Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.
For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others.
It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.
You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. ... Now, I've been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can't take it with me, and neither can you. It's not how much you have but what you do with what you have.
Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your kids and ask them a lot of questions. You have to stay involved in your children's lives and monitor everything they're doing whether they like it or not. You're not in the job of making them like it. You're there to protect them in a world that can be troubling.
True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already.
Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.
Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.
Thank God in advance for what's already yours.
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.
If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control
My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.
We live in a time when people give up too easy.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
If you want to be a warrior, you have to train.
I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.
You never know how you're going to affect people.
"It's important for us to tell our stories."
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