Andrew Young Quotes


"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Nothing)

"Wishing of all strategies, is the worst."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Wishing)

"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Men, Work, Day, Fool, Heaven, Reform, Tomorrow)

"To find people who don't want anything is rare."
- Andrew Young
(Related: People, Want)

"The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport."
- Andrew Young
"President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed."
- Andrew Young
(Related: President)

"Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Diplomacy, Xerox)

"On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Bed, Luxury)

"I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Thoughts, Wealth, Mind, State, Thinking)

"I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Life, Dream, Opportunity, American, Americans, Poor, Poverty)

"I tried. But not everybody thought so."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Thought)

"If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Living, Nonsense, Talk)

"In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Change, Survival, Violence, World)

"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Influence)

"It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Cause, Nothing)

"Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise."
- Andrew Young
"No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty."
- Andrew Young
"Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Power)

"My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts."
- Andrew Young
(Related: God, Hope, Children, Voice)

"Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life."
- Andrew Young
(Related: Life, People, Civil rights, Leaders, Poor)