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You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.

Sonia Sotomayor

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.
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Build Community Discover Stand Strength Wall Yourself
There are uses to adversity, and they don’t reveal themselves until tested. Whether it’s serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.
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Adversity Difficult Expectation Limitation Reveal Serious Sick Simplicity Strength
My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.
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Judiciary Law Myself Philosophy
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will – undoubtedly – fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I’m just not going to let this get me down.
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Doubt Failure Hurt Live Myself
The President Barack Obama had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.
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Advice Myself President Process
The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
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Fire Forever Myself
If I write a book where all I’ve ever experienced is success, people won’t take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
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Book Environment Experience Failure Myself People Success Work Writing
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
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Blessing Face Myself Native Perseverance
I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.
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Decision God Image Justice Myself People Reality Reputation
A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
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Confidence Effort
My diabetes is such a central part of my life… it did teach me discipline, it also taught me about moderation. I’ve trained myself to be super-vigilant because I feel better when I am in control.
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Better Control Discipline Feeling Life Myself Sick Teaching Training
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.
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Break Carry Fight Live Myself Process Result System
Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
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Failure Fear Greatness Reward Success Teacher
We have to look and ensure that we’re paying attention to what we’re doing, so that we don’t reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.
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Attention Institution Pay People Procedure Thinking
Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
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Choice Experience Judgement Personal See
You can’t dream unless you know what the possibilities are.
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Dreams Possible Yourself

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