Greatness is largely a social ...

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.
Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.
 Mary McLeod Bethune

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Quotes from the same author

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.
 Mary McLeod Bethune
I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.
 Mary McLeod Bethune
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
 Mary McLeod Bethune
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
 Mary McLeod Bethune