Chartacter Quotes

Why need I volumes,

if one word suffice?

All I have seen teaches me to trust

the creator for all I have not seen.

My home may be in Heaven,

but my work is on Earth.

We’re surrounded.

That simplifies our problem of getting to

these people and killing them.

With the past,

I have nothing to do;

nor with the future.

I live now.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance,

but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

Be honest in your art;

authenticity always resonates.

Courage is not the absence of fear.

Courage is the ability to act effectively in spite of fear.

I don’t go by the rule book;

I lead from the heart.

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

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

We are very enthusiastic about what we do.

Frugality drives innovation,

just like other constraints do.

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.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue.

Music is freedom.

It allows me to express myself without limits.

God has given us two hands,

one to receive with and the other to give with.

Everything was so new

the whole idea of going into space was new and daring.

There were no textbooks,

so we had to write them.

It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals,

they seem so absurd and impractical.

Yet I cling to them.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Willing is not enough; we must do

Your most unhappy customers

are your greatest source of learning.