Easy Inspirational Quotes: A Curated Collection to Uplift Your Spirit

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"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

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Maya Angelou

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Winston Churchill

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- George Addair

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- A.A. Milne

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times when one only remembers to turn on the light."

- J.K. Rowling

"I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. Not at the same time."

- Brene Brown

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

- Les Brown

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Helen Keller

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

"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

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- John Lennon

"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

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

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"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

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Lao Tzu

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Florence Nightingale

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"Be the best of whatever you are."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- A.A. Milne

"I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself."

- Beyoncé

"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"

- Bruce Lee

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Madam C.J Walker

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Ayn Rand

"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

"Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are."

- Stephanie LaHart

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Everything is within your power, and your power is within you."

- Janice Trachtman

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."

- Criss Jami

"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."

- Paulo Coelho

"There's power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there's grace in being willing to know and hear others."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Fannie Flagg

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"It’s important to think of what it means to powerfully and successfully rise to challenges, and all that it requires: determination, clarity, and steering clear of victim mentality."

- Emma R. Wilson

"Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible."

- Rodolfo Costa

"Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret."

- Richelle Goodrich

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie

"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

"You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice."

- Kerry Washington

"Do not fear failure. Dare to fail in order to find ways to succeed."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient."

- Daniel Kahneman

"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

"Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less."

- Steve Goodier

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

- Brandon Sanderson

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

"Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better."

- Melinda French Gates

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

- Helen Keller

"Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There’s only one you."

- Queen Latifah

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

- Les Brown

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

- Jimmy Dean

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"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

"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

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Paul Bryant

"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

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

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth 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

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Jane Goodall

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"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

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Audre Lorde

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

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

- Beyoncé

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Geena Davis

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Winston Churchill

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Vernon Howard

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

- Ayn Rand

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"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

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Reba McEntire

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

- Ray Goforth

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Steve Furtick

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

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

"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

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

- Toni Morrison

"Encouraging someone to be entirely themself is the loudest way to love them."

- Kalen Dion

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

- Charles Dickens

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

"The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

- William James

"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"

- Max Levchin

"Your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have. What you are will show in what you do."

- Thomas Davidson

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

- Jim Rohn

"You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat."

- Joel Osteen

"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

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

- Danny Boyle

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

- Constance Wu

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom."

- Roz Inga

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Rebecca Wells

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

- Warren Buffet

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

- Tricia Cunningham

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

- John Guare

"Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any."

- Danielle Fotopoulis

"Through discipline comes freedom."

- Aristotle

"Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning."

- S. C. Lourie

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"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

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

- Herman Melville

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Etty Hillesum

"And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."

- John Steinbeck

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

- Christopher McCandless

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Awkwafina

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

- Amal Clooney

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

"Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow."

- Chris Burkmenn

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

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

- Loretta Lynn

"Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Do anything, but let it produce joy."

- Walt Whitman

"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

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

- Hafez

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

- Cheryl Strayed

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

- Amy Poehler

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Let's be great."

- Terry Drake

"Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees."

- Sumi

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

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

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Do today what others won't and achieve tomorrow what others can't."

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

"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will."

"There’s no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

"Success is not the absence of failure, it’s persistence through failure."

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

"Positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

"If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

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

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

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

"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."

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

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

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

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

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