When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.” – Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” – Winston Churchill

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.” – Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.” – Winston Churchill

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” – Winston Churchill

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” – Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” – Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” – Winston Churchill

The most important thing about education is appetite.” – Winston Churchill

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.” – Winston Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.” – Winston Churchill

Good and great are seldom in the same man.” – Winston Churchill

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge

Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlockingour potential.” – Winston Churchill

4. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And, when you stumble, keep faith. And, when you’re knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.” ~Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Don’t let anyone speak for you, and don’t rely on others to fight for you.”~ Michelle Obama

“And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I’m betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.”
~Jessica Valenti,

“Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.”
~Rebecca Solnit, 

“It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.” ~ Taylor Swift

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” ~ Margaret Thatcher

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.” ~ C. JoyBell C.

“A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.” ~ Ellen J. Barrier

“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” ~ Melinda Gates

Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.” ~ John Wooden

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” ~ Pamela Vaull Starr

. “No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers.”  ~ Wolfgang Riebe

“Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.”  ~ Oprah Winfrey

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt

“Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.” ~ Alice Munro

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.“ ~ Mark Twain

“Bad decisions make good stories.” ~ Ellis Vidler