Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

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"It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."

- Mae Jemison

Personal Growth

"Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it."

- Mae Jemison

Personal Growth

"When God made the color purple, God was just showing off."

- Mae Jemison

Inspiration

"Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

- Mae Jemison

Motivation

"I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action."

- Mae Jemison

Creativity

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage