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“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.”
Diane von Furstenberg, Fashion Designer
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“I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.”
Estée Lauder, Founder of the ‘Estée Lauder’
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“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
Amelia Earhart, Pilot
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“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”
Shonda Rhimes, Television Producer
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“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”
Erica Jong, Novelist and Poet
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“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
Dolly Parton, Singer
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“You can’t give up! If you give up, you’re like everybody else.”
Chris Evert, Tennis Player
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“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”
Madeleine Albright, American Politician and Diplomat
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“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”
Oprah Winfrey, Media Executive and Talk Show Host
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“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Jane Goodall, Anthropologist
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“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.”
Louise Hay, Author
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“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand, Writer and Philosopher
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“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
Audre Lorde, Writer
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“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Simone de Beauvoir, Writer and Philosopher
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“You can be the lead in your own life.”
Kerry Washington, Actress
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“Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down.”
Tory Johnson, Actress
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“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”
Brene Brown, Professor and Author
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“Everyone shines, given the right lighting.”
Susan Cain, Writer and Lectu
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“The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole.”
Jane Fonda, Actress
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“We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
J.K. Rowling, Author
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“Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they’re helping the company to be successful.”
Kirsten Gillibrand, Lawyer and Politician
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“It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.”
Emma Watson, Actress
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“Don’t live life in the past lane.”
Samantha Ettus, Author and Speaker
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“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”
Harper Lee, Novelist
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“It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.”
Taylor Swift, Singer
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin, Author
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“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.”
Sheila Murray Bethel, Speaker
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“Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is.”
Anne Frank, the Author of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’
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