Quote by Arthur Ashe
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and i

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless. . . . We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models. – Arthur Ashe

Other quotes by Arthur Ashe

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. – Arthur Ashe

Category:
Competition
Read Quote

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

Category:
Education
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Role models
category

My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Role models

One does not become a guru by accident. – James Fenton

Category:
Role models

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Role models

I never thought a role model should be negative. – Michael Jordan

Category:
Role models

Random Quotes

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. – Alexei Sayle

Category:
Death

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! – Louisa May Alcott

Category:
Graduation

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. – James M. Barrie

Category:
best

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people. – Will Cuppy

Category:
respect