Quote 1:
“You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.” -Michelle Obama
Quote 2:
“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
Quote 3:
“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”
-Dr. Mae Jamison
Quote 4:
“Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.” -Diana Ross
Quote 5:
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
-Langston Hughes
Quote 6:
“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote 7:
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker
Quote 8:
“What you’re thinking is what you’re becoming.”
-Muhammad Ali
Quote 9:
“No action is too small when it comes to changing the world… I’m inspired every time I meet an entrepreneur who is succeeding against all odds.”
-Cyril Ramaphosa
Quote 10:
“You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.” -Amelia Boynton Robinson
Quote 11:
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” -Frederick Douglass
Quote 12:
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela
Quote 13:
“Whatever is brining you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free… your true self comes out.”
-Tina Turner
Quote 14:
“Have a vision. Be demanding.”
-Colin Powell
Quote 15:
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of that tapestry are equal in value no matter their color.”
-Maya Angelou
Quote 16:
“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
-Malcolm X
Quote 17:
“The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren’t worth anything. But our parents said it wasn’t so, and our churches and our schoolteachers said it wasn’t so. They believed in us, and we, therefore, believed in ourselves.”
-Marian Wright Edelman
Quote 18:
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
-Audre Lorde
Quote 19:
“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts… good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.” -Michelle Obama
Quote 20:
“Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”
-Oprah Winfrey
Quote 21:
“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.”
-President Barack Obama
Quote 22:
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.”
-Maya Angelou
Believe in yourself… you are capable of great things and never forget that. You are here to do something that only you can do, because there is only one you. Do not wait and let someone else half do what you were meant to do. You do it and do it right. We got this… until next time!