"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
- Ferris Bueller
Change
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
- Winnie the Pooh
Positivity
"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."
- Reba McEntire
Motivation
"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already."
- Dave Barry
Happiness
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
- Mark Twain
Well-being
"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade, and try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."
- Ron White
Joy
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
- Elbert Hubbard
Happiness
"Whatever you do, always give 100% — unless you’re donating blood."
- Bill Murray
Motivation
"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it."
- Robin Williams
Creativity
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself."
- Ethel Barrymore
Personal Growth
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vince Lombardi
Well-being
"Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit."
- George Carlin
Well-being
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
- Douglas Adams
Well-being
"I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
- Rita Rudner
Love
"I told my doctor I broke my arm in two places. He told me to keep out of those places."
- Rodney Dangerfield
Well-being
"I’m in shape. Round is a shape."
- George Carlin
Fitness
"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Motivation
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
- Mark Twain
Success
"Some people see things that are and ask, ‘Why?’ Some people dream of things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’ Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that."
- George Carlin
Motivation
"If you can survive 11 days in cramped quarters with a friend and come out laughing, your friendship is the real deal."
- Oprah Winfrey
Relationships
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called everybody, and they meet at the bar."
- Drew Carey
Happiness
"When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun.'"
- Groucho Marx
Relationships
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
- Oprah Winfrey
Love
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
- Mark Twain
Compassion
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
- Charles Lamb
Well-being
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper."
- Quentin Crisp
Well-being
"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
- Bryan White
Personal Growth
"Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
- Mark Twain
Contentment
"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
- Zig Ziglar
New Beginnings
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
- Drew Carey
Happiness
"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."
- Katharine Hepburn
Adversity
"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
- Robert Frost
Hard Work
"Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise, we’re going down the tube."
- Joan Rivers
Happiness
"Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then, by all means, follow that path."
- Ellen DeGeneres
Ambition
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day."
- Robert Frost
Hard Work
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
- Mae West
Contentment
"True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway."
- Edna Buchanan
Relationships
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben
Well-being
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one!”"
- C.S. Lewis
Relationships
"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
- Linda Grayson
Relationships
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Relationships
"No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early."
- Groucho Marx
Motivation
"There are few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate."
- Barack Obama
Love
"Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in."
- Richard Jeni
Relationships
"If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved and never will achieve its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’"
- Dave Barry
Well-being
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment."
- Robert Benchley
Well-being
"If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it."
- W.C. Fields
Well-being
"Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
- Katharine Whitehorn
Goals
"Trying is the first step toward failure."
- Homer Simpson
Failure
"Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion."
- Tina Fey
Self-confidence
"Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring."
- Steve Maraboli
Motivation
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams
Time Management
"Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up."
- Ann Bradford
Self-care
"My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get."
- Forrest Gump
Wisdom
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
- Les Brown
Aspirations
"The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me."
- Ayn Rand
Ambition
"Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain."
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Courage
"Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost."
- Ellen DeGeneres
Independence
"Haters are just confused admirers because they can’t figure out the reason why everyone loves you."
- Jeffree Star
Self-esteem
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
Self-awareness
"A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad."
- Arnold H. Glasgow
Relationships
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing, that’s why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path."
- Ellen DeGeneres
Nature
"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."
- Kyle Chandler
Ambition
"A true friend is someone that thinks you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
- Bernard Meltzer
Relationships
"The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!"
- Marvin Phillips
Motivation
"If you don’t have wrinkles, you haven’t laughed enough."
- Phyllis Diller
Happiness
"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."
- Reba McEntire
Success
"If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock."
- Claude MacDonald
Hard Work
"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."
- Don Herold
Time Management
"Marriage: a friendship recognized by the police."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Love
"I never feel more alone than when I’m trying to put sunscreen on my back."
- Jimmy Kimmel
Well-being
"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs... one step at a time."
- Joe Girard
Success
"When you’re in love, it’s the most glorious two-and-a-half days of your life."
- Richard Lewis
Love
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’"
- Don Marquis
Well-being
"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"
- Lily Tomlin
Love
"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"
- Edward Bergen
Hard Work
"No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early."
- Groucho Marx
Awareness
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
- William James
Joy
"When I was growing up, I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
Well-being
"An office is a place to live life to the fullest, to the max. An office is a place where dreams come true."
- Michael Scott
Well-being
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
- Maya Angelou
Personal Growth
"Well-behaved women seldom make history."
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Empowerment
"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."
- Oscar Wilde
Well-being
"I learned a long time ago that worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere."
- Van Wilder, National Lampoon’s Van Wilder
Awareness
"Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping."
- Bo Derek
Happiness
"I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I’m around."
- Homer Simpson
Motivation
"Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe."
- Oprah Winfrey
Vision
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"The best revenge is massive success."
- Frank Sinatra
Success
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age."
- Lucille Ball
Contentment
"It ain’t over til it’s over."
- Yogi Berra
Perseverance
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
Optimism
"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'"
- Sydney J. Harris
Awareness
"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."
- Stephen Covey
Motivation
"A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain."
- Graham Norton
Awareness
"Be like a postage stamp; stick to one thing until you get there."
