Martin Luther King Jr.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
Love is a verb.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The time is always right to do what is right.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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Face it girls, I'm older and I have more insurance.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all ?
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Badges ? We ain't got no badges ! We don't need no badges ! I don't have to show you any stinking badges !
Find the good -- and praise it.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
A healthy outside starts from the inside
Don't think it, ink it.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
We all go a little mad sometimes.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
What greater thing is there for two human souls that to feel that they are joined, to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
No pain, No gain.
Love is something eternal.
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Do it now !
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
You betcha !
Say hello to my little friend !
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
The book you don't read cant help.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker !
I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time.
I'm king of the world !
Live with passion !
There's no abiding success without commitment.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
You had me at hello.
True love never lives happily ever after. True love has no ending.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Spread love everywhere you go, first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness, kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what ?'
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A heart can be broken, but it keeps beating just the same.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole ! It's in the hole ! It's in the hole !
None are homely who smile.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
I don't like your manners.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
If you build it, he will come.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you ?
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle. The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Mama, face it. I was the slut of all time.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.