"You are where you are today because you stand on somebody's shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life…

"If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money."

…

"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them." 

- Madam C.J. Walker

“You can’t solve a problem with the same mindset that created it” 

-Charlamagne Tha God

“There are two kinds of worries—those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.”

—Duke Ellington

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

—President Barack Obama

“When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”

—George Washington Carver

"I just don’t believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression." 

– Malcolm X

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."

– Nelson Mandela (South…

"The key is to remember that no matter who you are, or where you come from , your dream is out there."

Charlamagne Tha God

If you're scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers.

Nas

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' 
Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have 
at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along 
Napoleon Hill

If you do what you ought to do, when you ought to do it, the time will come when 
you can do the what you want to do, when you want to do it 
Zig Ziglar

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily 
Never tell yourself this is too much for me 
It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too 
Keep believing and…

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop 
Confucius

People do not lack strength; they lack will 
Victor Hugo

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, 
is the quality that most frequently makes for success 
Dale Carnegie

The majority of people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in 
creating new plans to take the place of those which fail 
Napoleon Hill

"When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. 
My success is based on persistence, not luck." 
Estee Lauder

DON’T MAKE EXCUSES FOR NOT HAVING THE LIFE YOU WANT. THERE’S TONS OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE WHO STARTED WITH MUCH LESS THAN YOU HAVE. IF YOU CAN READ THIS YOU ALREADY HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. 

-LUIS…

“Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your Character is who you are, and your Reputation is who people think you are.” 

-John Wooden

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who the habit of making excuses.” 

-George Washington Carver

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” 

-F.M. Alexander

“It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time that we have.” 

-Gary Keller

“I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of NOT TRYING.” 

-Jay Z