Quotes on Inspirational

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

The difference between those who fail to achieve their goals in life and those who succeed is the difference between those who cannot put themselves in a supportive state and those who can consistently put themselves in a state that supports them in their achievements.

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.