In every position that I’ve been in, there have been naysayers who don’t believe I’m qualified or who don’t believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

Sonia Sotomayor

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Steve Jobs

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

Barack Obama

You don’t choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think.

Grace Lee Boggs

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

Sheryl Sandberg

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

George Takei

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

Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.

Shonda Rimes