Author: Arthur Ashe

Quotes

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

- Arthur Ashe

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

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 Ashe

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

- Arthur Ashe

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

- Arthur Ashe

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

- Arthur Ashe

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

- Arthur Ashe

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

- Arthur Ashe

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.

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.

- Arthur Ashe

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.

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.

- Arthur Ashe

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