Inspirational Quotes - Page 392

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

Life Will Never Be The Same Because There Had Never Been Anyone Like You...Ever in the World.

The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

...we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

Fatherhood means a great deal to me. I love it. To me, there aint nothing better, because your kids keep it real with you. When you think things are bad, you look at them and they show you how things could be all right, and it's all worth it.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

We must become the change we want to see.

If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.