I had a mom who told me from the very beginning that you can do or be anything you dream to and I believed it.

Chris Gardner

Chris Gardner on his mother believing in him

February 14, 2017

Source: A Drink With, 2014

Growing up, my Mom and Dad were so much, 'Don't be like the average athlete, and have all this money and spend it all.'

Serena Williams

So we mustn't run out of steam. Sometimes young women think ‘Dammnnn, I’ve been doing this nine years and I don’t think anything has budged.' But keep plugging away. Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success and then just get a little more.

Maya Angelou

They tell you: Follow your dreams. Listen to your spirit. Change the world. Make your mark. Find your inner voice and make it sing. Embrace failure. Dream. Dream and dream big. As a matter of fact, dream and don't stop dreaming until all of your dreams come true. I think that's crap.

Shonda Rhimes

I want people to remember me the way they know Nike, that level of impact.

Kanye West

Dream on baby, don't dream on what you can have, dream about what the devil says you can't have. Dream for the best. Dream for the best healing. Dream for the best deliverance, dream for the best house. Dream for the best car, just 'cause the world don't have it doesn't mean you can't have it.

Creflo Dollar

Life is a test. You have to examine your life and what did/ did not work for you to pass this test.

Tamela Mann

If we were in a restaurant, my dad would make me order first because I'd always order what Venus ordered. I still do it. He wanted me to have a mind of my own.

Serena Williams

Let people do things. If they do it better than you, let them do it. You have to recognize that in order for this plane to fly, I need co-pilots, I need engineers, I need passengers.

Judith Jamison

So you can’t tell him what you “can’t” do. His whole thing was, “I don’t want to hear about the problem, I want to see the solution.” There’s always a solution.

Michael Strahan

I also learned how to release, how to let go. That’s a constant learning process — how to let go and let somebody else do it who knows how to do it better than you do it. If it keeps the plane in the air, fine.

Judith Jamison

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

Ursula Burns

I don’t want to be good at it, I don’t want to be pretty good at it, I want to be world class at it.

Chris Gardner

And I think we tend to gain more from what we perceive as negatives as opposed to what we perceive as positives.

Cicely Tyson

You need to have tunnel vision when chasing your goal.

Star Jones

I was really depressed – and I’m never depressed – but that was truly a rough moment in time. So I thought to myself, how am I going to get out of this? How do I get through this? But, I got through it. You know, you get through it. You get passed it. You just gotta learn from it.

Tichina Arnold

The one thing he always told us was spend less than you make. It sounds so simple.

Tony Dungy

My father was a great man with great wisdom. He told me that to be an entertainer was great, but he told me to be a blessing. I wanted to be a better citizen of the world.

Sheryl Underwood

Every mistake that I've made so far, I'm showing these girls how to not do that. It's like I'm Jesus. I made the mistake for them.

Amber Rose

I’ve come to learn in my life that failure’s a wonderful teacher. I’ve scooped a lot of the dog poop off the sidewalk so you wouldn’t have to step in it.

Steve Harvey

You cannot stop me from dreaming. I'm gon' dream until Jesus comes.

Creflo Dollar

My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

Steve Harvey

You know how they say life is full of lessons, and each time you experience something you’re supposed to learn from it, and if you don’t it happens again? Well, it took three times for me and every single time it was about three months of me living in my car.

Tiffany Haddish

When I moved to New York City, my mom dropped me off at the train station, and she stopped the car, and she just said to me, "Uzo, just work hard. I don't know what will come. I don't know when it will come. But if you work hard, I know something will come." And that stayed on my spirit. It's like seeped into the marrow of my soul, that if I can just work hard, I don't know what the thing will be, something will come.

Uzo Aduba

My mom has always taught me and my siblings the Word, and I don’t know what I would do without my faith and strong beliefs.

Gabrielle Douglas

With Obama, the glass ceiling has been broken with what men can aspire to, and now we need to do the same for women and what women can aspire to.

Octavia Spencer

Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.

Shonda Rhimes

I think that’s the easiest thing to determine because how someone is and what someone shows to you will be a sign, a habit. If the friendship's not meant for you, then you have to let it go.

Letitia Wright

I have found that when preparation meets opportunity, nothing is out of reach.

Star Jones

You can dream your life away or actually do what you dream of doing.

Shonda Rhimes

There will be times you are challenged and tested. Understand and try to find the meaning of why you were placed in that situation. The situation is not the tragedy; the tragedy is not finding the time to face the meaning.

Robin Roberts

He said, 'Go to work, get your money and come home. You don't live there.'

Toni Morrison