We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
ARTHUR ASHEWhen bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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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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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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I don’t care who you are, you’re going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don’t move and you can’t take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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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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Start where you are, use what you have.
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I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
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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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