By The Urban Daily
1) “I’m not conceited, I’m just convinced. I’m so modest, I can admit my own faults and my only fault is I don’t realize how great I really am.”
2) “I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”
3) “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
4) “Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.”
5) “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it.”
6) “It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”
7) “The man with no imagination has no wings.”
8) “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
9) “I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; Handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; Only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.”
10) “There are many white people who mean right and in their hearts wanna do right. If 10,000 snakes were coming down that aisle now, and I had a door that I could shut, and in that 10,000, 1,000 meant right, 1,000 rattlesnakes didn’t want to bite me, I knew they were good… Should I let all these rattlesnakes come down, hoping that the thousand get together and form a shield?”
11) “It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.”
12) “A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
13) “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
14) “Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
15) ‘Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee’
