"Men don’t pay attention to small things."
- Katherine Johnson
Awareness
"There’s nothing to it; I was just doing my job."
- Katherine Johnson
Integrity
"I found that as long as I conducted myself with professionalism and proved my worth through my work, people would eventually ignore the barriers of race and gender."
- Katherine Johnson
Integrity
"You can change people’s perceptions by breaking barriers and proving them wrong with your accomplishments."
- Katherine Johnson
Courage
"I knew that I would have to face the obstacles and prejudices of being a black woman in a white, male-dominated field, but I was determined to prove myself."
- Katherine Johnson
Courage
"It is not what you look like on the outside, but what you are on the inside that counts."
- Beauty and the Beast
Belief
"It is the heart that makes a person beautiful, not the outward appearance."
- Beauty and the Beast
Belief
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
- Buddha
Belief
"It’s not always possible to do what we want to do, but it’s important to believe in something before you actually do it."
- Might Guy
Belief
"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
- Josephus Daniels
Belief