Sucsess Quotes

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

A girl phoned me the other day and said...

Come on over, there's nobody home.

I went over.

Nobody was home.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

He who is overly attached to his family members

experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I firmly believe that

unless one has tasted

the bitter pill of failure,

one cannot aspire

enough for success.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway,

think big.

Man needs

His difficulties

Because they are

Necessary to

Enjoy success

To become 'unique,'

the challenge is to fight

the hardest battle

which anyone can imagine

until you reach your destination.

Count your age by friends,

not years.

Count your life by smiles,

not tears.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

For every minute you remain angry,

you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Friendship is

one mind in

two bodies.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I have no special talent.

I am only passionately curious.

You have to be passionate about what you do.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.