Jackie Robinson

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I don’t let my mouth say nothin’ my head can’t stand.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

Plenty of times I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin, but I had to hold to myself. I knew I was kind of an experiment. The whole thing was bigger than me.

I don’t like needing anyone for anything.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up.

Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.