Shayri Quotes

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy.

It will either keep you or destroy you.

There are people who can do all fine

and heroic things but one keep from telling their

happiness to the unhappy.

Faith and reason are like two wings on

which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.

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.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by

every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap

let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges;

let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs;

let it be preached from the pulpit,

proclaimed in legislative halls,

and enforced in courts of justice.

Foreknowledge is a tool;

wisdom is knowing how to use it.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us

to be what we know we could be.

Being authentic is more important than being popular.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual,

understanding of who you are,

not necessarily a religious feeling,

but deep down, the spirit within,

that you can begin to take control.

It means,

people who are in high and responsible positions,

if they go against righteousness,

righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

I like to learn.

That's an art and a science.

You’re only as good as your last performance.

The only thing in life that counts is being happy and honest.

Life is brief, and then you die,

you know?

My uncle's dying wish

he wanted me on his lap.

He was in the electric chair.

Cash combined with courage in a crisis is priceless.

It is hard to fail,

but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Small countries must think smart and act fast.