Inspirational Quotes

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now.

True or true? Yes or yes?

Life's not just about being alive, but being well.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

Seeing is not always believing.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

History is change happening one person at a time.

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.

Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

You can never be great at anything unless you love it.

I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

Silence is often advantageous.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

If you are not thinking for yourself, someone else is thinking for you. Choose for yourself and become free from society's undertow. The Universe is ready to support you.

Trust, practice, and then release yourself into the goodness of Existence and your life will prove that what you believe, you see.

A person all wrapped up in themselves makes for a mighty small package.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

Be who you are in every situation.

On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

It's not going to happen if you wait for the boss to tell you to make it happen.