- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington
- Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower. -Thurgood Marshall
- Each person must live their life as a model for others. - Rosa Parks
- I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. - Michael Jordan
- Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. - Ella Fitzgerald
- Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. - Barak Obama
- I swear to the Lord I still can’t see why democracy means everybody but me. - Langston Hughes
- I changed what I could, and what I couldn't, I endured. - Dorothy Vaughn
- Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness. - Ola Joseph
- Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell. - Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook
- In order to succeed, you have to do well and perform well. Don't do less and accept less. Put in the time and complete the task. You want to be a contributing member to every group you are part of. - Jeanette Epps
- My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu
- If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
- I'm always interested in learning something new. - Katherine Johnson
- Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life. - Jackie Robinson
- If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win. - Carl Lewis
- Never be limited by other people's imaginations. - Dr. Mae Jemison
- Life has two rules: number 1, never quit! Number 2, always remember rule number one. - Duke Ellington
- Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. - Oprah Winfrey
- If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. - James Baldwin
- The greatest challenge that I faced in becoming a neurosurgeon was believing it was possible. - Alexa Canady
- You are your best thing. - Toni Morrison
- A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela
- Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us. - Susan L. Taylor
- More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather. - James Earl Jones
- We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right. - Aretha Franklin
- Have a vision. Be demanding. - Colin Powell
- My success and failures make me who I am. - Janet Emerson Bashen
- The time is always right to do what is right. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thanks to Parade for publishing this web site. It made the task of finding these quotes much easier.
My fav is #22.
