Motivational Quotes

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that,

but they don't always help you with that career path.

I am only an average man but, by George,

I work harder at it than the average man.

Money often costs too much.

Racism is still with us.

But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet,

and,

hopefully,

we shall overcome.

You can’t produce a baby in one month

by getting nine women pregnant.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,

none but ourselves can free our minds.

You have to run your own race,

at your own pace.

Existence precedes essence.

Being powerful is like being a lady.

If you have to tell people you are,

you aren’t.

Take risks,

push yourself,

and leave it all in the ring.

Between stimulus and response there is a space.

In that space is our power to choose our response.

We are just trying to make tools for people.

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight

the hardest battle which anyone can imagine

until you reach your destination.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska,

or other new territories,

is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there.

The whole nation is interested that the best

use shall be made of these territories.

We want them for the homes of free white people.

Part of the secret of a success in life

is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I found what I was looking for at Langley.

This was what a research mathematician did.

I went to work every day for 33 years happy.

Never did I get up and say I don't want to go to work.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

Build a better mousetrap

and the world will beat a path to your door.

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression.

We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference,

accepting the false pattern set up by

the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

The most important thing to do

if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.