Friend Quotes

Haters will broadcast your failures,

but whisper your success.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Curiosity is one of the permanent

and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly

find out how far one can go.

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers

and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters,

and even a few politicians were banging away

at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball.

I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

I believe everything happens for a reason.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers

you cannot be successful or happy

Norman Vincent Peale

Vision is not enough;

you must act upon it.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us

In skating over thin ice

our safety is in our speed.

I have been refused entrance on the buses because

I would not pay my fare at the front

and go around to the rear door to enter.

That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point

where the white passengers would start occupying.

Christmas waves a magic

wand over this world,

and behold, everything is

softer and more beautiful.

Will this person raise the average level of effectiveness

of the group they’re entering?

The foolish and wicked practice of profane

cursing and swearing is a vice so mean

and low that every person of sense

and character detests and despises it.

The good thing about science is that it’s true

whether or not you believe in it.

The world breaks everyone,

and afterward,

some are strong at the broken places.

I could tell my parents hated me.

My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

The greatness of America lies

not in being more enlightened than any other nation,

but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.