I don't measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
I Have a Dream
When God commands, do it!
We shall overcome.
Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
The “with God” life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a life of inner peace and contentment for your soul with the maker and manager of the universe. The “without God” life is the opposite. It is death. It will kill your soul.
A soul without a center feels constantly vulnerable to people or circumstances.
A soul without a center has difficulty making a decision. One of the pictures James uses of this condition is that the double-souled person is like a wave on the sea, driven forward one moment and backward the next. People whose souls are rooted in a center find it brings clarity to their decisions.
Being right is actually a very hard burden to be able to carry gracefully and humbly. That’s why nobody likes to sit next to the kid in class who’s right all the time. One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.