I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back ~ Maya Angelou
If someone tells you who they are, believe them ~ Maya Angelou
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t ~ Margaret Thatcher
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard to get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity ~ Ruby Dee
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry ~ Robert Burns
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be cricized anyway. You’ll be damend if you do and damned if you don’t. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different ~ Coco Chanel
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is ~ Margaret Mitchell
You can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do ~ Liz Smith
I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future ~ Ralph Abernathy
When you educate a man you educate an individual, but when you educate a woman, you educate a nation ~ Johnnetta B. Cole
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody ~ Bill Cosby
Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for ~ Marian Wright Edelman
The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. ~ Leontyne Price
You can’t look forward and backward at the same time ~ Coleman Young