Race Quotes

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.

Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called ‘the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.’ These three evils were consuming our hopes for community in 1964, and, fifty years later, we remain divided because of their festering effects.

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.