Hidni Quotes

A great leader does not follow trends but creates them.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

If you wait for 90%,

in most cases,

you’re probably being slow.

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.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I learned to read at age three,

and soon discovered there was a whole world,

to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Patience is a key element of success.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe,

think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway,

think big.

Sometimes when you innovate,

you make mistakes.

It is best to admit them quickly,

and get on with improving your other innovations.

I'm never pleased with anything,

I'm a perfectionist,

it's part of who I am.

Travel isn’t always pretty.

It isn’t always comfortable.

Sometimes it hurts,

it even breaks your heart.

But that’s okay.

The journey changes you;

it should change you.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

You have to have a sense of humor about yourself.

For everything you have missed,

you have gained something else,

and for everything you gain,

you lose something else.

No one saves us but ourselves.

No one can and no one may.

We are going to fight racism and economic exploitation

at the same time.

In 'Huckleberry Finn,'

I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.

He was ignorant, unwashed,

insufficiently fed;

but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.