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

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves

by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam

the door on potential opportunities.

We go through life walking a tightrope

to prevent too much disillusionment.

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.

Ideally a book would have no order to it,

and the reader would have to discover his own.

Humor must not professedly teach

and it must not professedly preach,

but it must do both if it would live forever.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store.

Its contents remain the same,

but the medical practice changes.

It was wonderful to find America,

but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away.

He must have time to modify his shape.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man.

The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Words are only painted fire;

a look is the fire itself.

There are several good protections against temptation,

but the surest is cowardice.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much;

if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

A man is never more truthful than

when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very';

your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell

you see, I have friends in both places.

There are lies,

damned lies and statistics.

When in doubt tell the truth.

I do not believe in the God of theology

who rewards good and punishes evil.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.