Alphabet Quotes

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die At any time.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do.

The hard part is doing it.

The charm of fishing is that

it is the pursuit of what is

elusive but attainable

a perpetual series of

occasions for hope.

I don't have a feeling of inferiority.

Never had.

I'm as good as anybody,

but no better.

Instinct is a marvelous thing.

It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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.

People will come to love their oppression,

to adore the technologies

that undo their capacities to think.

You can get help from teachers,

but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself,

sitting alone in a room.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason,

but of imagination.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,

and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do

what you believe is great work.

I want winners.

The universe is not made to suit man;

we must understand its laws.

Courage is resistance to fear,

mastery of fear,

not absence of fear.

I can only say that there is not a man

living who wishes more sincerely than I do,

to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it

but there is only one proper and effectual mode by

which it can be accomplished,

and that is by Legislative authority: and this,

as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

The successful warrior is the average man,

with laser like focus.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Once we accept our limits,

we go beyond them.

A lot of Thanksgiving days

have been ruined by not

carving the turkey

in the kitchen.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.