“Feed Your Mind Quotations”
Helping Hands Marketing Group is committed to helping you achieve the goals you
set for yourself. As part of the journey to where you want to go, it’s important
to know your history.
To help develop awareness of the wealth of knowledge and inspiration in the
African-American community, we host a weekly "Feed Your Mind Quote" contest.
Each week a quote is given and the first person to respond with the correct
author receives recognition on the next conference call and a token of
appreciation.
Following are recent quotes with a list of previous winners. Expand your horizons
and participate in learning more about the "foundations of success" we continue
to build upon. During our forum meeting in North Carolina, our top three repeat
winners were recognized; First Place - Lynn Bishop, Second Place - Felicia
Freeman and Third Place - Sharon Lucas.
Current Quote – ""Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted.
Each victory must be applauded, because it is so easy not to battle at all,
to just accept and call that acceptance inevitable."
"Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears
easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties."
Author - Benjamin Banneker, Winner - Sharon Lucas
"Patience and flexibility are very important, but action is most important."
Author - Katherine Dunham, Winner - Lynn Bishop
"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality."
Author - Toni Cade Bambara, Winner - Lynn Bishop
"It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part. "
Author - Frederick Douglass, Winner - Lynn Bishop
"Do not ever give up on your dream. Whatever you really want to achieve, to
possess, to conquer, to discover, or to enjoy--go for it and inspire others along
the way. Let them see your dedication, your persistence, and your victory when
you reach your goal" Author - T. D. Jakes, Winner - Sharon Lucas
"The thing that I have done throughout my life, is to do the best job that I can,
to be me.” Author – Mae Jemison, Winner – Sharon Lucas
"I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities." Author - Whoopi
Goldberg, Winner-Felicia Freeman
If you are satisfied to be mediocre, you are indifferent to yourself because you
don't believe you're entitled to more." Author – S. B. Fuller, No Winner
“There is power and unity and strength in networking.” Author – Willie Gary, No
Winner
“We may not have all the power we want, but we have all the power we need.
All we have to do is believe it and use it." Author – Bruce Gordon, Winner –
Felicia Freeman
"...if you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount
of things you can accomplish." Author – Marion Anderson, Winner – Sharon
Lucas
"You must believe in yourself when no one else does. That's what makes you a
winner." Author – Venus Williams, Winner – Sharon Lucas
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love
and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." Author – Ella Fitzgerald,
Winner – Felicia Freeman
“We all have an obligation to be about more than our own agendas. We have an
obligation to be more than about just making money or seeking the limelight."
Author – Willie Gary, Winner – Felicia Freeman
"...success is founded on seeing and satisfying the needs of people." Author –
A.G. Gaston, Winner – Felicia Freeman
"Be ready to take advantage of all opportunities. Not only when opportunity
knocks at your door, but be ready to knock on opportunity's door." Author -
Chaplain (Lt.) Stanley S. Burley, Winner – Felicia Freeman
"Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for
yourself." Author - Marcus Garvey, Winner - Brenda Blackie
"Having been given, I must give." Author - Paul Robeson, Winner - Lynn Bishop
"If you don't have confidence, you will always find a way not to win." Author -
Carl Lewis, Winner - Felicia Freeman
"Did you ever have a goal and still not know where you're going? I knew I wasn't
going to stay where I was, but I wasn't sure just where I was going." Author -
Joe Louis, Winner - Lynn Bishop
"The only one who can beat me is me." Author - Michael Johnson, Winner -
Sharon Lucas
"One of the things I learnt when I was negotiating was that until I changed
myself I could not change others." Author - Nelson Mandela, No winner
"Fate is determined by what one does, and what one doesn't do." Author - Ralph
Ellison, No winner
"If you are committed, you understand that you can't afford not to find the time.
You will not and cannot succeed in a vacuum." Author - George Fraser, Winner -
Sharon Lucas
"Whether you're a large business or a small one, you have to get others to
buy into your vision and its potential, and infect them with the desire to
succeed." Author - Robert Johnson, Winner - Leola Robinson
"If we do not do our duty now in laying the proper foundation for economic and
commercial growth, our children, and our children's children will suffer because of
our inactivity or shortness of vision. Author - Booker T. Washington, No winner
"It is better to be part of a great whole than be the whole of a small part."
Author - Frederick Douglass, Winner - Felicia Freeman
"My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself, I
love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others." Author - Madame CJ
Walker, Winner - Sharon Lucas
"If we do not do our duty now in laying the proper foundation for economic and
commercial growth, our children, and our children's children will suffer because of
our inactivity or shortness of vision." Author - Booker T. Washington, No winner
"Our purpose is to educate..." Author - Curtis Mayfield, Winner - Lynn Bishop
"I had a way of life inside me and I wanted it with a want that was twisting me."
Author - Zora Neale Hurston, Winner - Lynn Bishop
"...impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned." Author –
Charles Chestnutt, Winner – Felicia Freeman
"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things
you do the best." Author – Marva Collins, Winner – Felicia Freeman
"It doesn't really matter what happens at the beginning; it's where you end up.
And I think it's important that you know that today." Author – Spike Lee, No
winner
“My friends made fun of me...they thought it was foolish of me to anticipate
success in a field in which so many men before me had failed...but I went on
fighting the opposition of my adversaries and the indifference of my friends, and
I emerged victorious but battle-scarred." Author – Robert S. Abbott, Winner –
Lynn Bishop
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