Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell.

Amal Clooney

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

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You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.

Oprah Winfrey

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Don’t count the days, make the days count.

Muhammad Ali

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If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Dalai Lama

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The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

Steve Jobs

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Malala Yousafzai

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You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

George Lucas

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle

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Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.

Michelle Obama

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The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

Meryl Streep

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

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Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

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Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.

Beyoncé

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All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long.

Steven Spielberg

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When it comes to luck, you make your own.

Bruce Springsteen

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I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

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Be so good they can’t ignore you.

Steve Martin

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There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

Ronald Reagan

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Henry Ford

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We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

Amy Dickinson

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Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Nelson Mandela

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I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

Bill Gates

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A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Karen Lamb

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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

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Use your fear… it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

Amelia Earhart

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You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Deepak Chopra

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Earl Nightingale

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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.

Kurt Cobain

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A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.

Madonna

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One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

John F. Kennedy

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You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Taylor Swift

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

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When a tree grows be it ever so strong and large; it rots away gradually and down it goes at last, but through time another young tree shoots forth from there, and as it grows, it gathers beauty and strength.

Chief Peguis of the Saulteaux, Canada

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Embrace the glorious mess that you are.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Magic Johnson