Quotes About Progress

Failure is an event not a person

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

We Afficans try raise our chillun right. When dey say we ign'nant we go together and build de school house. Den de county send us a teacher. We Afficky men doan wait lak de other colored people till de white folks gittee ready to build us a school. We build one for ourself den astee de county to send us de teacher.

for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you....

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Whuss de news? Oh de white folks is still in de lead.

De man dat built things oughta boss it. Let colored folks build things too if dey wants to crow over somethin'.

But, don't care how firm your determination is, you can't keep turning round in one place like a horse grinding sugar cane.

De first street lamp in uh colored town. Lift yo' eyes and gaze on it. And when Ah touch de match tuh dat lamp-wick let de light penetrate inside of yuh, and let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Us colored folks is too envious of one 'nother. Dat's how come us don't git no further than us do. Us talks about de white man keepin' us down! Shucks! He don't have tuh. Us keeps our own selves down.

Lot's wife lookee back and turn to a pillar of salt and she be dere till Judgment Day. Poor Cudjo, I no lookee back. I pressee forward.

Many a man thinks he is making something when he's only changing things around.

You mean uh whole town uh nothin' but colored folks? Who bosses it, den? Dey bosses it deyself. You mean dey runnin' de town 'thout de white folks? Sho is. Eben got a mayor and corporation. Ah sho wants tuh see dat sight.

Next month and next year were other times. No need to mix them up with the present.

If a company is growing, then people's roles often grow and change, and opportunities abound.

I don't think any of us are above the ability to change football from what it is.

Moving abroad brings you on both as a player and a person.

People have asked me, 'Do you consider yourself a trailblazer?' Absolutely not. And the reason I say this is, I am aware of the women who came before me.

Me and my wife started with absolutely nothing.

It takes time for people to absorb change.

My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.

Too many children lose ground academically over the summer months.