100 Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Passion and Drive

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"All our dreams can come true; if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up."

- Dwayne Johnson

"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

- Abraham Lincoln

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"It ain't about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

- Michelle Obama

"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

- Johnny Cash

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

- Maya Angelou

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"The time is always right to do what is right."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

"You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

"Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done."

- David Goggins

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end."

- Michelle Obama

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell."

- Amal Clooney

"I just want you to know that if you are out there and you are being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened ... it's normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please."

- Taylor Swift

"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life."

- Carrie Ann Moss

"Spread love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"I'm not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness."

- Marie Forleo

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

- Anne Frank

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I tell myself, 'You've been through so much, you've endured so much, time will allow me to heal, and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete, and mother I am today.'"

- Serena Williams

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one!"

- Dolly Parton

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you'll reach your goal. And if that takes a few years, then that's great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that's part of the process."

- Naomi Osaka

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steven Furtick

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordon

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

- Jeremiah 29:11

"Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."

- Deuteronomy 31:6

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."

- Proverbs 3:5-6

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

- Lamentations 3:22-23

"Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!"

- Psalm 34:8

"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

"So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."

- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you."

- Isaiah 26:3

"So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ."

- Galatians 3:26-27

"I can do all this through him who gives me strength."

- Philippians 4:13

"When I am afraid, I put my trust in you."

- Psalms 56:3

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

- Romans 15:13

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

- Romans 8:28

"but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

- Isaiah 40:31

"Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense ; he has become my salvation."

- Isaiah 12:2

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze."

- Isaiah 43:2

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

- Jeremiah 29:11

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

- Romans 8:38-39

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

- John 16:33

"Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”"

- Mark 10:27

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

- Matthew 11:28

"He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”"

- Matthew 17:20

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”"

- Joshua 1:9

"For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you."

- Isaiah 41:13

"What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"

- Romans 8:31

"The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe."

- Proverbs 18:10

"Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?”"

- Bible (John 11:25-26)

"Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him."

- Bible (Psalms 34:8)

"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging."

- Psalm 46:1-3

"Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

- Bible (Isaiah 40:28-31)

"And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them."

- 1 John 4:16

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends."

- Jesus

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts today."

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."

- Deepak Chopra

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

- Bell Hooks

"Self-care is how you take your power back."

- Lalah Delia

"When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, "What are you gonna do about it?" I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me."

- Beyonce

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"True abundance isn’t based on our net worth, it’s based on our self-worth."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot—it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."

- Maya Angelou

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"

- Dolly Parton

"Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver."

- Betty White

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yard stick to your success is how you treat other people."

- Barbara Bush

"Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own."

- Michelle Obama

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome."

- Fannie Flagg

"I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back."

- Ann Richards

"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love."

- Johnny Cash

"I don't go by the rule book…I lead from the heart, not the head."

- Princess Diana

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."

- Jackie Robinson

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

- William Faulkner

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

- Jackie Robinson

"Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass."

- Rebecca Wells

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

"Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody."

- Justin Cronin

"It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

- Walt Disney

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting."

- Walt Disney

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"All serious daring starts from within."

- Eudora Welty

"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try."

- Dolly Parton

"It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow."

- Ralph Ellison

"Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground."

- Rosa Parks

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

- Rosa Parks

"Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. That's the exciting part."

- Emeril Lagasse

"Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You're going to go through tough times—that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events."

- Joel Osteen

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."

- Beyoncé

"You have two choices in life; you can either like what you do or dislike what you do. I have chosen to like what I do."

- Barbara Bush

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."

- Billy Graham

"You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut."

- Dr. Seuss

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

- Ralph Ellison

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."

- Maya Angelou

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

- William Faulkner

"I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything."

- Frank Sinatra

"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t."

- Rikki Rogers

"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, and then succeed on purpose."

- G.K. Nielson

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought."

- Albert Einstein

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

"There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there — you must go beyond them."

- Bruce Lee

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

"Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you."

- Gabrielle Union

"I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom."

- Rosa Parks

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."

- Lindsey Vonn

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

"When we let fear be our master, we cannot be happy and free as a butterfly. But when we choose to trust the journey and embrace love and joy, we are free to fly."

- Annicken R. Day

"A dead-end street is a good place to turn around."

- Naomi Judd

"You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender."

- Mariah Carey

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."

- Dr. Phil

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

"How wild it was, to let it be."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."

- Etty Hillesum

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"Being happy never goes out of style."

