Ten More Positive Quotations

1. "I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it. That is why I want to say to every Negro....don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them." Madame C.J. Walker

2. "You have to focus on what you can do. There are people who convince themselves that they can't do anything with their lives because of what's happened to them---and they're right. They can't. But the reason is that they've told themselves they can't." Wally "Famous" Amos

3. "Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect." Terry McMillan in Disappearing Acts

4. "Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before." Shelby Steele

5. "I've never been afraid to fail....I think I'm strong enough as a person to accept failure, but I will not accept not trying." Michael Jordan

6. "We cannot stand still; we cannot permit ourselves simply to be victims." W.E.B. DuBois

7. "Faults are like a hill: You stand on top of your own and talk about those of other people." Hausa Proverb

8. "Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in your life." Susan L. Taylor, In the Spirit

9. "No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies you the right to grow." Alice Walker in In Search Of Our Mothers Garden

10. "Speak softly and sweetly because you never know when you have to eat your words." Trinidad and Tobago Folk Saying