Inspirational Quotes

In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.

(American swimmer, 1972 Summer Olympics, on winning seven gold medals Inspirational) I swam my brains out.

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

What's exciting about using our mind is that we can short circuit all the excuses thrown up by our fears.

There's no doubt about it... I was born a feminist.

I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.

To be really productive, it's as important to rest when we're tired as it is to work when we're inspired.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

Violence is not the way.

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

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing, let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong... it's Independence Day.

Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.

You know you are old when you've lost your marvels.

I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.

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I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.

And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

Let's face it, all the good stuff happens after midnight.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.