- Lilly Pulitzer

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

- Forrest Gump

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."

- Helen Keller

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon."

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

"Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive."

- Jim Thompson

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."

- Reba McEntire

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more."

- Aretha Franklin

"We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We've gotta listen more and talk less. We've gotta know that this is everybody's responsibility."

- Megan Rapinoe

"I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential."

- Nicki Minaj

"Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there."

- Will Smith

"We all have problems. But it's not what happens to us, the choices we make after."

- Elizabeth Smart

"We need to take risks. We need to go broke. We need to prove them wrong, simply by not giving up."

- Awkwafina

"Don't be afraid. Because you're going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don't be afraid."

- Joan Jett

"We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon."

- Jimmy Carter

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

- Francis Bacon

"Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness."

- Selena Gomez

"The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day."

- Julia Roberts

"Now it's the little moments that stop me in my tracks, because that's what life is all about."

- Joanna Gaines

"We have to let go of who we think we should be and embrace what is."

- Achea Redd

"You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."

- Amy Poehler

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Nobody built like you, you design yourself."

- Jay-Z

"If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there."

- George Harrison

"Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"I care about decency and humanity and kindness. Kindness today is an act of rebellion."

- Pink

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

"I'm going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn't promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It's the only thing I can help. If I didn't have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?"

- Hayley Williams

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on."

- Lady Gaga

"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action."

- Dr. Henry Link

"The moral of my story is the sun always comes out after the storm. Being optimistic and surrounding yourself with positive loving people is for me, living life on the sunny side of the street."

- Janice Dean

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."

- Dave Carolan

"I'm realizing how much I've diminished my own power. I'm not doing that no more."

- Alicia Keys

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment."

- Marianne Cantwell

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can’t put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?"

- Jennifer Lopez

"Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

- Bruce Springsteen

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

"Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you."

- Beyoncé

"Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures."

- Joelle Speranza

"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."

- Jean-Francois Cope

"I've noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I'm grateful in the end."

- Colleen Hoover

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen—that stillness becomes a radiance."

- Morgan Freeman

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

"We are not our best intentions. We are what we do."

- Amy Dickinson

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."

- Mark Cuban

"These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up."

- Deuteronomy 6:6-7

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Work hard, know your s—t, show your s—t, and then feel entitled."

- Mindy Kaling

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"There's nothing more powerful than not giving a f—k."

- Amy Schumer

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity."

- Proverbs 17:17

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita von Teese

"Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor."

- Proverbs 21:21

"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"

- Kate Summers

"Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing."

- 1 Thessalonians 5:11

"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever."

- Psalms 107:1

"My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life."

- Bible (Psalms 119:50)

"One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple."

- Bible (Psalms 27:4)

"I love you, LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold."

- Bible (Psalms 18:1-2)

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God."

- 2 Corinthians 1:3–4

"The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I keep my eyes always on the LORD. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken."

- Bible (Psalms 16:6-8)

"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."

- Romans 12:12

"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

- Psalm 73:26

"The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore."

- Psalms 121:7-8

"May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed."

- Psalm 20:4

"“The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.”"

- Numbers 6:24-26

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."

- Bible (2 Corinthians 3:17)

"Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you."

- Ephesians 4:32

"For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."

- Bible (1 Corinthians 13:12)

"Even miracles take a little time."

- The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella

"The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph."

- Snoop Dogg

"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."

- Danny DeVito

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure."

- Brené Brown

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working."

- Henri Matisse

"Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

- E.E. Cummings

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

- Mary Lou Cook

"It takes 20 years to make an overnight success."

- Eddie Cantor

"We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person."

- Anne Heche

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

- Madonna

"Let love rule."

- Lenny Kravitz

"The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt."

- Sylvia Plath

"Fortune befriends the bold."

- Emily Dickinson

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift."

- L. A. Villafane

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

- Scott Adams

"Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers'."

- Amy Poehler

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

"It’s like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there."

- Josh Billings

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"The creative adult is the child who survived."

- Ursula Leguin

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

- Niels Bohr

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

- William Blake

"Creativity is a wild mind and disciplined eyes."

- Dorothy Parker

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

- Criss Jami

"Where people aren’t having fun, they seldom produce good work."

- David Ogilvy

"Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished."

- Leslie Nielsen

"The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished."

- Groucho Marx

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

- Oscar Wilde

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love."

"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be."

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

"Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life."

"A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure."

"Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too."

"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."

"A year from now you will wish you had started today."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."