models

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

I believe in recovery and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.

When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

My heart is happy my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.

Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.

A good example is the best sermon.

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.