Timeless Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Famous Inspirational Quotes

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Muhammad Ali

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Confucius

"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

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John R. Wooden

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- George Eliot

"The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will."

- W. Clement Stone

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do."

- Bob Proctor

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of only standing still."

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

"To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we have never done."

- Juan Casimiro

"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die tomorrow."

- James Dean

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslov

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

- Richard Evans

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

- Napoleon Hill

"So many fail because they don’t get started."

- W. Clement Stone

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Napoleon Hill

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up."

- Regina Brett

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

- Bernard M. Baruch

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

- William W. Purkey

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

- Mae West

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

- Robert Frost

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

- Mark Twain

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

- Elbert Hubbard

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Andre Gide

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

- Muhammad Ali

"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

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

- Epicurus

"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

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Henry Ford

"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

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

"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

"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

"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

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordo

"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

"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

"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

"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

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Rosa Parks

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Rob Siltanen

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Y. Davis

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Nelson Mandela

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Simone Biles

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Sundar Pichai

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

- Vera Wang

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Les Brown

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

- e.e. cummings

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal."

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- William James

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Willie Nelson

"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

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

- Anne Frank

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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

- The Dalai Lama

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Hafez

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

- Anais Nin

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

- Mae Jemison

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- Lupita Nyong'o

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

- Lewis Caroll

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Viola Davis

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

- Gabrielle Union

"When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

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

- Meghan Markle

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

- Shinzo Abe

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

- Cicely Tyson

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Deep Roy

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

- Nicole Kidman

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

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

- Herman Melville

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Olivia Newton John

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Oscar Wilde

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Elaine Welteroth

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

- Demi Lovato

"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

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Rick Warren

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Mother Theresa

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

- Kevin Ngo

"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."

- Friedrich Schiller

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Pema Chodron

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

- George Meredith

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Stephen Covey

"Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Steve Furtick

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

- Carl Sagan

"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

- Cindy Gallop

"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

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."

- Rita Mae Brown

"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

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!"

- T. D. Jakes

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present."

- B. Olatunji

"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

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

- Constance Wu

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

- J.K. Rowling

"Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend"

- Albert Camus

"The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be."

- Loesje

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."

- Michelangelo

"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

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

- Mark Twain

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .""

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

- Cicero

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

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

- Grace Kelly

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Anne Heche

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

- Amy Poehler

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

- Albert Einstein

"So many books, so little time."

- Frank Zappa

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- James Caan

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

"There is no such thing as failure, only feedback."

"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."

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