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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“ Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. ”

- Unknown

“ An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ”

- William Bernbach

“ I don't think you can define love. ”

- Harry Styles

“ If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. ”

- Lisa Kleypas

“ Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end. ”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

“ Rise as a human being live as a legend work as a Messiah and you shall see the bright glorious change all around you. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ”

- Arthur Rubenstein

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Family where life begins & love never ends. ”

- Unknown

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ As a woman, you are always empowering others and helping people out of their situations. The time has come, and the time is now, for you to take charge of your own journey. It doesn’t matter how young or how old you are. It is time for you to freefall into giving yourself a chance at love, and the first person you should fall in love with is yourself. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

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

- Roy T. Bennett