100+ Good and Inspiring Quotes to Motivate and Uplift Your Spirit

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- George Addair

"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

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- George Eliot

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

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

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Maya Angelou

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"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

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Nelson Mandela

"The 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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Thomas Edison

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Confucius

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

- Dolly Parton

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Deepak Chopra

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Bill Clinton

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

- Mae West

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"Employees aren't just workers, they're the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business."

- Kilroy J. Oldster

"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

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

- Cesar Chavez

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Carol Burnett

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"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

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

- Anne Frank

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Joseph Campbell

"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"I tell myself, 'You've been through so much, you've endured so much, time will allow me to heal, and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete, and mother I am today.'"

- Serena Williams

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures."

- Joelle Speranza

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

- Dolly Parton

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

"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. And if that takes a few years, then that's great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that's part of the process."

- Naomi Osaka

"We all have problems. But it's not what happens to us, the choices we make after."

- Elizabeth Smart

"You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender."

- Mariah Carey

"When we let fear be our master, we cannot be happy and free as a butterfly. But when we choose to trust the journey and embrace love and joy, we are free to fly."

- Annicken R. Day

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."

- Deepak Chopra

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"It ain't about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa

"We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We've gotta listen more and talk less. We've gotta know that this is everybody's responsibility."

- Meghan Rapinoe

"Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more."

- Aretha Franklin

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Muhammad Ali

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

- George Lucas

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

- Robert Hall

"It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."

- Mark Cuban

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work."

- Stephen King

"Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."

- Patrick Suskind

"Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."

- Haile Gebrselassie

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

- David Brinkley

"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

- Dale Carnegie

"Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Saint Francis

"When I meet successful people, I ask about 100 questions to find out who they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people."

- Kiana To

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others."

- Nathaniel Branden

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

"All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves."

- Jag Randhawa

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."

- Harvey Mackay

"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."

- Fred Allen

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

- Michael Jordan

"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."

- Angela Ahrendts

"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."

- Meghan M. Biro

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

"Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole."

- Tracy Streckenbach

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

- Arnold Glasow

"Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company."

- Zig Ziglar

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win."

- Emily Voyles

"It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together."

- Lloyd Dobens

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

- Brian Tracy

"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

- Paulo Coelho

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."

- Simon Sinek

"Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation."

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work—and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

- Lucille Ball

"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done."

- Robin S. Sharma

"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute."

- Simon Sinek

"Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job."

- Scott and Kelly Blanchard

"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."

- Eraldo Banovac

"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret."

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Albert Einstein

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that."

- Herb Kelleher

"People want to know they matter, and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract."

- Pamela Stroko

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways."

- Bob Nelson

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

- Douglas MacArthur

"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."

- Bob Nelson

"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’"

- Komil Toume

"If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work."

- Ari Weinzweig

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

- Maggie Kuhn

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

- Buddha

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

- Robert Byrne

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Vivian Greene

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Alexander the Great

"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

"I just want you to know that if you are out there and you are being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened ... it's normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please."

- Taylor Swift

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done."

- David Goggins

"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life."

- Carrie Ann Moss

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end."

- Michelle Obama

"Spread love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

- Robin Williams

"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

"Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness."

- Marie Forleo

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Awkwafina

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts today."

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"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

"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

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Geena Davis

"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

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Walter Anderson

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

- Diane McLaren

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Mister Rogers

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

- John Wooden

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

"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

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"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

"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

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Jesse Owens

"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

"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

"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 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

"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

"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

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"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

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- William Osler

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

- Virginia Woolf

"Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you."

- Beyoncé

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

- Rose Kennedy

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."

- Pete Cashmore

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Philip Appleman

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Rainbow Rowell

"The moral of my story is the sun always comes out after the storm. Being optimistic and surrounding yourself with positive loving people is for me, living life on the sunny side of the street."

- Janice Dean

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

- Lee Ann Womack

"Let love rule."

- Lenny Kravitz

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

- Toni Morrison

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Bruce Lee

"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

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Margaret Atwood

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Michael Altshuler

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

- Nicole Kidman

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action."

- Dr. Henry Link

"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

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."

- Dr. Phil

"We are not our best intentions. We are what we do."

- Amy Dickinson

"I've noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I'm grateful in the end."

- Colleen Hoover

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can’t put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?"

- Jennifer Lopez

"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on."

- Lady Gaga

"If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

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

- Mandy Hale

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there."

- George Harrison

"I'm going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn't promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It's the only thing I can help. If I didn't have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?"

- Hayley Williams

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."

- Michael Lopp

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Helen Keller

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Kesha

"I'm realizing how much I've diminished my own power. I'm not doing that no more."

- Alicia Keys

"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

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

- Cheryl Strayed

"The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift."

- L. A. Villafane

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

- Amy Poehler

"Don't be afraid. Because you're going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don't be afraid."

- Joan Jett

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

- Madonna

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

- Chinese Proverb

"We have to let go of who we think we should be and embrace what is."

- Achea Redd

"Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness."

- Selena Gomez

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

- Sir Francis Bacon

"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."

- Danny DeVito

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

- Deborah Day

"Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment."

- Marianne Cantwell

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen—that stillness becomes a radiance."

- Morgan Freeman

"I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential."

- Nicki Minaj

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

- Paulo Coelho

"I care about decency and humanity and kindness. Kindness today is an act of rebellion."

- Pink

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied."

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"Nobody built like you, you design yourself."

- Jay-Z

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

- Yvie Oddly

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

- Reba McEntire

"Work hard, know your s—t, show your s—t, and then feel entitled."

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

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

- Vernon Howard

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

"I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes."

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