You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
—Arthur Ashe
Topics: Wisdom, Winners, Winning
Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
—Arthur Ashe
Topics: Appearance, Winners, Winning
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
—Arthur Ashe
I wanted to indulge and explore my love of humanity and especially my concern for persons less fortunate than myself.
—Arthur Ashe
From what we get, we can make a living. What we give, however, makes a life.
—Arthur Ashe
My only true regret, however, is that now that I see the world more clearly than ever, as I believe I do, I don’t seem to have the time left to translate my visions into action as I would like.
—Arthur Ashe
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
—Arthur Ashe
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
—Arthur Ashe
Topics: Fear
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
—Arthur Ashe
Topics: Strength, Preparation, Confidence
My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
—Arthur Ashe
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.
—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.
—Arthur Ashe
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
—Arthur Ashe
Topics: Success & Failure, Success, Strength
We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
—Arthur Ashe
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 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.
—Arthur Ashe
Topics: Heroes/Heroism, Heroes, Vision
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
—Arthur Ashe
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
—Arthur Ashe
I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
—Arthur Ashe
I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems.
—Arthur Ashe
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