I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
ARTHUR ASHEWith what we give, we make a life.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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It doesn’t have to glitter to be gold.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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