Inspirational Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony
1820 - 1906
American Women's Activist

Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches per year on women's rights for 45 years.



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Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
Susan B. Anthony

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B. Anthony

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.
Susan B. Anthony

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.
Susan B. Anthony

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
Susan B. Anthony

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Susan B. Anthony

Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Susan B. Anthony

Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
Susan B. Anthony

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.
Susan B. Anthony

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony

Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.
Susan B. Anthony

Inspiration Quotes By Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou
Born April 4, 1928
US author, poet

Maya Angelou, (born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. She has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer". Angelou is known for her series of six autobiographies, starting with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, (1969) which was nominated for a National Book Award. Her volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die (1971) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993. She has been highly honored for her body of work, including being awarded over 30 honorary degrees.



Honors and awards
Angelou has been honored by universities, literary organizations, government agencies, and special interest groups. Her honors include a National Book Award nomination for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her book of poetry, Just Give Me A Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die, a Tony Award nomination for her role in the 1973 play Look Away, and three Grammys for her spoken word albums. In 1995, Angelou's publishing company, Bantam Books, recognized her for having the longest-running record (two years) on The New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Bestseller List. She has served on two presidential committees, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Lincoln Medal in 2008. Musician Ben Harper has honored Angelou with his song "I'll Rise," which includes words from her poem, "And Still I Rise." She has been awarded over thirty honorary degrees.

Be inspired by these famous inspirational quotes by Maya Angelou. May her words remind you that you have the power to change your situation!

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou

Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.
Maya Angelou

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Maya Angelou

Alone, all alone nobody, but nobody
can make it out here alone.

Maya Angelou
I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Maya Angelou

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
Maya Angelou

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou

See, you don’t have to think about doing the right thing if you are for the right thing then you’ll do it without thinking.
Maya Angelou

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
Maya Angelou

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou

All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou

I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life".
Maya Angelou

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.
Maya Angelou

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
Maya Angelou

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.
Maya Angelou

I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
Maya Angelou

Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
Maya Angelou

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

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

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.
Maya Angelou

I can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
Maya Angelou

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

Inspiration Quotes by Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali
Born January 17, 1942
A Famous American Boxer

About Muhammad Ali:
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and former three-time
World Heavyweight Champion. To date, he remains the only man to have won the linear heavyweight championship three times (the linear title is recognized by tracing an - almost - unbroken lineage of titleholders going back over 100 years, with nearly every champion defeating the previous titleholder in the ring). Ali was also the winner of an Olympic Light-heavyweight gold medal. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and the BBC.

Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who was named for the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Clay. Ali changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, subsequently converted to Sunni Islam in 1975 and then Sufism.
Ali was known for his fighting style, which he described as "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee". Throughout his career Ali made a name for himself with great handspeed, as well as swift feet and taunting tactics. While Ali was renowned for his fast, sharp out-fighting style, he also had a great chin, and displayed great courage and an ability to take a punch throughout his career.



Enjoy these famous inspirational quotes by Muhammad Ali. We hope you find them inspirational and motivating and they remind you that you can do whatever you put your mind to.

Hating people because of their color is wrong.
And it doesn't matter which color does the hating.
It's just plain wrong.
Muhammad Ali

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach
down to the bottom of his soul and
come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them.
This is the only way that you will be truly rich.”
Muhammad Ali

I hated every minute of training, but I said,
''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
Muhammad Ali

He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali

What keeps me going is goals.
Muhammad Ali

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Mahummad Ali

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.
And once that belief becomes a deep conviction,
things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad Ali

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Mahummad Ali

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali

Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Mahummad Ali

Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.
Muhammad Ali

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

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Mahummad Ali

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
Muhammad Ali

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad Ali