Success

Different people define success in different ways. Noteworthy blacks share nuggets of advice on success and what it takes to achieve it.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
Malcolm X

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
Malcolm X

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou

Success isn't something you chase. It is something you have to put forth the effort for constantly; then maybe it'll come when you least expect it.
Michael Jordan

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Leontyne Price

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
Marcus Garvey, An Appeal to the Conscience of the Black Race to S

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. Jesus said that we should not be judged by the bark we wear but by the fruit that we bear. Jesus said that we must measure greatness by how we treat the least of these.
Jesse Jackson, The Rainbow Coalition

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Michael Jordan

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
Oprah Winfrey