C.L. Bryant Quotes

Only an idiot would doubt my return

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

I'm going to be the Will Smith of the NBA.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

I think nobody can explain why some people win and why some people lose. It really doesn't always have to do much with talent. It has to do with how you deal with pressure.

LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

I've got four dogs, and I just don't do dog doo. I'm a diva when it comes to that.

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

Nobody in the world can guard me one-on-one.

To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with one's own without interference by the king or any other man.

Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.

The chief function of stock-market forecasters is to make astrologers look respectable.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

The nightmare spirit of control has always been, and is, profoundly stupid.

[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.

And at my silent window-sill The jessamine peeps in.

You get the most out of what you need the least.

He [William Henry Harrison] did not live long enough to prove his incapacity for the office of President.

Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

Everyone needs a small-town banker. Especially in a big town.

Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

Everyone said, 'You can't lose money in real estate, because they're not making any more of it.' Hmmmm. Where did everyone go wrong?

I'm not the most patient of people...

It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

It never bothered me when people would say, 'You only win championships because you're playing with Shaq.' It bothered me when he said it.

If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.

And the blue gentian-flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.

I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own comportment and conduct as a good listener.

The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

Equality is never given, it is taken.

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.

They tugged plans and ambitions out their as*es and held tight to the first that didn't smell so strongly of shit.

Peace is a way of constructively handling natural conflict.

There is no way to escape conflict in life, and there is no way to escape peace in life.

If you can begin to believe in your own beauty, you can then begin to believe in the beauty of others.

Some people know of no other way to interface with others except through their created chaos.

Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict.