Quotes on Inspirational

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

Dr. King used to say, 'I was sitting in the back of the bus, but my mind was always up front.' Don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it. You aim high and you work very hard and now I think it's clear that you can be anything you want to.

I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way._x000D_ _x000D_ We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing. _x000D_ _x000D_ Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn't so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.