| Words That Keep Me Going |
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| BRAIN POWER "When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions." Carter G. Woodson "The mind is the standard of the man." Paul Lawrence Dunbar "The key to success is to change 'the picture' in your mind before you start the action required to achieve your goal." Pam Lontos, motivational speaker "There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action." Geothe "Bad decisions lead to bad consequences." Patrick McCarthy, SSJ, late St. Augustine HS teacher "A child miseducated is a child lost." John F. Kennedy, Sr. "'Tis the mind that makes the body rich." William Shakespeare "Confusion can give way to doubt." Isley Brothers, "At Your Best" "Education is not the filling of a pail. It is the lighting of a fire." Yeats "I understood, early on, that what education had given me was richer than anything anybody could ever give me in the form of material goods. So I have my wealth. It's in my mind." Dr. Ruth J. Simmons, president Brown University "Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." Theodore Roosevelt "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civlize and sterilize you." F. Scott Fitzgerald "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." Robert Frost |
| ATTITUDE & CHARACTER "It ain't where ya from/It's where ya at." Rakim, "I Know You Got Soul" "Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln "The man who knows something/Knows he knows nothing at all." Erykah Badu, "Round and Round" "Pace is nothing more than desire." "Inaquandry" (BlackPlanet.com member) "The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." Helen Keller "Events mean nothing if your spirit or pride is false." Lawrence Ross, Jr., author "It's not what you call me. It's what I answer to." African Proverb "Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance and crime." Susan Taylor, Essence Magazine "No one can make you inferior without your own consent." Eleanor Roosevelt "One man with courage makes a majority." Andrew Jackson "We may go to the moon but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us." Gen. Charles deGaulle "Who loves himself best need fear no rival." Latin Proverb "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence . . . nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent." Calvin Coolidge "Persistence beats resistence every time." Debra Gould, New Orleans author, speaker and trainer "Whatever you give voice to is what you will attract." Monica Pierre, New Orleans broadcaster, speaker, author and actor "I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Bill Cosby "Those who matter don't judge and those who judge don't matter." LeBron Joseph, New Orleans radio program director "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value." Thomas Paine "I knew that my attitude, more than any other factor, would determine my success or failure." Willie Davis, former Green Bay Packer speaking to Dennis Kimbro in "Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice" "Many times greatness will not make its entrance until adversity has paved the way." Dennis Kimbro, PhD, "What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement" "The opposite of compromise is character." Frederick Douglass "One falsehood spoils a thousand truths." Ashanti Proverb "It is not what you have lost but what you left that counts." Chucky Mullins, late Ole Miss football player speaking to Dennis Kimbro in "Think and Grow Rich" "If you're satisfied with just getting by, step aside for the person who isn't!" A. G. Gaston, speaking to Dennis Kimbro in "Think and Grow Rich" "Sometimes the only Gospel people see is you. They're not gonna read it in The Bible or anything like that. They're gonna see the way you live your life." Danny Abramowicz, former New Orleans Saint "Don't allow yourself to become upset by people or things. They are powerless. Your reaction is their power." Unknown "Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' I dream of tings that never were and say, 'Why not?'" Robert F. Kennedy "Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." Louis Pasteur "If you don't think everyday is a good day, just try missing one." Cavett Robert, motivational speaker "Sorry looks back, worry looks away and Faith looks up." Anonymous "It doesn't take a miracle to make a lifestyle change. It takes hard work and allowing yourself to be human." Sherry Gideons, fitness athlete "Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left." Itzhak Perlman "Those who work for money alone, and those who receive nothing but money for their efforts are always underpaid." Dennis Kimbro, "Think and Grow Rich" "Ultimately the only way to stay good is to not work for money. The day you start working for money is the day your career is over." Chris Rock "Any disease of the soul must be conquered by a turning of one's soul. This turning is done through one's own affirmation of one's worth---an affirmation fueled by the concern of others." Cornel West, "Race Matters" "The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goals. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach." Benjamin Mays "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." Dale Carnegie "The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound under the scar." Ernst Shroder "Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread." Richard Wright from "Native Son" "How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever." David B. Norris "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain of self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense." Thomas Arnold Bennett "When your work speaks for itself, don't interupt." Henry J. Kaiser "It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln |
