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.

If you love it enough,

anything will talk with you.

Ninety nine percent of the failures

come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results.

More seats were allocated for blacks,

but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites.

At least I had made my men realize

that something could be accomplished by speaking out,

and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

When I am playing baseball,

I give it all that I have on the ball field.

When the ball game is over,

I certainly don't take it home.

My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know

the difference between a third strike and a foul ball.

We don't talk about baseball at home.

If I had been white with the things I did,

they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

I speak to you only as an American

who happens to be an American Negro

and one who is proud of that heritage.

We ask for nothing special.

We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis,

and if we are not worthy,

then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless

if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

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

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction?

Fiction,

after all,

has to make sense.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Repartee is something we think of twenty

four hours too late.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words!

His real life is led in his head,

and is known to none but himself.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other,

so we can have some conversation.

She was not quite what you would call refined.

She was not quite what you would call unrefined.

She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call

an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

My books are like water;

those of the great geniuses are wine.

(Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us

dreamers and indolent...

It is good to begin life poor;

it is good to begin life rich

these are wholesome;

but to begin it prospectively rich!

The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.