Tommie Smith Quotes

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Success doesn't change you; fame does.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. And that's how I have to deal with it.

The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.

Put the dwarf within you to sleep.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

My approach to politics is that I never said I'm smart. But why aren't I allowed to write about my experience?

I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.

By the way, what have you done that's so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?

I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet.

After the birth of my first child, I believed in the things society said about how my body should look.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

After "Jammin' In New York", I went from a comedian who wrote his own material to a writer who performed his own material... I became socially conscious, and found I had something to say that wasn't too common.

Sometimes, if there are a lot of people around me when I go to a store, I feel a bit intimidated. I used to be shy. I still consider myself shy, but I'm a little better now and I'm getting used to it.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

A fixed mindset, creates a tendency to avoid challenges, to ignore useful negative feedback and leads such people to plateau early and not achieve their full potential.