Daily Inspiration: A Collection of Uplifting Quotes

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

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

- Walter Elliot

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

- Confucius

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Helen Keller

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

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

- Walt Disney

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."

- Pope John XXIII

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

- FDR

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

- Dalai Lama

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"No failure means no risk, which means nothing new."

- Richard Branson

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

- John F. Kennedy

"They can conquer who believe they can."

- Virgil

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

- Robert Schuller

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- George Herbert

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

- Epictetus

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

- William Blake

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

- Henry Ford

"There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return."

- Nelson Mandela

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I am not afraid... I was born to do this."

- Joan of Arc

"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast."

- Alfred A. Montapert

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

- C.S. Lewis

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

- Ayn Rand

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

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

- Gale Sayers

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

- Stephen Hawking

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Zig Ziglar

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

- St. Jerome

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Jim Rohn

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

- George Patton

"A will finds a way."

- Orison Swett Marden

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

- Aristotle

"No matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it."

- Ted Williams

"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

"Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you…. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way."

- Tim Ferriss

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

- George Addair

"The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple."

- Jack Dorsey

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Og Mandino

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship."

- Amy March

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Mark Cuban

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

- Dale Carnegie

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?"

- Caroline Myss

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

"What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner."

- James Dyson

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston S. Churchill

"Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life."

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."

- Araminta Ross (later known as Harriet Tubman)

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

- Aristotle

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"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

"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

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

- Robin Williams

"I’ll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done."

- Audie Murphy

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

- Leonard I. Sweet

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Les Brown

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"I’ve grown most not from victories but from setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us."

- Serena Williams

"Fear of looking stupid is the No. 1 killer of dreams. The worst part? The people who make you feel stupid are usually the ones least qualified to judge someone else’s life."

- Anthony Moore

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Viola Davis

"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Muhammad Ali

"The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves."

- Swami Vivekananda

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out."

- Randall Munroe

"The world you desire can be won. It exists... it is real... it is possible... it’s yours."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Bill Bradley

"Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask."

- Kate Winslet

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."

- Ida B. Wells

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

- Henry Ford

"Anything in life worth having is worth working for."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Paulo Coelho

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Drew Houston

"the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

"Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work."

- Margot Robbie

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If all I do in my life is soothe someone’s spirit with a song , then let me do that and I’m happy."

- Gladys Knight

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Bill Clinton

"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."

- David Bowie

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Success … is built on the foundation of courage, hard work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears."

- Susana Martinez

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Gautama Buddha

"If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach."

- Steve Wozniak

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity."

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

"Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage."

- Matt Damon

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you."

- Josephine Baker

"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."

- Wayne Dyer

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."

- Marcel Proust

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

- Robin Sharma

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

"You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky."

- Valentina Tereshkova

"I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true— hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it."

- Ray Bradbury

"You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up."

- Aaron Sorkin

"My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later."

- Douglas Preston

"I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps … I’m the first Simone Biles."

- Simone Biles

"Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet."

- Dr. Dre

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk."

- James Cash Penney

"You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough."

- Lionel Messi

"I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change."

- Reese Witherspoon

"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world."

- Archimedes

"This is not just a job. This is a passion. Connecting people, connecting the world, making a difference. How many jobs can say I made the world better today? We do that every single day."

- Ed Bastian

"Pressure is a privilege. It only comes to those who earn it."

- Billie Jean King

"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

"Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin."

- Grace Hansen

"You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect."

- Rosalind Brewer

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 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

"I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know."

- Harlan Sanders

"Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical."

- Howard Schultz

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

- Mae West

"Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day."

- Ray Lewis

"Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

- Richard L. Evans

"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 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

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."

- Michael Jordan

"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

"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

- Brian Tracy

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

- William Osler

"The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself."

- Meryl Streep

"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Alice Walker

"Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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

- Lewis Carroll

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from."

- Seth Godin

"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

"If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like."

