“It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.”

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up.”

“I hope that in this year to come you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you're doing something.”

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”

“Don't let the expectations and opinions of others affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters to you and what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let other people's ideas limit who you are. If you let them tell you who you are, you will be living their reality, not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people or following someone else's prescribed path. Decide who you are for yourself. Become whole. Choose adventure.”

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“Resist much, obey little.”

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”

“You do not write your life with words. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists... it is real... it is possible... it's yours.”

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”

“If you're reading this...”

“"You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That's what scares you most."”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“Hold fast to dreams.”

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible!'”

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“Promise Yourself.”

“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 one who'll decide where to go.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“Have you ever noticed how 'what the hell' is always the right decision to make?”

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do?”

“If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”