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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;

but often we look so long at the closed door

that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Self

pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it,

we can never do anything wise in this world.

The only thing worse than being blind is

having sight but no vision.

Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature,

nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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.

Alone we can do so little;

together we can do so much.

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.

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute accepts people of any race.

We don't discriminate against anyone.

We teach people to reach their highest potential.

I set examples by the way I lead my life.

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 was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913.

I was allowed to read.

My mother, who was a teacher,

taught me when I was a very young child.

The first school I attended was a small building

that went from first to sixth grade.

There was one teacher for all of the students.

There could be anywhere from 50 to 60 students of all different ages.

My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation,

actually making life clever,

easy and convenient for white people.

But when you have to get transportation home,

you are denied an equal accommodation.

Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well being;

we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.

We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference,

accepting the false pattern set up by

the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

Racism is still with us.

But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet,

and,

hopefully,

we shall overcome.

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.