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

Today, Negroes play on every big league club

and in every minor league.

With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life,

we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in.

In baseball or out,

we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality

we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

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.

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.

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.

If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man,

but deteriorate the cat.

My books are like water;

those of the great geniuses are wine.

(Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

The most interesting information comes from children,

for they tell all they know and then stop.

Man was made at the end of the week's work,

when God was tired.

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.

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.

Let us not be too particular;

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