- Steph Curry

"At the end of the day – the long day of your life – as people stand around your grave no one will talk about how big your house was, or how many cars you owned, or your boat or plane… they will only talk about ONE thing and ONE thing ONLY: LOVE!"

- John Spence

"God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."

- Mother Teresa

"The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."

- Eric Ries

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice."

- Terry Crews

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

- Peter Drucker

"The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible."

- Mike Horn

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

- Rosa Parks

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."

- William Morris

"I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Will Arnett

"Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose."

- Pele

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

"I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse."

- Walt Disney

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

- Dalai Lama

"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."

- Stephen R. Covey

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Ayn Rand

"Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul."

- Sir Terry Waite

"Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off."

- Kevin Hart

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t."

- Ricky Gervais

"If you do every job like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, that’s when you get noticed."

- Mary Barra

"The things that scare you only make you better and stronger."

- Octavia Spencer

"Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done."

- Charlie Kaufman

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

- James Clear

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Confucius

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

- Drew Houston

"If you can’t fail, you can never get better."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

"The best protection any woman can have … is courage."

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."

- Galileo Galilei

"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."

- Pope Benedict XVI

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

- Milton Berle

"Don’t let what you don’t know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you’re guaranteed to do them differently."

- Sara Blakely

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."

- Bell Hooks

"Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn."

- Satya Nadella

"If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."

- Lech Walesa

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

- Thomas Huxley

"It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant."

- Katarina Witt

"An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you."

- Indra Nooyi

"I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."

- Christian Bale

"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life— and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for."

- Jimmy Stewart

"It’s tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 a.m. when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas."

- Marvin Hagler

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

- Viktor E. Frankl

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

- May Sarton

"Sometimes you can only find heaven by slowly backing away from hell."

- Carrie Fisher

"Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like."

- Brian Chesky

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

- Herman Melville

"Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart."

- Quentin Tarantino

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

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

- Danny Boyle

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"You can’t be afraid of what people are going to say, because you’re never going to make everyone happy."

- Selena Gomez

"Waking up in truth is so much better than living in a lie."

- Idris Elba

"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."

- Diana Ross

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Jennifer Aniston

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

"When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."

- Josh James

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."

- Doug Larson

"Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can."

- Nicholas Sparks

"I’m intimidated by the fear of being average."

- Taylor Swift

"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Jennifer Lopez

"Great artists steal’ is … about finding inspiration in the work of others, then using it as a starting point for original creative output."

- Adam J. Kurtz

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Joseph Campbell

"Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."

- Ralph Abernathy

"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws?"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as a nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy."

- Mike Rowe

"Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking."

- General George S. Patton

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

- Olivia Newton John

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

- John F. Kennedy

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."

- Stephen Sondheim

"Reality is created by the mind; we can change our reality by changing our mind."

- Plato

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

- Mandy Hale

"Anyone with two tunics should share with him who has none."

- John the Baptist

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

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

- Dolly Parton

"The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time."

- Julia Child

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

- Andre Gide

"God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God’s love for us."

- Saint Peter

"What gets celebrated gets replicated."

- Bradley Cooper

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

- Virginia Woolf

"If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do."

- Jude Law

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

- Robert Frost

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

- Mark Twain

"If you focus on results you’ll never change. If you focus on change, you’ll get results."

- Jack Dixon

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- George Eliot

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

"An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better."

- Clayton Christensen

"It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say: If this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away."

- Douglas Englebart

"I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these 10 or 20 lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words."

- Joseph Pulitzer

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

- Deepak Chopra

"Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one."

- Ronald McNair

"The chief cause of failure is substituting what you want most for what you want now."

- Zig Ziglar

"If God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it!"

- Eleanor Hodgman Porter

"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"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

"It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you’d better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call."

- Jyoti Arora

"My soul is that of a drummer…. I didn’t do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life."

- Ringo Starr

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Dolly Parton

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."

- Ovid

"A lot of times, people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do."

- Chuck Norris

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you’re praying."

- Mason Cooley

"I have captured the light and arrested its flight. The sun itself shall draw my pictures."

