“You get to know who you really are in a crisis.”

“When people show you who they are … believe them!”

“It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.”

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”

“One of the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.”

“Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are ignoring the owner’s manual your Creator gave you. What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. To be more splendid. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.”

“Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you, too, will keep encountering challenges. It is a blessing to be able to survive them, to be able to keep putting one foot in front of the other—to be in a position to make the climb up life’s mountain, knowing that the summit still lies ahead. And every experience is a valuable teacher.”

“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.”

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

“We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”

“We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.”

“Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.”

“Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.”

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

“Delay is preferable to error.”

“Everything yields to diligence.”

Live as a villain, die as a hero

“Don’t live to fight, fight to live.”

Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of iron or of gold.

“Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.”

“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”