Expect victory and you make victory.

Become all that you are capable of becoming.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great achievements.

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.

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

If you are not riding the wave of change, you'll find yourself beneath it.

Always use the word impossible with the greatest caution.  —Werner Von Braun

We become successful by helping others become successful.

The time is always now.

If you refuse to accept anything but the very best you very often get it.

It only takes a single idea, a single action to move the world.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.  —Coco Chanel

...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe — but bored. Or you can care greatly, and live greatly — till life breaks you on its wheel.  —Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.  —Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.  —Martin Luther King, Jr.

We realize that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.  —Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible—we have it all, or we are not free.  —Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.  —Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe? Expediency asks the question, Is it politic? Vanity asks the question, Is it popular? But conscience asks the question, Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right.  —Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever does.  —Margaret Mead

The rights of every person are diminished when the rights of one are threatened.  —John F. Kennedy

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue. If we are ashamed of ourselves, how the hell can we expect the rest of the world not to be ashamed of us?  —Martina Navratilova

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'  —Shirley Chisholm

Your silence will not protect you.  —Audre Lorde

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.  —Norman Cousins

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.  —Golda Meir

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.  —Gloria Steinem

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.  —Gandhi

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.  —James Baldwin

Prejudices are most difficult to eradicate from the heart of those whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.  —Charlotte Bronte

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.  —Simone de Beauvoir

There is no essential sexuality. Maleness and femaleness are something we are dressed in.  —Naomi Wallace (US writer. The Times, 2 Aug 1994)

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.  —Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)

EQUALITY...is the thing. It is the only true and central premise from which constructive ideas can radiate freely and be operated without prejudice.  —Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968)

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, so to yield with life solves the insoluable: to yield, I have learned, is to come back again.  —Lao Tse

What is more fluid, more yielding than water? Yet back it comes again, wearing down the rigid strength which cannot yield to withstand it. So it is that the strong are overcome by the weak, the haughty by the humble.  —Lao Tse

I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  —Helen Keller