1. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” – Billie Jean King
2. “It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.” – Emma Watson
3. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg
4. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – Golda Meir
5. “Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.” – Beyoncé Knowles Carter
6. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” – Malala Yousafzai
7. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
8. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.” – Estée Lauder
9. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” – Helen Keller
10. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” – Leymah Gbowee
11. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
12. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
13. “The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran
14. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes
15. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball
16. “Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.” – Edith Wharton
17. “Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
18. “I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes.” – B. Smith
19. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
20. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton
21. “The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole.” – Jane Fonda
22. “No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.” – Martha Beck
23. “When you’re through changing, you’re through.” – Martha Stewart
24. “Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.” – Bette Midler
25. “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” – Rachel Zoe
26. “Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.” – Diane Sawyer
27. “I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said.” – Thuli Madonsela
28. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey
29. “I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.” – Hoda Kotb
30. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn
31. “I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion.” – Ellen DeGeneres
32. “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” – Harper Lee
33. “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg
34. “One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” – Ruth Reichl
35. “One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism.” – Eva Peron
36. “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
37. “I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.” – Condoleezza Rice
38. “A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.” – Angela Merkel
39. “You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” – Katie Couric
40. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
41. “Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down.” – Tory Johnson
42. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
43. “Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.” – Jodie Foster
44. “I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
45. “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” –Mia Hamm
46. “When I’m hungry, I eat. When I’m thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.” – Madonna
47. “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.” – Brené Brown
48. “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” – Arianna Huffington
49. “I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone.” – Tory Burch
50. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel
