Every time I listen to Hamilton, my heart soars in a way that it rarely does. The music is inspiring and motivational--it makes you feel like you can do anything you set your mind to. Hamilton's story is one of facing adversity openly and aggressively, with a determination to achieve your goals no matter the cost. Each character faces their own struggles; there's someone for everyone to relate to! No matter who you are, Hamilton makes you want to create.
Today, I've decided to curate a master list of inspiring Hamilton quotes: print them out and place them in your place of work. Be your own community's Hamilton!
1. You could never back down; you never learned to take your time.
2. He looked at me like I was stupid--I'm not stupid!
3. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal; my power of speech: unimpeachable!
4. Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.
5. I am not throwing away my shot.
6. I'm past patiently waiting! I'm passionately smashing every expectation every action's an act of creation. I'm laughing in the face of casualties and sorrow--for the first time I'm thinking past tomorrow.
7. 'Cause I've been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine; some men say that I'm intense or insane; you want a revolution? I want a revelation, so listen to my declaration.
8. Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder.
9. I will never be satisfied.
10. Love doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints; it takes and it takes and it takes; and we keep loving anyway; we laugh and we cry and we break and we make our mistakes.
10. Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints; it takes and it takes; and we keep living anyway: we laugh and we cry and we break and we make our mistakes; and if there's a reason I'm still alive when everyone who loves me has died, I'm willing to wait for it.
11. I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable, I am an original. I'm not falling behind or running late. I'm not standing still I'm lying in wait.
12. Don't do a thing. History will prove him wrong.
13. My name's been through a lot; I can take it.
14. Look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.
15. Oh, let me be a part of the narrative of the story they will write someday.
16. History has its eyes on you.
17. You have no control: who lives, who dies, who tells your story.
18. Immigrants--we get the job done!
19. When you knock me down I get the f-ck back up again!
20. You'll blow us all away.
21. Man, the man is non-stop!
22. Why do you write like you're running out of time? Write day and night like you're running out of time? Everyday you fight like you're running out of time!
23. How do you write like tomorrow won't arrive? How do you write like you need it to survive? How do you write every second you're alive?
24. There is no more status quo; but the sun comes up and the world still spins.
25. You can write rhymes but you can't write mine!
26. When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game--but you don't get a win unless you play in the game. You get love for it, you get hate for it, you get nothing if you wait for it.
27. If you stand for nothing, what'll you fall for?
28. I've got to be in the room where it happens.
29. We'll teach them how to say goodbye, you and I.
30. I wrote my way out.
31. When my prayers to God were met with indifference, I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance.
32. You and your words flooded my senses; your sentences left me defenseless; you built me palaces out of paragraphs; you built cathedrals.
33. I'm not afraid; I know who I married; just let me stay here by your side--that would be enough.
34. I will not equivocate on my opinion; I have always worn it on my sleeve.
35. What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.
36. I ask myself, "What would you do if you had more time?"
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