“Self dedication is a spiritual experience.”

Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

I’ve always maintained that it isn’t the form that’s going to make the difference. It isn’t the rule or the procedure or the ideology, but it’s human beings that will make it.

If you give yourself totally to the nonviolence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone.

It’s amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

There’s no turning back. We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.

There are many reasons for why a man does what he does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of.

Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.

It’s dedicating yourself to your craft. Spending thousands of hours in a studio learning how to write a song, learning how to play different chords, training yourself to sing. You know, to get better and better.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

I believe that we learn by practice… it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which come shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures – I take that into life.

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can’t jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.