- Louis Daguerre

"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I’m not saying I’m particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it."

- Kenny G

"I’m a big believer in the power of inexperience. It was the greatest asset I had when I started TFA. If I had known at the outset how hard it was going to be, I might never have started."

- Wendy Kopp

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity."

- Douglas MacArthur

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

- Douglas Adams

"So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."

- Caterina Fake

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long."

- Steven Spielberg

"It was the first evidence to me that we’d changed the world."

- John Shepherd-Barron

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

"The first step is clearly defining what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it."

- Halle Berry

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day."

- Willie Mays

"I hate that word: lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back."

- Herb Kelleher

"Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody’s job and don’t just settle."

- Michael B. Jordan

"I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish."

- Daniel Day-Lewis

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

- Vera Nazarian

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

- Lee Ann Womack

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"To be successful in life you must have a PLAN: PREPARE for the journey – LAUNCH into action – ADJUST as you go – NETWORK with those who know."

- Tom Morris

"The Seven Cs of Success: A clear CONCEPTION of what we want, a vivid vision, a goal clearly imagined."

- Tom Morris

"The Four Agreements: Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean."

- Miguel Ruiz

"Don’t Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you."

- Miguel Ruiz

"Don’t Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want."

- Miguel Ruiz

"Your messaging should convey, ‘Here’s why you would be so lucky if you got me,’ instead of ‘I really wanted it,’ which we all tend to do."

- Barbara Corcoran

"Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick."

- Miguel Ruiz

"Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

"The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape."

- Bono

"My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me."

- Michael K. Williams

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

- Reba McEntire

"Life always offers you a second chance. It is called tomorrow."

- Dylan Thomas

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

- Buddha

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

- Sun Tzu

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Paulo Coelho

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

- Alexander the Great

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

- Bob Marley

"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

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

"Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation."

- Isaac Newton

"We always honor our people when they die; we’ve got to honor them while we’re still alive."

- Biz Markie

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- William Bruce Cameron

"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- William Hazlitt

"Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace."

- Robert Goddard

"The Six Mistakes of Man: The illusion that personal gain is made up of crushing others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Before you speak, run this through your head: Is what I’m about to say true? Is it helpful? Is it inspiring? Is it necessary? Is it kind? If you cannot answer yes to these questions, then don’t say it, don’t tweet it, don’t write it."

- Beret Guidera

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth."

- Mike Tyson

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

- George Clooney

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

- St. Augustine

"You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works."

- Pope Francis

"The last 10 percent it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90 percent."

- Rob Kalin

"Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people."

- Joe Frazier

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do."

- John Holt

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

- Dalai Lama

"Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten — it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging."

- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

"Boredom is a lack of crazy. It’s a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you’re bored, blame yourself."

- Katelyn S. Irons

"Write this down, young man. Life has been extremely, I say extremely, kind."

- Margaret Gorman

"The biggest temptation is to settle for too little."

- Thomas Merton

"All medicine is like that. It came from someone who dared."

- Dr. William DeVries

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl

"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals."

- Brad Pitt

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

- African Proverb

"My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain."

- Charlie Chaplin

"It’s beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it’s well deserved."

- Jennifer Lawrence

"It seems to me that to be peaceful and content, you don’t have to know precisely what you want. It may even be better if you don’t. But I think you do need to be very clear what you DON’T want, and steadfast in the not-doing of those things."

- Sandra Boynton

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."

- Leo Buscaglia

"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."

- Colin Firth

"The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success."

- Kevin Kline

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

- Kesha

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

- Margaret Atwood

"We each come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and lucky breaks we can never fully understand."

- MacKenzie Scott

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

- Lady Gaga

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."

- Brad Meltzer

"Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken."

- Myrtle Aydelotte

"Business is built on relationships, relationships are built on trust, and the foundation of trust is honesty."

- Various

"If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling."

- Vince Gilligan

"There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: There are no rules."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text."

- Richard Rohr

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent."

- Bob Dylan

"Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."

