"There's no one that talks to you more than yourself."

"If you can dance and be free and not be embarassed, you can rule the world."

"It only takes ten years to make an overnight success."

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but, the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

"The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can't learn anything from being perfect."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

“Every day begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams of the future.”

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”

“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.”

“If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against all odds."

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

"A great demonstration is better than a long speech."

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

"There are no secrets to success.  It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure."

"Forget yesterday, live for today.  Tomorrow will take care of itself."

"Develop success from failures.  Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

"I never dreamed about success.  I worked for it."

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities.  Seize common occasions and make them great.  Weak (wo)men wait for opportunities; strong (wo)men make them."

"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."

"If you have to convince someone of the value you've provided them, you've already lost."

"Remember one thing through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.  So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out.  Keep your head up, and handle it."

"Strong women don't have 'attitudes', we have standards."

"If you're scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers."

"When the dogs bark at the moon, the moon is not brought down because of it."

"We all have our time machines.  Some take us back, they're called memories.  Some take us forward, they're called dreams."

"Be humble for you are made of earth.  Be noble for you are made of stars."

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more- then you are an excellent leader."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not."

“You can’t juggle it all 100 percent. You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to do everything.”

“Everything negative- pressure, challenges- is an opportunity for me to rise.

“My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding, and being lucky enough to finally get a shot."

"You don't have to be pretty.  You don't owe prettiness to anyone.  Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'."

"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down."

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return.  You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out."

"It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve.  The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

"Life isn't perfect.  Any failures you have are actually learning moments.  They teach us how to grow and evolve."

"To dare is to lose your foothold for a moment, to not dare is to lose  yourself."

“We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.”

“Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.”

"Do the things other's don't want to do."

“If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.”