A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
Every background is worth gold, and it’s worth telling.
What you take from the background of your parents and your family, becomes the foreground of your own reality.
Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.
I have a background in clowning.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
Background is everything.
The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.
Your background has a lot to do with how you view the world and your place in it.
Your background should not dictate your future.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Your background cannot be a limitation if it’s a foundation.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
I don't believe in luck. I believe in preparation.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.