- Ray Ozzie

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes."

- Sally Field

"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

- Cormac McCarthy

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."

- Michelangelo

"That’s the best part of the whole thing, is the people that we’ve met along the way. We’ve met some wonderful, wonderful people and we wouldn’t have otherwise."

- Pearl Dion

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want."

- Jason Sudeikis

"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."

- Nathaniel Branden

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

- Maya Angelou

"Your intent is for the future, but your attention is in the present."

- Deepak Chopra

"My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

- Charles Kettering

"God’s gift to us is more talent and ability than we’ll ever hope to use in our lifetime. Our gift to God is to develop as much of that talent and ability as we can in this lifetime."

- Steve Bow

"There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

- Wayne Dyer

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."

- Sophia Loren

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time."

- Vivek Naik

"I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it, and tomorrow as the moon sees it."

- Hannah Hoch

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'"

- Sydney J. Harris

"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends."

- Lyndon Johnson

"It’s a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers."

- Michael Che

"You are never too good for anything. Always be willing to do everything."

- Thomas Parkinson

"We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to, that’s part of your obligation."

- Bill Murray

"I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work."

- William Shatner

"To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at."

- Claude Monet

"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times."

- Mark Twain

"You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them."

- Keira Knightley

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."

- Michael Porter

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is an 80 percent friend, not a 20 percent enemy."

- President Reagan

"When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative."

- Chris Rock

"It’s easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do."

- Mark Ruffalo

"When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It’s simple: if you aren’t willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is."

- T. Harv Eker

"Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders."

- Senator Mitt Romney

"I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me."

- Eddie Vedder

"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."

- Stephen Hawking

"If you’re ever thinking, Oh, but I’m a waste of space and I’m a burden, remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don’t you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?"

- Maria Bamford

"If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert."

- Paulo Coelho

"Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out."

- Art Linkletter

"Next time you think you are important, try ordering somebody else’s dog around."

- Will Rogers

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

- Oscar Wilde

"This is it. This is life, the one you get."

- Jeff Barry

"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."

- Shigeru Miyamoto

"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."

- James Taylor

"To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts."

- Roger Ebert

"Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don’t want to in order to figure out what it is you’re supposed to do."

- Larry David

"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me."

- Diego Maradona

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end."

- Gilda Radner

"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."

- Louis Mann

"If you don’t manage your life, your life will manage you."

- St. C

"We don’t need to learn how to let things go; we just need to learn to recognize when they are already gone."

- Suzuki Roshi

"The first rule of holes: when you are in one, stop digging."

- Molly Ivins

"Bridge the age gap. For younger people, find a way to spend time with older people. For the more silver-haired among us, I’m telling you: Find a few things the young kids are into — music, tech, sports — and check them out."

- Mike Erwin

"The one thing you’re most reluctant to tell. That’s where the comedy is."

- Mike Birbiglia

"There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate, when a particular course of action just feels right. And, interestingly, I’ve discovered it’s in facing life’s most important decisions that intuition seems the most indispensable."

- Tim Cook

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

- H.G. Wells

"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."

- Sylvester Stallone

"I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."

- Joan Didion

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

- Lorne Michaels

"Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate."

- Kieran Culkin

"Being an optimist after you’ve got the very thing you want doesn’t count."

- Kin Hubbard

"You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs."

- Ruben Dario

"Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you."

- Mark Cuban

"I’ve got to give props to the Jesuit priests."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Memory is original events combined with every other time you’ve remembered that event. This is why therapy’s helpful."

- Becky Kennedy

"I will take the subway and look at certain women and think ‘God, that woman’s story will never be told. How come that lady doesn’t get a movie about her?’"

- Natasha Lyonne

"You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible."

- Larry Page

"Good luck has its storms."

- George Lucas

"It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart."

- Al Pacino

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

- George Carlin

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

- Euripides

"It was the ultimate dream. But the idea of a young black American like me owning a Cadillac? It seemed too far-fetched."

- Dick Gidron

"How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?"

