100+ Cool Inspiring Quotes to Ignite Your Passion and Drive

"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

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

- Earl Nightingale

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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."

- Ariana Huffington

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- George Addair

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Maya Angelou

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."

- Chantal Sutherland

"You can do anything you set your mind to."

- Eminem

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

- Walt Disney

"You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

"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

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

- Robert Schuller

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Maya Angelou

"Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions."

- The Dalai Lama

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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

- A.A. Milne

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."

- Anne Frank

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Walt Disney

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Amanda Gorman

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Walt Whitman

"Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams."

- Brad Sugars

"Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else."

- Vince Lombardi

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you."

- Barack Obama

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Zig Ziglar

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

- Nelson Mandela

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Thomas Edison

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."

- Jim Rohn

"Motivation comes from working on things we care about."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

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

- Robin Williams

"Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you."

- Frank Ocean

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before."

- Albert Einstein

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

- George R.R. Martin

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

- Mark Twain

"To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world."

- Chinese Proverb

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The greatest weapon against stress is the ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

"It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone."

- Hans F. Hansen

"One thing’s for sure, if you don’t play, you don’t win."

- Kylie Francis

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

- Michael Jordan

"When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do."

- Nicki Minaj

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

- Billie Jean King

"Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding, nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result."

- Joe Torre

"Motivation may be what starts you off, but it’s habit that keeps you going back for more."

- Miya Yamanouchi

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Michael Altshuler

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

- Mikhail Gorbachev

"In the long run, you make your own luck — good, bad, or indifferent."

- Loretta Lynn

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

- Mae Jemison

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Marie Curie

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

- Helen Keller

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"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."

- Naomi Osaka

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Alexander the Great

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before."

- Shinzo Abe

"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."

- Cicely Tyson

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

"Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

- Willie Nelson

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

- Mark Cuban

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

- Herman Melville

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."

- Elaine Welteroth

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

- Mother Theresa

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."

- Grace Kelly

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you."

- Lupita Nyong'o

"It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Caroll

"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"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

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Lindsey Vonn

"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

"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

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- E.E. Cummings

"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

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

- Anne Heche

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Dr. Seuss

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"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

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be happy with what you have while working for what you want."

- Helen Keller

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

- Frank Sinatra

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

- John Wooden

"It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been."

- George Eliot

"Trust yourself that you can do it and get it."

- Baz Luhrmann

"You never know what you can do until you try."

- William Cobbett

"Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did."

- Mark Twain

"I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself."

- Albert Einstein

"If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change."

- Tony Gaskins

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

- Rumi

"I can and I will. Watch me."

- Carrie Green

"The only thing standing in the way between you and your goal is the BS story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"What is life without a little risk?"

- J.K. Rowling

"Only do what your heart tells you."

- Princess Diana

"If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."

- Grace Hopper

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do."

- Marianne Williamson

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

- Paulo Coelho

"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."

- Judy Garland

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

- Richard Branson

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

- Geena Davis

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Carol Burnett

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Bruce Springsteen

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."

- Simone Biles

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

- Truman Capote

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."

- Taylor Swift

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

- Michelle Obama

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."

- Lady Gaga

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."

- Gabrielle Union

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."

- Oprah Winfrey

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

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

- Estée Lauder

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Jane Goodall

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

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

- Aristotle

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

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

- George Eliot

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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 Gordo

"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

"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

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"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

"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

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- George Eliot

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Steve Furtick

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Leymah Gbowee

"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

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Dita Von Teese

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"I didn’t learn to be quiet when I had an opinion. The reason they knew who I was is because I told them."

- Ursula Burns

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

- W.P. Kinsella

"I’m still learning."

- Michelangelo

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."

- Buddha

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

- Drew Houston

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'"

- James Caan

"Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking."

- Lee Ann Womack

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"All we can do is the best we can do."

- David Axelrod

"The world is full of nice people. If you can’t find one, be one."

- Nishan Panwar

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

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

- Babe Ruth

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

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

- Lily Tomlin

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."

- Jim Henson

"Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it. Sauté it. Whatever. MAKE."

- Joss Whedon

"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore."

- Michele Ruiz

"You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

"I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’"

- Leah Busque

"Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

"There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life."

- Philip Appleman

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."

- Anne Frank

"So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow."

- Rainbow Rowell

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

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

- Oscar Wilde

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

- Robert Byrne

"Only the paranoid survive."

- Andy Grove

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers."

- Socrates

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

- William Osler

"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

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

- Mae West

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."

- Dr. Seuss

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

- Albert Einstein

"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Vera Wang

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- e.e. cummings

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

- Dolly Parton

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

- Oscar Wilde

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

- Neil Gaiman

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."

- Francois Rabelais

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

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

- Reba McEntire

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Carroll

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

- William Hazlitt

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

- Paulo Coelho

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

"Revenge is a powerful motivator."

- Marcus Luttrell

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

- Danny Boyle

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

- Shel Silverstein

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

"We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

- Elie Wiesel

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."

- Bill Keane

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

- Maya Angelou

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

- J.K. Rowling

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want."

- Kevin Ngo

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

- Stephen Chbosky

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

- C.S. Lewis

"no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

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

"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined."

"Never stop learning because life never stops teaching."

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for."

- Unknown

"Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done."

"If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room."

"What is coming is better than what is gone."

- Unknown

"Don’t tell people about your dreams. Show them your dreams."

"Never regret a day in your life. Good days bring you happiness and bad days give you experience."

"It might not be easy, but it’ll be worth it."

"Make your fear of losing your greatest motivator."

"Take the risk or lose the chance."

"I will not erase all my hard work this week because it’s the weekend."

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