“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” ~ Maya Angelou

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

"I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while." ~ R. A. Salvatore

"Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible." ~ Mary McLeod Bethune

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." ~ Melody Beattie

"At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division." ~ Jesse Jackson

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” ~ Shannon L. Alder

"History doesn't repeat itself. It often rhymes." ~ Mark Twain

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't let someone's opinion of you become your reality." ~ Les Brown

“You can be a character, or you can demonstrate character.” ~ Alford L. McMichael

"You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served." ~ Nina Simone

“My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past. I found that not only did I have fight in me, I had love.” ~ Viola Davis

“Have a vision of excellence, a dream of success, and work like hell.” ~ Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook

"To soar toward what's possible, you must leave behind what's comfortable." ~ Cicely Tyson

"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative." ~ James Baldwin

"Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach." ~ Phillis Wheatley

"I don't like to lose – at anything – yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks." ~ Serena Williams

“If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself.” ~ Gabrielle Union

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” ~ Booker T. Washington

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." ~ Maya Angelou

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” ~ Langston Hughes

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude." ~ Colin Powell

“Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” ~ Ella Fitzgerald

“Life has two rules: number 1, never quit! Number 2, always remember rule number one.” ~ Duke Ellington

"Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion, you’re wasting your life." ~ Jackie Robinson

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” ~ Harriet Tubman

“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” ~ Booker T. Washington

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." ~ Coretta Scott King

"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter." ~ James Earl Jones

"When they go low, we go high." ~ Michelle Obama

"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us." ~ Wilma Rudolph

"It's not about you or me, but it's about what we can give to this world." ~ Dr. Olivia Hooker

“Life is challenging, but I’m always up for a challenge.” ~ Venus Williams

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." ~ Rosa Parks

"Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself." ~ Walter Anderson

"Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way!" ~ Steve Maraboli

"That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals." ~ Peter Singer

"To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity." ~ Douglas Adams

"Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals." ~ Kallam Anji Reddy

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught." ~ J. C. Watts

"Our human compassion binds us to one another—not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future." ~ Nelson Mandela

"Apart from values and ethics, which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be." ~ Ratan Tata

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." ~ E. B. White

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." ~ Vince Lombardi

"Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart." - Basil Rathbone

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” ~ Thomas Edison