Image of Ella Baker
In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.
- Ella Baker
Collection: Order
Image of Sheryl Swoopes
I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.
- Sheryl Swoopes
Image of James Cash Penney
Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
- James Cash Penney
Collection: Chance
Image of Dallas Willard
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
- Dallas Willard
Collection: Jesus
Image of Woody Guthrie
Take it easy, but take it.
- Woody Guthrie
Collection: Philosophy
Image of Edith Stein
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.
- Edith Stein
Collection: Religious
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Love
Image of Thomas Sowell
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Science
Image of Henry Rollins
I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.
- Henry Rollins
Collection: Heart
Image of Nelson Mandela
Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Wise
Image of Michelangelo
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.
- Michelangelo
Collection: Block
Image of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Image of Henry Rollins
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
- Henry Rollins
Image of Thomas Jefferson
The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.
- Thomas Jefferson
Collection: Rights
Image of Philip Johnson
We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.
- Philip Johnson
Collection: Positive
Image of Paulo Coelho
If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
- Paulo Coelho
Collection: Know Yourself
Image of Swami Vivekananda
Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.
- Swami Vivekananda
Collection: Strength
Image of Edgar Allan Poe
Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.
- Edgar Allan Poe
Collection: Men
Image of Timothy Keller
The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.
- Timothy Keller
Collection: Love
Image of John Eldredge
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.
- John Eldredge
Collection: Life
Image of Tony Robbins
Realize that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment.
- Tony Robbins
Collection: Basketball
Image of Beth Moore
A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went.
- Beth Moore
Collection: Healing
Image of Chief Seattle
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle
Collection: Life
Image of Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothingness haunts Being.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Collection: Existentialism
Image of Chris Oyakhilome
Until you prevail with God, you cannot prevail with men; your victory has to be spiritual first, before it is physical.
- Chris Oyakhilome
Collection: Spiritual
Image of Malcolm X
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Crush
Image of Helen Keller
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller
Collection: Nature
Image of Ed Sheeran
Be a true Heart, not a follower.
- Ed Sheeran
Collection: Heart
Image of Billy Graham
Learn to keep close to Jesus, to listen to His voice, and follow Him.
- Billy Graham
Collection: Jesus
Image of Zhuangzi
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
- Zhuangzi
Collection: Deeds And Words
Image of Rene Descartes
In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.
- Rene Descartes
Collection: Way
Image of Nhat Hanh
Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.
- Nhat Hanh
Collection: Light
Image of Joyce Meyer
I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
- Joyce Meyer
Collection: God
Image of John C. Maxwell
Dreams don’t work unless you do.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Dream
Image of John Bunyan
To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
- John Bunyan
Collection: Running
Image of Rick Riordan
She would always be my biggest what if.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: What If
Image of Millicent Fawcett
Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.
- Millicent Fawcett
Collection: Courage
Image of Jared Spool
Good design, when done well, should be invisible.
- Jared Spool
Collection: Design
Image of Mark Cuban
Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.
- Mark Cuban
Collection: Motivational
Image of James Dean
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
- James Dean
Collection: Looking Good
Image of Tony Robbins
If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.
- Tony Robbins
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Jeremy Gutsche
Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.
- Jeremy Gutsche
Collection: Complacency
Image of Winston Churchill
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
- Winston Churchill
Collection: Life
Image of Jim Valvano
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
- Jim Valvano
Image of Bela Karolyi
No competition, no progress.
- Bela Karolyi
Collection: Competition
Image of Oscar Wilde
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Natural
Image of Noam Chomsky
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Education
Image of Garry Kasparov
Chess is mental torture.
- Garry Kasparov
Image of Richard Rohr
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
- Richard Rohr
Collection: Gratitude