"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

Being, Respect

42

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

Exlpore more Being quotes

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

Being, Choice, Focus, Future

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Being, Right

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

Being, Censure, Tax, Man

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Being, Nothing

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Country, Nothing

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Earth, Profession

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Being, World

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Being, Key, Language

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

John Irving, American Novelist

Being, Habits, Worth

"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

Being, Perfection

Explore more quotes by Jackie Robinson

"It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first."

Winning

"How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts."

Sports

"I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label."

Politics

"This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done."

Fun

"Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade."

Sports

"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."

Life

"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."

Time

42

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Being quotes

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

"It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully."

Explore more quotes by Jackie Robinson

"It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first."

"How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts."

"I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label."

"This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done."

"Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade."

"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."

"Above anything else, I hate to lose."

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."

"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."