Jeff Napier > Quotes

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
― Jeff Napier, 291 Maya Angelou Quotes

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
― Jeff Napier, 291 Maya Angelou Quotes

“Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.”
― Jeff Napier, 291 Maya Angelou Quotes

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Jeff Napier, 291 Maya Angelou Quotes

“Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.”
― Jeff Napier, 291 Maya Angelou Quotes

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Jeff Napier, 291 Maya Angelou Quotes

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
― Jeff Napier, 291 Maya Angelou Quotes

“Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.”
― Jeff Napier, 291 Maya Angelou Quotes

“The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
― Jeff Napier, 291 Maya Angelou Quotes

“Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another”
― Jeff Napier, 291 Maya Angelou Quotes