| SUCCESS "Every time you master failure your faith becomes stronger and you are better prepared to meet your next obstacle." Dennis Kimbro, "Think and Grow Rich" "Everything may not be possible today but sooner or later it is possible." Earl Graves "With your hands you make your success. With your hands you destroy your success." Yoruba Proverb "Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best; let us use our lives more wisely, chase our dreams, find our true purpose and be as happy and successful as possible." Malcolm X "Strive. Wait. Pray. Be proud. Try to find your outer limits and don't worry about falling on your face." Percy Sutton, owner of the Apollo Theater "The people who are going to be around are the ones who are going to be able to keep up with the time." Master P "None of the secrets of success will work unless you do." Fortune Cookie "Success always involves risk. You can't steal second base with your foot on first." Frederick Cox, motivational speaker "A successful person is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him." David Brinkley "We always miss 100% of the shots we don't take." Anonymous "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." Anonymous "Study and observe what others do that cause them to fail and don't do it. Study and observe what others do that cause them to succeed and learn from them." Jewel Diamond Taylor, motivational speaker "Never be afraid to try anything new. Amateurs built the Ark. Experts built the Titanic." Anonymous "The successful man or woman has a guiding vision, a dream, a sense of focus. He or she has a clear idea of what he or she wants to have, do or accomplish." Dennis Kimbro, "Think and Grow Rich" "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein "If you want a comfortable life . . . you'll wake up at 74 only to accomplish a third of what you're capable of." Colin Cowherd, ESPN Radio "Ninety-nine percent of winning is what people don't see you doing." Mike Golic, former NFL player & ESPN radio co-host |
| SOCIETY & COMMUNITY "Nobody can everything but everybody can do something." Gil-Scott Heron "He who does not understand the past is doomed to relive it." George Santayana "Every time we try to lift a problem off our own shoulders and shift the problem to the hands of the government, we are sacrificing the liberties of the people." Jack Douglas, "The Myth of the Welfare State" "A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." Henrik Ibsen "The reason I'm not a Democrat or Republican or a leftist or a rightist or any other kind of 'ist' is because I believe that every issue needs to be considered on its own merit, not glossed over with some kind of prefab rhetoric." Jesse Ventura, "Do I Stand Alone?" |
| RACE "If we repudiate racism and dominance our ancestors will thank us for allowing their souls to finally rest in peace." Tony Brown, "Black Lies, White Lies: The Truth According to Tony Brown" "Though we can't change the color of our skin, we can sure change the color of our thinking." Dennis Kimbro, "Think and Grow Rich" "Our ethnic origin is out of our control but the substance of what's inside will always be." Phelisa, member of blackplanet.com "If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose to elect and defend to first of all Americans; to present to the world an homogeneous and unbroken front, whether white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green." William Faulkner "If we fail to unite there will be no black or white winners only American losers." Tony Brown, "White Lies, Black Lies" |
| LEADERSHIP "Quality leadership is neither the product of one great individual nor the result of odd historical accidents. Rather it comes from deeply bred traditions and communities that shape and mold talented and gifted persons." Cornel West, "Race Matters" "He or she who speaks, leads." Ron Arden, speaking and acting coach "You can't be a leader if you don't own your opinions." Ron Arden "A decision is the actiion an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself." Admiral Arthur W. Radford "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| MY THOUGHTS "You can't be all things to all people but you can be everything to yourself." "Don't bore humanity with the tales of what you can't do. Enlighten us with the reality of what you will do!" "Sometimes the illusion you create is not what you think you are, but what you are not." "People without a sense of discipline always want to get to the good part before they do the hard part." "When life gives you a bowl of crap, flush the toilet!" "The three most important things anyone can do in life are sit down, shut up and listen." |
| HUMOR "My daddy used to tell me that a jackass in a suit is still a jackass." C.J. Morgan, New Orleans radio morning show personality "Adults are obsolete children." Dr. Seuss "Those who do not have time for exercise will have to find time for illness." Anonymous "People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them." Eric Hoffer, humorist "If you can't be nice, at least have the decency to be vague." Steven Wright "If people operated their automobiles the way they operate their lives they would never get out of the driveway." BJG Conklin "What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself." Abraham Lincoln "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." Mark Twain |
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