Shayri Quotes

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You're on your own,

and you know what you know.

And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself.

I’ll take a child that has talent and a great mother over a child

that has world class talent and a mother that’s a nut.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

Truth is stranger than fiction,

but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities;

Truth isn't.

I'm never pleased with anything,

I'm a perfectionist,

it's part of who I am.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind;

it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Stay focused on your goals,

no matter the distractions.

Man is the only animal that blushes

or needs to.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,

but what you want is someone,

who will take the bus with you,

when the limo breaks down.

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.

This is a competition,

not a recital.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I just wish I could understand my father.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight

it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Don’t become a philosopher before you become rich.

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.

Courage is being scared to death,

but saddling up anyway.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

I’ve always been a fan of the theatrical.