Cory Booker Quotes

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

The world you see outside of you will always be a reflection of what you have inside of you.

Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.

Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.

When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

No matter what, we always have the power to choose hope over despair, engagement over apathy, kindness over indifference, love over hate.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.

Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.

May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.

You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.

Before you tell me what you teach and preach, show me how you live and give.

Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!

When American citizens pull together, there is little we can't accomplish.

If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.

Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.

Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield

If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.

I have my rights, not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, "Hey, let's give certain Americans equal rights." But because of the ardent, unyielding voice of protesters.

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

I'm a competitor. And I don't want to say, hey, just because this person is a woman or this person is a minority, that they're not going to get the white male vote.

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

I still have that new senator smell.

We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It's costing every commuter.

My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.

The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are building an undeniable thesis that our city is making incredible strides forward.

When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

I know Donald Trump. I've met him I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I'm going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president.

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

I have got the job of my dreams.

In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.