Chartacter Quotes

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.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature,

nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Be humble.

Be hungry.

And always be the hardest worker in the room.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Think like a queen.

A queen is not afraid to fail.

Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Life is about perseverance and believing in your art.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Liberty cannot be established unless

the rulers are prevented from making arbitrary laws.

Winning is not a sometime thing;

it’s an all time thing.

The most incomprehensible thing

about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Life is full of misery,

loneliness,

and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon.

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to

sit quietly in a room alone.

Great things come from hard work and perseverance.

I don't know who my grandfather was;

I am much more concerned to know

what his grandson will be.

Use only that which works.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.