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11 Quotes Every Girl Needs To Hear

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Siena chapter.

We all have bad days, good days, mediocre days, awful days, tiring days and easy days. Here are 11 quotes to get you through the worst times, the doubts, the uncertainty, and times you just need a pick me up.  

1.  The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” 

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2. We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.”

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3. “A ship in a port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

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4. “You are braver than you believe, smarter than you seem, and stronger than you think.”

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5. “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

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6. Keep on going and chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.” 

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7. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”

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8. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

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9. “You have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

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10. If you don’t encounter setbacks in your career, if you don’t have doubts and disappointments, let me tell you, you’re not dreaming big enough.”

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11. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”

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*All photos are edited by the author using Font Candy for Apple and all quotes are from the Daily Quotes app for Apple*

Alyssa Guzman is a Siena College Class of 2021 alumna. During her time at Siena, she Double Majored in English and Communications Journalism with a minor in Writing and Communications.