- Satchel Paige

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

- Aristotle

"Think about me every now and then, old friend."

- John Lennon

"Get into what your kids are into. How miserable would it be to always be anti-popular stuff like ‘ughhhh you seriously like Taylor Swift?'"

- Joel Willis

"I was literally just doing my job."

- Stanislav Petrov

"You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows."

- Matt Drudge

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

- Isaac Asimov

"People have confused playing devil’s advocate with being intelligent."

- Cecily Strong

"One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks."

- George “Babe” Ruth

"God works a miracle!"

- William Bradford

"It’s a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering. There’s no escaping that."

- Stephen Colbert

"If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late."

- James Goldsmith

"Everyone you meet in life is fighting a battle you know nothing about."

- Unknown original

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

- Buddah

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"In life, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything."

"Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come."

"You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now."

"When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it’s probably time to change the people around you."

"Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you."

"Be happy. Be yourself. If others don’t like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn’t about pleasing everybody."

"No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs."

"You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there."

"Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around you, but rather what’s happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within."

"You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one."

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it."

"Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you."

"Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do."

"My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors."

"Until you can see, and admit, that YOU are the problem… You will be unable to realize that YOU must be the solution."

"All that you achieve and all that you fail to achieve are the direct results of your thoughts."

"We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves."

"People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves."

"People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are."

"What you do today determines who you will be tomorrow."

"The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything."

"Sometimes, it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

"A person cannot elevate themself by putting another person down."

"We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us."

"We see the world not as it is, but as we are."

"Vision = Focus / Focus = Attention / Attention = Action /Action = Results / Consistent Results = Destiny"

"Remember: everyone you meet is fighting a mighty battle. Be kind. Be understanding."

"Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with… will determine your life a decade from now."

"If you just help enough other people get what they need, you will get everything you need."

"When values are clear, decisions are easy."

"You become what you focus on and like the people you spend time with."

"What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while."

"If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future."

"There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go."

"When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself."

"Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had."

"Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you."

"When you’re up, your friends know who you are. When you’re down, you know who your friends are."

"Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old."

"Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you."

"Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It’s about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can."

"Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do."

"Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

"There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were."

"When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you."

"You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them."

"When Wealth is Lost, Nothing is Lost. When Health is Lost, Something is Lost. When Character is Lost, Everything is Lost."

"Knock, knock, knock, seek, seek, seek, ask, ask, ask until a door opens and welcomes you in."

"Allow your success and accomplishment become your inspiration."

"Storms don’t last forever; sometimes they make a mess of things, but there always appears those rays of hope that help you put your sails back up to keep moving on."

"People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said; BUT, they will always remember how you made them feel."

"If at first you don’t succeed, try something you’ve already been successful at and become masterful at it."

"You are the average of your five closest associates."

"Habits, good or bad, can always be traced back to your own thinking."

"Life is short, and the world is wide."

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got."

"To be interesting – be interested."

"Hope is NOT a strategy."

"If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you’re fooling yourself. That’s like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him."

"Sometimes people don’t notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them."

"Someone else doesn’t have to be wrong for you to be right."

"Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset."

"Your Day Is Your Life"

"The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy… it becomes simple, fair and easy."

"Be your own inspiration/epitome."

"People do what seems easy and convenient, not what is best for them."

"When someone tells you, “You’ve changed,” it might simply be because you’ve stopped living your life their way."

"One sometimes needs to take a step back in order to move forward."

"People are more what they hide than what they show."

"Worry. . . looks around. Sorry. . . looks back. Faith. . . . looks up."

"Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion; today is special."

"What somebody else thinks of me is none of my business."

"It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder."

"I live my life in direct proportion to the commitments I make and keep."

"Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone."

- Unknown

"Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money."

"True love isn’t about being inseparable; it’s about two people being true to each other even when they are separated."

"Happiness is an inside job."

- Anonymous

"While you’re busy looking for the perfect person, you’ll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy."

"Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is."

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."

- Unknown

"For small creatures such as we,"

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

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