1. Bill Cosby
“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
2. Raven Symone
“Don’t spend all of your time trying to be like someone else because you can never be them and they can never be you.
3. Jay-Z
“If I was going to be successful, I had to be successful with myself. I couldn’t be successful doing what other people were doing…The worst thing to be is as successful as someone else. That’s a very difficult thing to upkeep and very tiring”
4. Tyrese
“Life is a menu so remember whoever and whatever you order for your life is what’s gonna be delivered to your table.”
5. Ruby Dee
“God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.”
6. Barack Obama
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
7. Beyonce
“Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, ‘What are you gonna do about it?’ I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.”
8. Will Smith
“Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, God-like, feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us. It’s very simple. This is what I believe, and I’m willing to die for it.”
9. Oprah Winfrey
“Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.”
10. Michelle Obama
“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”
