Explore Quotes on Inspiring

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.