Hidni Quotes

I met the surgeon general

he offered me a cigarette.

Experience is not what happens to you;

it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Ask not what your country can do for you

ask what you can do for your country.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die

Sometimes you have to be a little crazy to get what you want.

You can never cross the ocean

unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

It has been my experience that folks

who have no vices have very few virtues.

No act of kindness,

no matter how small,

is ever wasted.

Your uniqueness is your superpower.

Political courage means standing up for your beliefs,

no matter the opposition.

Every match is a chance to improve

and inspire the next generation.

For me,

there are two types of people:

the young and the experienced.

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

It's when children are 15,

16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor,

an engineer,

a politician or go to the Mars or moon.

That is the time they start having a dream,

and that's the time you can work on them.

You can help them shape their dreams.

Integrity is telling myself the truth,

and honesty is telling the truth to other people.

I have talked with great men,

and I do not see how they differ from others.

If you keep your eye on the profit,

you’re going to skimp on the product.

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.

Love is the attempt to

form a friendship

inspired by beauty.

I don't believe in failure.

It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.