- Josh Billings
Determination
"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
- Mark Twain
Awareness
"Why, sometimes I’ve believed six impossible things before breakfast."
- Alice in Wonderland
Imagination
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Resilience
"I’m not crazy — I’ve just been in a very bad mood for 40 years."
- Ouiser Boudreaux
Well-being
"Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia."
- Charles Schulz
Optimism
"Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine."
- Lord Byron
Happiness
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
- Dolly Parton
Optimism
"Most of us don’t need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with."
- Robert Brault
Relationships
"By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me."
- Miranda Priestly
Well-being
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
- Henry Kissinger
Motivation
"What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."
- Phyllis Diller
Happiness
"The road to success is always under construction."
- Lily Tomlin
Success
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, some don’t turn up at all."
- Sam Ewing
Motivation
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he’s supposed to be doing at that moment."
- Robert Benchley
Awareness
"I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road."
- Stephen Hawking
Awareness
"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
- Sylvia Plath
Relationships
"‘Best friend’ isn’t a person—it’s a tier."
- Mindy Kaling
Relationships
"You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal."
- Elizabeth Taylor
Relationships
"Friendship is like money—easier made than kept."
- Samuel Butler
Relationships
"You can always tell a real friend: When you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job."
- Laurence J. Peter
Relationships
"You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it."
- Henry Youngman
Love
"Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache."
- Mae West
Love
"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Choice
"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."
- Michael Lopp
Resilience
"Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
- Tom Lehrer
Reflection
"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open."
- Frank Zappa
Awareness
"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back."
- Oscar Wilde
Wisdom
"Don’t be so humble — you are not that great."
- Golda Meir
Self-esteem
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes."
- Jack Handey
Compassion
"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book."
- Groucho Marx
Education
"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous."
- Robert Benchley
Personal Growth
"I am an early bird and a night owl... so I am wise and I have worms."
- Michael Scott
Balance
"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
- Fran Lebowitz
Awareness
"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."
- Margaret Thatcher
Leadership
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."
- Phyllis Diller
Family
"A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory."
- Mark Twain
Awareness
"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
- George Carlin
Self-awareness
"People can’t drive you crazy if you don’t give them the keys."
- Mike Bechtle
Well-being
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well."
- Mark Twain
Productivity
"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
- Benjamin Franklin
Learning from Mistakes
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."
- Will Rogers
Goals
"It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Efficiency
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito."
- Dalai Lama
Empowerment
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Wisdom
"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?"
- J. Paul Getty
Adaptation
"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"
- Steve Jobs
Creativity
"There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?"
- Kin Hubbard
Success
"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."
- TS Eliot
Success
"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Well-being
"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
- Rita Mae Brown
Well-being
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau
Goals
"It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view."
- Dalai Lama
Awareness
"The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Vision
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
- Elbert Hubbard
Optimism
"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers
Determination
"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."
- Philip K. Dick
Well-being
"If it’s a good script I’ll do it. And if it’s a bad script, and they pay me enough, I’ll do it."
- George Burns
Well-being
"When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you."
- Walter Payton
Well-being
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Well-being
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
- Douglas Adams
Well-being
"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."
- Bill Gates
Well-being
"It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
- William Faulkner
Well-being
"Be happy, it drives people crazy."
- Paulo Coelho
Happiness
"Aspire to inspire before we expire."
- Eugene Bell Jr.
Inspiration
"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, ‘I’m not going to make it’, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you’ve felt that way."
- Charles Bukowski
Happiness
"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."
- Vaclav Havel
Self-awareness
"When life brings big winds of change that almost blow you over, close your eyes, hang on tight, and believe."
- Lisa Lieberman-Wang
Courage
"Don’t let schooling interfere with your education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs…one step at a time."
- Joe Girard
Success
"Working hard is important. But there is something that matters more, believing yourself."
- Harry Potter
Belief in Self
"Do or do not. There is no try."
- Yoda
Determination
"Oh, yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it or learn from it."
- Rafiki
Growth
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
- George Burns
Family
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage
"A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright."
- Lucille Ball
Relationships
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
- Marilyn Monroe
Ambition
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
- Robert Frost
Awareness
"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."
- Benjamin Disraeli
Self-esteem
"You never become a howling success by just howling."
- Bob Harrington
Success
"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure."
- Joseph Heller
Failure
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Savielly Tartakower
Success
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
- Earl Wilson
Success
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
- Harold Geneen
Education
"Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues."
- David Ogilvy
Leadership
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell
Awareness
"I will always choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."
- Bill Gates
Efficiency
"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research."
- Steven Wright
Creativity
"There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting."
- David Letterman
Adaptation
"There’s an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."
- Peter Drucker
Adaptation
"Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties."
- Doug Larson
Ambition
"Lisa, if you don’t like your job you don’t strike. You just go in every day and do it half-assed. That’s the American way."
- Homer Simpson
Courage
"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some."
- Benjamin Franklin
Well-being
"Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns
Contentment
"If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style."
- Quentin Crisp
Failure
"Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment."
- Dilbert
Goals
"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
- Lewis Grizzard
Adaptation
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
- Aristotle
Awareness
"Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes."
