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

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.

The best and most beautiful things in the world

cannot be seen or even touched

they must be felt with the heart.

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.

It was not pre arranged.

It just happened that the driver made a demand

and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand.

I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

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.

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.

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.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous

than myself to establish effectual barriers

against the horrors of spiritual tyranny,

and every species of religious persecution.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service,

than the neglect of discipline;

for that discipline,

more than numbers,

gives one army,

the superiority over another.