10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

To keep our faces toward change and behave like

free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self

gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than

walking alone in the light.

What I am looking for is not out there,

it is in me.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Only through experience of trial and suffering can

the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,

and success achieved.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

I talked and talked of everything

I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and

what he has done to one life multiplied

millions of times over these United States and the world.

He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this.

It was just a day like any other day.

The only thing that made it significant was that

the masses of the people joined in.

I had felt for a long time that,

if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,

that I would refuse to do so.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit,

and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

As far back as I can remember,

I knew there was something wrong with our way of life

when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...

so other people would be also free.

People always say that I didn't give up my seat because

I was tired, but that isn't true.

I was not tired physically...

No,

the only tired I was,

was tired of giving in.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

My father carries around the picture of the kid

who came with his wallet.

I told my wife the truth.

I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist.

Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist,

two plumbers, and a bartender.

On Halloween,

the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

I could tell my parents hated me.

My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone,

and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.