C haracter
M astery
S uccess
Success doesn’t come to you…you go to it.
Marva Collins, African American Educator
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby, American actor and comedian
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
Have a vision. Be demanding.
– Colin Powell
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
– Booker T. Washington
Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”
Susan L. Taylor
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson, African-American civil rights activist
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes, African-American poet
Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is Love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michealangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
Martin Luther King, African-American civil rights leader
I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey, American TV host
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan, African-American basketball player
I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.
Reggie Jackson, African-American baseball player
