Inspiring Quotes
INSPIRING QUOTES
“A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself.”
– Maya Angelou
“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
– Lena Horne
“Poetry is life distilled.”
– Gwendoyln Brooks
“We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That’s just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.”
– Mae Jemison
“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The only thing better than singing is more singing.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”
– Gertrude Stein
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
– Rosa Parks
“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”
– Maya Angelou
“The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.”
– Leotyne Price
“Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.”
– Barbara Jordan
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
– Nelson Mandela
“It is the mind that makes the body.”
– Sojourner Truth
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou
“Truth is powerful and it prevails.”
– Sojourner Truth
“What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.”
– Condoleezza Rice
“We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.”
– Alice Walker