- Henry Thoreau
Awareness
"If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative."
- Woody Allen
Courage
"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
- Abraham Maslow
Insight
"The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labour."
- Wernher von Braun
Insight
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."
- Franklin P. Jones
Awareness
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money."
- Louis Agassiz
Time Management
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."
- Dodgeball
Motivation
"Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious."
- Og Mandino
Positivity
"If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck."
- Elvis Presley
Self-awareness
"A peacock that rests on his tail feathers is just another turkey."
- Dolly Parton
Courage
"My mother always used to say, ‘The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana.’"
- Rose Nylund
Aspirations
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it."
- Mae West
Balance
"Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese."
- Billie Burke
Contentment
"I am an early bird and a night owl… so I am wise and I have worms."
- Michael Scott
Balance
"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Do you understand?"
- Captain Jack Sparrow
Awareness
"Live each day like it’s your second to the last. That way you can fall asleep at night."
- Jason Love
Contentment
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
Philosophy
"People waste their time pondering whether a glass is half empty or half full. Me, I just drink whatever’s in the glass."
- Sophia Petrillo
Well-being
"Sometimes you lie in bed at night and you don’t have a single thing to worry about. That always worries me!"
- Charlie Brown
Well-being
"Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.’"
- Steven Wright
Insight
"It is useless to try to hold a person to anything he says while he’s madly in love, drunk, or running for office."
- Shirley MacLaine
Relationships
"If you can’t be kind, at least be vague."
- Judith Martin
Compassion
"Bad decisions make good stories."
- Ellis Vidler
Reflection
"Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Compassion
"There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do."
- Amy Poehler
Boldness
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Joy
"I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened."
- Will Rogers
Hope
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt."
- Charles M. Schulz
Love
"When in doubt, look intelligent."
- Garrison Keillor
Well-being
"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."
- Erich Segal
Love
"Love is a two-way street constantly under construction."
- Carroll Bryant
Love
"After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are."
- Shrek
Self-esteem
"There comes a day when you’re gonna look around and realize happiness is where you are."
- Chief Tui
Happiness
"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
- Jules Renard
Love
"Doing nothing is very hard to do…you never know when you’re finished."
- Leslie Nielsen
Well-being
"Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it."
- Merida
Courage
"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby—awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."
- Lemony Snicket
Love
"The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing."
- Blaise Pascal
Love
"People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing."
- Will Rogers
Adversity
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished— If you’re alive it isn’t."
- Richard Bach
Awareness
"A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have."
- Roger Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Happiness
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
- Andy Rooney
Compassion
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
- Bill Watterson
Philosophy
"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
- Terry Pratchett
Creativity
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
- Terry Pratchett
Awareness
"It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not."
- Mignon McLaughlin
Relationships
"See the world like a big wardrobe. Everybody has his own costume. There is only one that fits you perfectly."
- George Harris
Self-awareness
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."
- Isaac Asimov
Morality
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
- William Somerset Maugham
Relationships
"Just keep swimming."
- Finding Nemo
Perseverance
"You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?"
- Steven Wright
Contentment
"Today is a good day to try."
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Motivation
"When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best — that is inspiration."
- Robert Bresson
Inspiration
"Well, nobody’s perfect."
- Some Like It Hot
Contentment
"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open."
- Frank Zappa
Awareness
"It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."
- Muhammad Ali
Well-being
"Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas."
- Paula Poundstone
Well-being
"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: You wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter."
- John Gotti
Well-being
"Right now, this is a job. If I advance any higher, this would be my career. And if this were my career, I’d have to throw myself in front of a train."
- The Office
Adversity
"The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What’s the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you’d get a pulse."
- Denise Miller
Courage
"Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could."
- Charles J. Sykes
Connection to Earth
"Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They’re about to announce the lottery numbers."
- Homer Simpson
Ambition
"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
- Pablo Picasso
Adaptation
"Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes."
- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Success
"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."
- Joseph Stilwell
Insight
"Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it."
- Andrew Young
Morality
"Kill them with success and bury them with a smile."
- Usain Bolt
Success
"Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well."
- Mark Twain
Well-being
"If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer."
- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Joy
"Please. Have mercy. I’ve been wearing the same underwear since Tuesday."
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Joy
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind."
Belief in Self
"You want to get out of the hole? First you’re going to have to put down the shovel."
Motivation
"Be that kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor every morning, the devil says, 'Oh crap she’s up'."
Empowerment
"Always remember that you are unique — just like everybody else."
Self-esteem
"Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop."
Growth
"We make mistakes because life doesn’t come with instructions."
Learning from Mistakes
"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."
Insight
"When life puts you in a tough situation, don’t say 'Why me?', say 'Try me'."
Courage
"Do not underestimate your abilities. That is your boss’s job."
Self-esteem
"Awesome things will happen today if you choose not to be a miserable cow."
Positivity
"A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure."
Success
"Failure is not an option-it comes bundled with the software."
Failure
"If at first you don’t succeed, try management."
Failure
"Sometimes the best part of my job is that the chair swivels."
Contentment
"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure."
Self-awareness