The challenges I have faced–among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother–are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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Helen Keller
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
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Shannon L. Alder
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people...
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Randy Pausch
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Seneca
Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome,
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E.a. Bucchianeri
More Quotes By Sonia Sotomayor
Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283
I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.
[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.
