I don’t measure America by ...

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
 Shirley Chisholm

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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

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.
 Shirley Chisholm
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.
 Shirley Chisholm
Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated to the limit of their ability will mean more for the future of the black and brown races from which they come than any number of neglected, hungry, ill-housed and ill-clothed youngsters. Pride in one's race, as will simple humanity, supports this view.
 Shirley Chisholm
To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.
 Shirley Chisholm
That's what's wrong with the country. There are too many 'good soldiers' accepting too many bad decisions.
 Shirley Chisholm