Motivational Quotes

Everything that I love is behind those gates.

We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles,

and every kind of tigers and lions.

And

and we have bus loads of kids,

who don't get to see those things.

They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to

those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect,

it is when I contemplate the cause of my country,

deserted by all the world beside,

and I standing up boldly and lone

and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

I do not believe in the God of theology

who rewards good and punishes evil.

After two years at UCLA,

I decided to leave.

I was convinced that no amount of education

would help a black man get a job.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket

book not only suffers by it,

but your preparations are lost

and a season passes away unimproved.

The way I dress is an extension of my personality.

You can’t climb the ladder of success

with your hands in your pockets.

Power is nothing without the ability to act decisively.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason,

but of imagination.

I start early and I stay late,

day after day,

year after year.

To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist,

that is all.

The mind is a fertile garden;

what you cultivate grows.

Everything around you that you call life

was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts

and only asks to be loved.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous.

We know the court that made it has

often overruled its own decisions,

and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life.

Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

I speak to you only as an American

who happens to be an American Negro

and one who is proud of that heritage.

We ask for nothing special.

We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis,

and if we are not worthy,

then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Each age,

it is found,

must write its own books;

or rather,

each generation for the next succeeding.

I went to a fight the other night,

and a hockey game broke out.