Quote: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: I know. I?ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything?Sophisticated ? God, I?m sophisticated. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Forgotten is forgiven. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Her voice is full of money. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: I know myself, but that is all. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Growth is a painful process. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: We've had daunting problems in many critical areas, but I believe in the old Cherokee injunction to "be of a good mind." Today it's called positive thinking. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and believe in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: She likened her job to "running a small country, a medium corporation, and being a social worker. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself . . . and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: The secret of our success is that we never, never give up. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was someone who watched over the village, who had the title of mankiller. And I'm not sure what you could equate that to, but it was sort of like a soldier or someone who was responsible for the security of the village, and so anyway this one fellow liked the title mankiller so well that he kept it as his name, and that's who we trace our ancestry back to. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: But what I learned from my experience in living in a community of almost all African-American people, and what I learned from my experience in living in my own community in Oklahoma before the relocation is that poor people have a much, much greater capacity for solving their own problems than most people give them credit for. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]
Quote: A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be a chief. There's been a change in the limits people see. [Frances Scott Fitzgerald]