Motivational Quotes

I'm black,

I don't feel burdened by it and,

I don't think it's a huge responsibility,

It's part of who I am,

It does not define me.

The thing you fear most has no power.

Your fear of it is what has the power.

Facing the truth really will set you free.

I was raised to believe that excellence,

is the best deterrent to racism or sexism,

And that's how I operate my life.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

You know you are on the road to success,

if you would do your job,

and not be paid for it.

When I look into the future,

it's so bright it burns my eyes.

You CAN have it all.

You just can't have it all at once.

The challenge of life I have found,

is to build a resume that doesn't simply,

tell a story about what you want to be,

but it's a story about who you want to be.

Every day,

you're only as good as your last show.

You can either see yourself as a wave,

in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

My philosophy is that not only,

are you responsible for your life,

but doing the best at this moment,

puts you I the best place for the next moment.

I am a woman in process.

I'm just trying like everybody else.

I try to take every conflict,

every experience,

and learn from it.

Life is never dull.

I don't think of myself

as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good.

I think of myself as somebody

who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself,

and I had to make good.

Whatever has happened to you in your past,

has no power over this present moment,

because life is now.

I believe that every single event in life

happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

The whole point of being alive

is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Real integrity is doing the right thing,

knowing that nobody's going,

to know whether you did it or not.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do.

Fail at it.

Try again.

Do better the second time.

The only people who never tumble,

those who never mount the high wire,

This is your moment,

Own it.

Where there is no struggle,

there is no strength.