Shayri Quotes

If women want any rights more than they’ve got,

why don’t they take them?

Try not to become

A man of success.

Rather become

A man of value.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

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.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

It has always been easy to hate and destroy.

To build and to cherish is much more difficult.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

You can't depend on your eyes

when your imagination is out of focus.

Almost everything will work again

if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

That all men are equal is a proposition which,

at ordinary times,

no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Buy less,

choose well,

make it last.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

The mind is everything.

What we think we become.

I strongly believe that missionaries

make better products.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

Grief changes shape,

but it never ends.

Being yourself is the most important thing you can do.

A man's friendships

are one of the best

measures of his worth.

Put the work in,

and the rest will follow.