Quotes to feed your Soul.....

"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it's the pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through. ~ Harriet Tubman

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. ~ Maya Angelou

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. ~ Muhammad Ali

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. ~ Booker T. Washington

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. ~ Frederick Douglass

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ~ Frederick Douglass

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." -Booker T. Washington

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." Martin Luther King, Jr

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential. ~Anna Gould

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. ~Colin Powell

Stumbling is not falling. ~ Malcolm X


There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. ~ Malcolm X

If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~ Huey Newton

Failure is impossible. ~ Susan B. Anthony

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. ~ Susan B. Anthony

Independence is happiness. ~ Susan B. Anthony

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. ~ Susan B. Anthony

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. ~Gloria Steinem

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it. ~ Saul Alinsky

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ~ Gloria Steinem

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~ Noam Chomsky

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~ Langston Hughes

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ~ Langston Hughes

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.~
Langston Hughes

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.~
T. S. Eliot

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.~
Horace Mann

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. ~ Horace Mann

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. ~ Horace Mann

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. ~ John W. Gardner

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
John W. Gardner

"People don't change when we tell them they should. They change when they tell themselves they must."--- Michael Mandelbaum