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

I cannot possibly believe that

I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry,

inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed,

denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

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.

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP.

It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to

Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind

the doctrine of racial division,

the doctrine of racial prejudice,

the doctrine of white supremacy.

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.

In all my years of baseball,

I have always expected to be traded.

I never liked the idea.

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.

Baseball is like a poker game.

Nobody wants to quit when he's losing;

nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

The most luxurious possession,

the richest treasure anybody has,

is his personal dignity.

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.

How lucky Adam was.

He knew when he said a good thing,

nobody had said it before.

Good breeding consists in concealing

how much we think of ourselves and

how little we think of the other person.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities.

Truth isn't.

The most interesting information comes from children,

for they tell all they know and then stop.

George Washington, as a boy,

was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth.

He could not even lie.

We are all alike,

on the inside.

Let us not be too particular;

it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Man will do many things to get himself loved,

he will do all things to get himself envied.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.