We All Need Words Of Wisdom
It's easy to feel discouraged by life—the challenges it throws our way and the uncertainty of the future. Sometimes all we need are words of wisdom. These iconic, inspirational quotes are just the ticket.
1. Rosa Parks
"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."
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2. Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
3. Aristotle
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
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4. Walt Whitman
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."
5. C.S. Lewis
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
6. Maya Angelou
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
7. Muhammad Ali
"Don’t count the days, make the days count."
8. Dr. Seuss
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.".
9. George Eliot
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
10. E.E. Cummings
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
11. Beyoncé
"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."
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12. Audrey Hepburn
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'"
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13. Walt Disney
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
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14. Toni Morrison
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
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15. Winston Churchill
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
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16. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
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17. Madam C.J. Walker
"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."
18. Truman Capote
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
19. Billie Jean King
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
20. Serena Williams
"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."
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21. Ella Fitzgerald
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
22. Eleanor Roosevelt
"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes."
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23. Nelson Mandela
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
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24. Oscar Wilde
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."
25. Jane Fonda
"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."
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26. Theodore Roosevelt
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
27. F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."
28. Oprah Winfrey
"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."
29. Anaïs Nin
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."
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30. Dolly Parton
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
31. Viola Davis
"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."
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32. Taylor Swift
"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."
33. Roxane Gay
"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."
34. Laverne Cox
"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."
35. Ella Baker
"Give light and people will find the way."
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36. Geena Davis
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
37. Mary Lou Retton
"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."
38. Carol Burnett
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
39. Alice Walker
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
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40. Michelle Obama
"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."
41. Bruce Springsteen
"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
42. Simone Biles
"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."
43. Lady Gaga
"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."
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44. Naomi Osaka
"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."
45. Gabrielle Union
"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."
46. Lucille Ball
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."
47. Bonnie Prudden
"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."
48. Amanda Gorman
"There is no better compass than compassion."
49. Duke Ellington
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
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50. Maggie Kuhn
"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind—even if your voice shakes."
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