Shayri Quotes

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

I had felt for a long time that,

if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,

that I would refuse to do so.

One good thing about music,

when it hits you,

you feel no pain.

The Internet is becoming the town square for

the global village of tomorrow.

Satire is meant to hurt those who deserve it,

and amuse those who don’t.

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.

I have never taken any exercise,

except sleeping and resting,

and I never intend to take any.

There is no substitute for hard work.

There are basically two types of people.

People who accomplish things,

and people who claim to have accomplished things.

The first group is less crowded.

Flowers... are a proud assertion

that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier

to prevent an enemy from posting themselves

than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

You have to fight for your place in history.

I have discovered in life

that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go,

if you really want to go.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em,

'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Some single mind must be master,

else there will be no agreement in anything.

I’ve learned that mistakes

can often be as good a teacher as success.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

If I have seen further,

it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Too many of us are not living our dreams

because we are living our fears.