Shayri Quotes

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Every race is a chance to improve.

Dreams aren’t just for sleeping.

If you give people tools,

and they use their natural abilities and curiosity,

they will develop things…

Too weird to live,

too rare to die.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

No books ever go into my laboratory.

The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me

the moment I am inspired to create something new.

Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless.

Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Fear defeats more people than

any other one thing in the world.

I don't care what people think of me.

Stay focused,

stay calm,

and trust your instincts.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

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.

If you want to shine like a sun,

first burn like a sun.

I don't know who I am,

but I know who I'm not.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as

spending our lives running from it.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,

but let him work diligently and build one for himself,

thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe

from violence when built.

Vulnerability is strength,

not weakness.

I don’t know where I’m going from here,

but I promise it won’t be boring.