“If they don’t give you a seat at the [negotiating] table, bring a folding chair.”
"That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free."
- Shirley Chisholm
Awareness
"In the end, anti-Black, anti-female and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism."
- Shirley Chisholm
Compassion
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
- Shirley Chisholm
Inspiration
"Don’t listen to those who say YOU CAN’T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN."
- Shirley Chisholm
Self-confidence
"Don't listen to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN."
- Shirley Chisholm
Self-confidence
"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."
- Tina Fey
Taking Risks
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Taking Risks
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."
Taking Risks
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
- Thomas Aquinas
Taking Risks