Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

You don’t have to hold yourself hostage to who you used to be.

When you’re down in the hole, when that moment comes, it’s really okay to feel bad for a little while — give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost — but, then, here’s the key: Learn from every mistake.

Every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more of who you are.

No matter what challenges or setbacks or disappointments you may encounter along the way, you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal — there really is only one, and that is this: To fulfill the highest, most truthful expression of yourself as a human being.

It doesn’t matter how far you might rise — at some point, you are bound to stumble. Because if you’re constantly doing what we do — raising the bar — if you’re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages predicts that you will, at some point, fall.

Remember this: There is no such thing as failure — failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”

“Where there is no struggle there is no strength.”

“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you – always.”

“Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.”

“I would like to thank the people who’ve brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.”

“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”

“You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.”

“If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.”

“In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.”

“We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.”

“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you, too, will keep encountering challenges. It is a blessing to be able to survive them, to be able to keep putting one foot in front of the other—to be in a position to make the climb up life’s mountain, knowing that the summit still lies ahead. And every experience is a valuable teacher.”

“Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are ignoring the owner’s manual your Creator gave you. What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. To be more splendid. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up.”

“One of the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.”

“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”

“It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.”

“When people show you who they are … believe them!”

“You get to know who you really are in a crisis.”

“If friends disappoint you over and over, that’s in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren’t going to change simply because you want them to.”

“True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

“I don’t believe in failure. It’s not failure if you enjoy the process.”

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

“You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

“Everyone is the keeper of a dream.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.”

“You’ve got to follow your passion. You’ve got to figure out what it is you love–who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.”

“The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance, and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.”

“I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.”

“All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It’s one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.”

“The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else’s dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.”

“Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.”

“Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it — and then reap the fruits of our labors.”

“I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.”

“Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.”

“You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.”

“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”

“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

“Don’t worry about being successful, but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”