Be a Lady, Be Independent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/best-ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-trnd/index.html.

Every Great Dream, Dreamer, Strength, Patience, Passion, Harriet Tubman

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” - Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, humanitarian

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 73.

Man of Success, Man of Value, Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” - Albert Einstein

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 88.

Start Painting, Raised Chickens, Grandma Moses

“If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.” - Grandma Moses

Found at Speaking of Art: Colorful Quotes by Famous Painters, edited by Bob Raczka, page 9.

Be Nice, Children, Rest Home, Phyllis Diller

“Be nice to your children, for they will choose your rest home.” - Phyllis Diller

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 23.

Nation, Made Strong, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"We are a nation made strong by people like you." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, To new citizens at a naturalization ceremony

Found on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/best-ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-trnd/index.html.

Defeat, Victory, Courage, Winston Churchill

“Defeat is never fatal. Victory is never final. It's courage that counts.” - Winston Churchill

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 12.

Middle Age, Anything New You Feel, Symptom, Laurence J. Peter

“Middle age is when anything new you feel is most likely to be a symptom.” - Laurence J. Peter

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 6.

Some Things You Learn, Calm, Storm, Willa Cather

“There are some things you learn best in calm, some in storm.” - Willa Cather, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, quoted as an epigraph to Kristin Hannah's novel Home Front

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 17.

Life, Short, What We Have To Do, Now, Audre Lorde

"Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now." - Audre Lorde

Found on Brainy Quote. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/audrelorde383487.html.

Enough, Women on the Supreme Court, When There are Nine, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough (women on the Supreme Court)?' and my answer is: 'When there are nine.' People are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/best-ruth-bader-ginsburg-quotes-trnd/index.html. RIP, RBG. A true hero and inspiration.

Draw, Sing, Pablo Picasso

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.” - Pablo Picasso

Found at Speaking of Art: Colorful Quotes by Famous Painters, edited by Bob Raczka, page 28.

Middle Age, Two Temptations, Get You Home Earlier, Dan Bennett

“Middle age is having a choice of two temptations and choosing the one that will get you home earlier.” - Dan Bennett

Found in Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older, Selected by Bruce Lansky, page 2.

Loneliness, Feeling of Being Unwanted, Poverty, Mother Teresa

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” - Mother Teresa

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 97.

What Would You Do, Spencer Johnson

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?” - Spencer Johnson, bestselling author of Who Moved My Cheese?

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 10.

Grow Older, Less Attention, What Men Say, Watch What They Do, Andrew Carnegie

“As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” - Andrew Carnegie

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 42.

Old Age, Sissies, Bette Davis

“Old age ain't no place for sissies.” - Bette Davis

Found in Women's Lip: Outrageous, Irreverent and Just Plain Hilarious Quotes, edited by Roz Warren, page 74.

Change the Terms, Drink That Water, Breathe That Air, Winona LaDuke

“You can change the terms, you can change the allowable limits, you can do the risk assessment – all these things – but in the end, the fact is that you and I drink that water. You and I breathe that air. You and I live here.” - Winona LaDuke

Found in The Sun, July 2018, pg.48, “Sunbeams”

Painting, Difficult, Wouldn't Be Fun, Edgar Degas

“If [painting] weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.” - Edgar Degas

Found at Speaking of Art: Colorful Quotes by Famous Painters, edited by Bob Raczka, page 15.

We're Going to Die, Do Something About It, Tom Burnett

“I know we're going to die. But some of us are going to do something about it.” - Tom Burnett, passenger on hijacked United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in a field near Shanksville, PA on September 11, 2001

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 15.

Tell a Lie Once, A Second Time, Thomas Jefferson

“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second time.” - Thomas Jefferson

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 39.T

History, Let It, Diane di Prima

"History repeats itself/only if we let it." - Diane di Prima

from "Revolutionary Letter #62," page 79, in Revolutionary Letters, by Diane di Prima.

Hardness of Heart, Softness of Head, Theodore Roosevelt

“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 11.

Three Things, Important, Be Kind, Henry James

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” - Henry James, author

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 32.

Line, Dot, Goes for a Walk, Paul Klee

“A line is a dot that goes for a walk.” - Paul Klee

Found at Speaking of Art: Colorful Quotes by Famous Painters, edited by Bob Raczka, page 4.

Life, Quotation, Jorge Luis Borges

“Life itself is a quotation.” - Jorge Luis Borges

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by F+W Media, Inc., page 5.

God is in the Slums, Cardboard Boxes, God is With Us, We Are With Them, Bono

“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.” ― Bono

Found on Goodreads at https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/56627.Bono.

You Project What You Are, Norman Vincent Peale

“It is a fact that you project what you are.” - Norman Vincent Peale

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 27.

Courage, Absence of Fear, Triumph Over It, Nelson Mandela

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, activist

Found in Quotes to Live By: Words That Inspire Those Who Inspire Us, by by F+W Media, Inc., page 9.

Best Prize, Work Hard, Theodore Roosevelt

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Found in Great Quotes from Great Leaders, by Peggy Anderson, page 10.