K.A. Hill Quotes

Are you waiting for success to arrive, or are you going out to find where it is hiding?

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

Change your mental attitude, & the World around you will change accordingly

The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.

Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.

The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.

He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant.

Think black love, think universal love. Just think love.

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

Capability means imagination.

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.

You can always become the person you would have liked to be.

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.

To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

Live each day as if it were your last, and you’ll develop a keen respect for opportunity.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about

It was not war, it was murder.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

When I'm lying wrapped up in your arms, the whole world just fades away. The only thing I hear is the beating of your heart.

Time is of the essence and I don't have much essence left.

For me, self-care is a lesson I'm still learning. But it begins with space away from the heaviness of life. I now take time to play, laugh, and, every once in awhile, sleep.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.