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You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Marian Wright Edelman
Inspiring, Happiness, Success

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Marian Wright Edelman
Change, Inspiring, Peace

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Marian Wright Edelman
Inspiring, Meditation, Quiet
Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.61, Beacon Press

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Marian Wright Edelman
Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream
Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.29, Beacon Press

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Marian Wright Edelman
Inspiring, Perseverance, Work

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Marian Wright Edelman
Inspiring, Money, Work
Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.39, Beacon Press

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Marian Wright Edelman
Inspiring, Mothers Day, Father

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