Motivational Quotes

Our creator is the same and never changes despite

the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world.

Even if we gave Him no name at all,

He would still be there, within us,

waiting to give us good on this earth.

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind,

we must therefore stimulate and encourage

that type of mind in every way possible.

I wanted to know the name of every stone

and flower and insect and bird and beast,

I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life

but there was no one to tell me.

Years ago I went into my laboratory and said,

'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?'

The Great Creator answered,

'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours.

Ask for something more your size, little man.'

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower,

or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,

but I have found that when I silently commune with people,

they give up their secrets also,

if you love them enough.

It is not the style of clothes one wears,

neither the kind of automobile one drives,

nor the amount of money one has in the bank,

that counts.

These mean nothing.

It is simply service that measures success.

There is no short cut to achievement.

Life requires thorough preparation

veneer isn't worth anything.

No individual has any right to come into the world

and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct

and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

If you love it enough,

anything will talk with you.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,

you will command the attention of the world.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness

of the woods before sunrise.

Where there is no vision,

there is no hope.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

During my life,

I have had a few nightmares which happened to me

while I was wide awake.

One of them was

the National Republican Convention in San Francisco,

which produced the greatest disaster

the Republican Party has ever known

Nominee Barry Goldwater.

The colonel replied that he didn't care

how my men had got the job done.

He was happy that it had been accomplished.

He said that, obviously,

no matter how much or how little I knew technically,

I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I cannot possibly believe that

I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry,

inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed,

denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home.

I thought my family was secure,

so I went running around everyplace else.

I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids

than I did my own.

The way I figured it,

I was even with baseball and baseball with me.

The game had done much for me,

and I had done much for it.

Pop flies, in a sense,

are just a diversion for a second baseman.

Grounders are his stock trade.

I had practiced with the team,

and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri.

They made it quite clear to the Army that

they would not play a team with a black player on it.

Instead of telling me the truth,

the Army gave me leave to go home.