"Hope means hope when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all." — G.K. Chesterton
"The person who is small enough to be content, and great enough to be discontented, is the ideal human being." — G.K. Chesterton
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." — G.K. Chesterton
"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." — G.K. Chesterton
"An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." — G.K. Chesterton
"Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind." — G.K. Chesterton
"A dead thing can go along with the current, but only a living thing can go against it." — G.K. Chesterton
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people." — G.K. Chesterton
"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul." — G.K. Chesterton
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." — G.K. Chesterton
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more." — Oprah Winfrey
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." — Oprah Winfrey
"Turn your wounds into wisdom." — Oprah Winfrey
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness." — Oprah Winfrey
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"Whatever you choose to do, leave tracks." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders." — Sheryl Sandberg
"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." — Madonna
"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them." — Shonda Rhimes
"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." — Nora Ephron
"A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." — Coco Chanel
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." — Anna Quindlen
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." — Elinor Smith