10000+ Motivational and Inspiring Quotes About Life, Love & Success

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,

through which God speaks to us every hour,

if we will only tune in.

Ninety nine percent of the failures

come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Where there is no vision,

there is no hope.

During my life,

I have had a few nightmares which happened to me

while I was wide awake.

One of them was

the National Republican Convention in San Francisco,

which produced the greatest disaster

the Republican Party has ever known

Nominee Barry Goldwater.

The colonel replied that he didn't care

how my men had got the job done.

He was happy that it had been accomplished.

He said that, obviously,

no matter how much or how little I knew technically,

I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

The way I figured it,

I was even with baseball and baseball with me.

The game had done much for me,

and I had done much for it.

I want everybody to understand that

I am an American Negro first before

I am a member of any political party.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley.

He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand,

good can come out of it.

I think if we go back and check our record,

the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than

patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

After two years at UCLA,

I decided to leave.

I was convinced that no amount of education

would help a black man get a job.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

The right of every American to first

class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

This ain't fun.

But you watch me,

I'll get it done.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

Life is not a spectator sport.

If you're going to spend

your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on,

in my opinion you're wasting your life.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Water, taken in moderation,

cannot hurt anybody.

We Americans...

bear the ark of liberties of the world.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

How lucky Adam was.

He knew when he said a good thing,

nobody had said it before.