Motivational Quotes

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.

Above anything else,

I hate to lose.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

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.

There's not an American in this country

free until every one of us is free.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me...

All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

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

Water, taken in moderation,

cannot hurt anybody.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction?

Fiction,

after all,

has to make sense.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

We Americans...

bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Ideally a book would have no order to it,

and the reader would have to discover his own.

Repartee is something we think of twenty

four hours too late.

All right,

then,

I'll go to hell.

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.

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.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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.