“I stood right up there and I said I’m going to Nashville, and Im gonna be a star. Well, the whole place laughed out loud.” ~ Dolly Parton

“I knew that even if I fell flat on my face, at least I would know that I tried.” ~ Dolly Parton

“Persist no matter what.” ~ Mary Kay

“Nobody ever makes it without hard work” ~ Dolly Parton

“From this moment on, every voice that told you, you can’t, is silenced. Every reason that tells you things will never change, disappears. The person you were before this moment, that person’s turn is over. Now it’s YOUR turn!” ~ Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank, Freedom Writers)

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“You gave me all those struggles growing up to make me stronger.” ~ Lizzie Velasquez

“How can I do better, how can I be better?” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“Nothing works unless you do.” ~ Mary Kay

“I did what I had to do because it was the right thing to do.” ~ Miep Gies (Pat Carroll, Freedom Writers)

“When you take time to look back at what the other guy is doing, you lose focus, you lose energy and you lose power. Just focus on yourself.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“We are all ordinary people, but even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can within their own small ways turn on a small light, in a dark room.” ~ Miep Gies (Pat Carroll, Freedom Writers)

 

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