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 ASHEDrummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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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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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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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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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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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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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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.
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Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, “Let’s see if he can juggle another one.”
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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