Being black or white isn’t an accomplishment. What you do with your life – or what you accomplish with your life – dictates what you should be proud of.
CHARLES BARKLEY
CHARLES BARKLEY
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Charles Barkley85 quotes“Being black or white isn’t an accomplishment. What you do with your life – or what you accomplish with your life – dictates what you should be proud of.”
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Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley This is why I hate white people. You guys try to turn everything into a racial issue.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley I don’t have time to put up with the politics. Who’s a Democrat? Who’s a Republican? Who’s liberal? Who’s conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That’s what I’m concerned about.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley I was a Republican until they lost their minds.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley When you get arrested it’s in big letters. When you get acquitted it’s in small letters.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley Social media is where losers go to feel important.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley I’m not paid to be a role model. I’m paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley It’s the kind of game that makes you go home and beat your wife.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley When I speak to kids I tell them, ‘Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they’re going to get smarter as you get older.’
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley I’d never buy my girl a watch… she’s already got a clock over the stove.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley I don’t think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley Well, all I can say is that people know I’m not saying anything out of malice.
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Charles R. SwindollCharles R. Swindoll A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.
Sathya Sai BabaSathya Sai Baba Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it – in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
John C. MaxwellJohn C. Maxwell I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I’m going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.
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ChanakyaChanakya Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
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