Quotes of Cicely Tyson

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Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

- Cicely Tyson

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“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Relationships are like Rome difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt... that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soul mate, and your love. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Some people are not capable of loving you the way you need to be loved It might be wise to just wish them well and take care of yourself. ”

- Charles E Hudson

“ True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ”

- Erich Segal

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ He made me feel the infinite number of feelings, In which I lost myself. ”

- Luffina Lourduraj

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ When your only competition is becoming a better you, you will always win the game. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast