“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”— Jennifer Lopez, huffingtonpost.com
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”— Audre Lorde, quotes-friendship.com
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”— Ayn Rand, huffingtonpost.com
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.com
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”— Madeleine Albright, feminist.com
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”— Shonda Rhimes, yourtango.com
“I was 20 years old. Attending a catholic college where I was playing basketball for, no joke, the Lady Monks. As often as she could my girlfriend would drive three hours to pick me up and drive me back to her house for the weekend. I was so in love and so desperate to see her, but as soon as I’d get…”— Andrea Gibson, facebook.com
“Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time--affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage,…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“The most transformative and resilient leaders that I’ve worked with over the course of my career have three things in common: First, they recognize the central role that relationships and story play in culture and strategy, and they stay curious about their own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. Sec…”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, ‘Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again’—my gut reaction is, ‘What a badass.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time. Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage t…”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Courage is a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads”— Erica Jong, books.google.com
“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com