Top 70 Cory Booker Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Cory Booker

2. “If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.”

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

5. “If you want the things people don’t have, you have to do the things other people will not do.”

— Cory Booker

6. “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.”

— Cory Booker

7. “Don’t let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.”

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

11. “Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.’”

— Cory Booker

12. “When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.”

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

15. “First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.”

— Cory Booker

16. “If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.”

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

19. “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.”

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

21. “There are two ways to go through life, as a thermometer or a thermostat. Don’t be a thermometer, just reflecting what’s around you, going up or down with your surroundings. Be a thermostat and set the temperature.”

— Cory Booker

22. “We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.”

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

25. “I spoke of our need for each other, how we are each other’s hope, how when we come together we are strong. How we know that if there is no enemy within, the enemy without can do us no harm. And the enemy within is indifference. It is apathy. It is convictions without courage and ideals without action. It is division. For we know that where there is unity, there is strength.”

— Cory Booker

26. “Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.”

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

28. “In the end, it is up to us to instruct, inspire, and encourage one another by what we do and how we live. We must all, in this sense, be activists. If we want more connection, we must work harder to connect with others. If we want more unity, we must work to be uniters. If we want more leadership, then we must lead. The most profound changes in our country have come when individuals joined with other individuals in the stubborn belief that they could make change.”

— Cory Booker

29. “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.”

— Cory Booker

30. “In life, it is never the big battle, the big moment, the big speech, the big election. That does not change things. What changes things is every day, getting up and rendering small acts of service and love beyond that what’s expected of you or required of you.”

— Cory Booker

31. “Hope is the active conviction that despair will never have the last word.”

— Cory Booker

32. “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!”

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

34. “You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.”

— Cory Booker

35. “Hope confronts. It does not ignore pain, agony, or injustice. It is not a saccharine optimism that refuses to see, face, or grapple with the wretchedness of reality. You can’t have hope without despair, because hope is a response. Hope is the active conviction that despair will never have the last word.”

— Cory Booker

36. “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; before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.”

— Cory Booker

37. “You can’t have hope without despair, because hope is a response. Hope is the active conviction that despair will never have the last word.”

— Cory Booker

38. “As you put your sights on your goals – no matter how great and compelling they are – as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.”

— Cory Booker

39. “Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.”

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

41. “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.”

— Cory Booker

42. “Many people don’t realize that police can’t stop anyone they want just because of a generalized suspicion. There are clear legal standards. Officers may briefly detain a person for investigative purposes only if the officer has “reasonable suspicion” that criminal activity is occurring. Reasonable suspicion is a step below the “probable cause” necessary for an arrest. “Reasonable suspicion” requires more than being in a high-crime area or acting furtive in front of police.”

— Cory Booker

43. “Ask yourself what would you do if you could not fail. If you knew for sure you would be successful, what would you do? Who would you be, how would you behave, how would you feel, how would you serve? Answer that question. Feel that. Act like that. And even if you do fail, I promise you that you will be better for it – wiser, stronger, and more capable.”

— Cory Booker

44. “We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new ‘Declaration of Inter-dependence.’ A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.”

— Cory Booker

45. “If we cannot provide excellent educational opportunities to all children, safe communities, quality health coverage, or robust and fair avenues towards wealth creation, then our nation will increasingly be in peril.”

— Cory Booker

46. “What we need now, more than anything else, are people who are willing to do the difficult work of bridging gaps and healing wounds, people in our communities who can rally others together, across lines of division, for the greater good, people who reject cynicism and winner-take-all politics, and instead embrace the more difficult work this generation now faces: to unite our country in common cause.”

— Cory Booker

47. “My father taught me early in my life that attitude is a conscious choice; it is a currency available even to those with no access to money. No matter what the circumstances, you exercise your power, you demonstrate your worth, when you decide how to act and react in the face of it all. If the world punches you in the gut, that doesn’t define you; it’s what you do next that speaks your truth.”

— Cory Booker

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

— Cory Booker

49. “Tolerance is becoming accustomed to injustice; love is becoming disturbed and activated by another’s adverse condition. Tolerance crosses the street; love confronts. Tolerance builds fences; love opens doors. Tolerance breeds indifference; love demands engagement. Tolerance couldn’t care less; love always cares more. –.”

— Cory Booker

50. “Profound connections exist between all; interdependency so manifest that perceived separation is a delusion. Like a great pool containing millions of drops of water, introduce a stone and all are elevated, poison a part and all are ill affected. You can’t connect more or less; the connection exists no matter what our perception. But ignore the connection, deny it, and consequences come.”

— Cory Booker