

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. — Jose Marti

I've lived in a flat in Westminster in London for over 20 years; and I also have a house in the country, down in Somerset, so I have the best of both worlds. — Marti Webb

The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least. — Jose Marti

Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work. — Jose Marti

Yet God does exist in the idea of good, which watches over the birth of every being and leaves in the soul embodied in that being one pure tear. Good is God, and the tear the source of eternal feeling. — Jose Marti

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever. — Jose Marti

Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth. — Mollie Marti

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. — Jose Marti

A selfish man is a thief. — Jose Marti

Absolutely, love exists in this universe. — Marti Noxon

To beautify life is to give it an object. — Jose Marti

Sphinx Resurrected by Christine Murphy gives a new romantic twist to the realm of the paranormal. The world building is extraordinary and pulls you in to the powerful domain of the Sphinx Warriors and won't let you go. — Marti Ziegler

The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world. — Marti Olsen Laney

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
— Jose Marti

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men. — Jose Marti

In truth, men speak too much of danger. — Jose Marti

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him. — Jose Marti

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well. — Jose Marti

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others. — Jose Marti

The second difference between the introvert and the extrovert is how they experience external stimulation. Extroverts like to experience a lot, and introverts like to know a lot about what they experience. — Marti Olsen Laney

The only way to be totally free is through education. — Jose Marti

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro. — Jose Marti

you must set her free. If you try to control her, she will hate you for it and you will lose her. — Marti Talbott

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve. — Marti Noxon

at just under fifteen miles over the speed limit. He knew from experience it was the safety zone, the — Marti Green

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. — Jose Marti

God is weeping. And how the people weep when they make God weep! — Jose Marti

Let others see their own greatness when looking in your eyes. — Mollie Marti

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. — Jose Marti

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. — Jose Marti

Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion. — Mollie Marti

Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others. — Mollie Marti

The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one. — Jose Marti

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. — Jose Marti

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. — Jose Marti

The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it — Marti Melville

Oh, what company good poets are! — Jose Marti

To change masters is not to be free. — Jose Marti

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine. — Jose Marti

Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life; it is what gives meaning to life. — Mollie Marti

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion. — Mollie Marti

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. — Jose Marti

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world. — Jose Marti

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. — Jose Marti

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. — Jose Marti

The truthe wakes up once and never dies. — Jose Marti

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly. — Jose Marti

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men. — Jose Marti

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. — Marti Melville

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity. — Jose Marti

People can only be free if they are truly educated. — Jose Marti

I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine. — Jose Marti

Guinea Pig never has the same name two weeks in a row. This — Marti Dumas

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason , and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light . — Jose Marti

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights. — Jose Marti

My poems please the brave : My poems, short and sincere , Have the force of steel Which forges swords . — Jose Marti

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water. — Jose Marti

When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.
(Marti Melville) — Marti Melville

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself. — Jose Marti

Midnight Omen Deja vu - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean ... at least once in a lifetime. — Marti Melville