W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

I think you grow through your experiences; you get better as you grow and I'm not nearly where I think I'm going to be eventually where I inspire to be and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

The American dream has always been about chasing opportunity and pursuing a brighter future for ourselves and our children.

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart - to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you.

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

If you have the ability and want it bad enough, do it!

I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.

If my dreams can happen to me, your dreams can happen to you. Champions are not made on the track or field; champions are made by the things you accomplish and the way you use your abilities in everyday life situations.

One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.