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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Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.
You must motivate yourself every day.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Without a general an army is lost.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
You're good, you're very good.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The hottest love has the coldest end.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Love conquers all.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
There's no crying in baseball !
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
They're here !
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 listener does not hear. quotes
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Love is smiling on the inside and out.
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.
The list is an absolute good. The list is life.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Fill your hands, you son-of-a-bitch !
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun, a swiss watch and a woman from anywhere.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Success is a journey not a destination.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
I am your father.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give pulse for pulse, breath for breath. Speak low, lean low, as long ago, my love, how long ago.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked. Well, I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this lost cause. Even if this room gets filled with lies like these, and the taylors and all their armies come marching into this place.