J.J. Brown Quotes
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Most people chasing their dreams don't see the bigger picture, they just see the silhouette. Make the vision real!
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.
Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it.
Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.
A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.
Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.
Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
So please don't judge me and I won't judge you 'cause it could get ugly before it gets beautiful.
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.
I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.
Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.