The Greatest Inspirational Quotes of All Time: A Treasure Trove of Wisdom and Motivation

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve"

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere"

- Barack Obama

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Confucius

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Winston S. Churchill

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm"

- Winston S. Churchill

"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

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

- Confucius

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Henry Ford

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined"

- Henry David Thoreau

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Albert Einstein

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine"

- Roy T. Bennett

"Believe you can, and you’re halfway there"

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Les Brown

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started"

- John Wooden

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- George Addair

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Confucius

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Earl Nightingale

"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

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

- George Addair

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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 want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"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

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

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Mark Twain

"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

"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

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"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

"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

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Drew Houston

"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

"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

"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

"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

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin"

- Tony Robbins

"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing"

- Walt Disney

"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it"

- Jim Rohn

"Take action. An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention"

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity"

- Amelia Earhart

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Buddha

"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

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

- Vivian Greene

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing"

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Estee Lauder

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Peter Drucker

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

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

- George Addair

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- George Eliot

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

- Victor Hugo

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

- Walt Disney Company

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

- Oscar Wilde

"Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it’s possible for you"

- Jack Canfield

"I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your dreams"

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Henry Ford

"Magic is believing in yourself; if you can do that, you can make anything happen"

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking"

- Brian Tracy

"All our dreams will come true if we have the courage to pursue them"

- Walt Disney

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

- Dr. Henry Link

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears"

- Les Brown

"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear"

- Rosa Parks

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new"

- Socrates

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Rob Siltanen

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"If you look really closely, most overnight successes took a long time"

- Steve Jobs

"When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful"

- Eric Thomas

"People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy"

- Tony Robbins

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure"

- Colin Powell

"Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all we can be"

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Nothing is impossible, the world itself says, ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Confucius

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

- Mark Twain

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle"

- Steve Jobs

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

- George Eliot

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life"

- Steve Jobs

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken"

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Aristotle

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

- Walt Whitman

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty"

- Winston Churchill

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Mother Teresa

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy"

- Dalai Lama

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

- Bob Marley

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Walt Whitman

"I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

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

- Audre Lorde

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Helen Keller

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

- John Lennon

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Bill Bradley

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Bill Clinton

"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

"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

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart"

- Helen Keller

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Things work out the best for those who make the best of how things work out"

- John Wooden

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Jack Canfield

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try"

- Beverly Sills

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"It’s during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light"

- Aristotle

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time"

- Don Zimmer

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

- John Wooden

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Ayn Rand

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is"

- Vince Lombardi

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples"

- Mother Teresa

"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- W.P. Kinsella

"Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it."

- Brain Tracy

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals"

- Michelle Obama

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Hasidic Proverb

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

- Charles Kettering

"Go the extra mile, there’s no-one on it"

- Grant Cardone

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Khalil Gibran

"No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others"

- Cicero

"If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough"

- Oprah Winfrey

"Creativity is intelligence having fun"

- Albert Einstein

"If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans"

- John Lennon

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

- Mae West

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all"

- Helen Keller

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

- Charles Swindoll

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life"

- John Wooden

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on"

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too"

- Anne Frank

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

- Vernon Howard

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Jennifer Aniston

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale"

- Hans Christian Anderson

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

- Lee Ann Womack

"First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end"

- Aristotle

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

- Bob Marley

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

- Margaret Fuller

"I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"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

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Cicero

"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

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Duke Ellington

"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

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"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

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- William Osler

"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

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

- Frank Herbert

"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

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

- Robert Byrne

"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

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

- Lady Gaga

"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

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Rose Kennedy

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Mae West

"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

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Michelle Obama

"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

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

- Anne Frank

"If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient"

- Gurbaksh Chahal

"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

"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

"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

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Bonnie Prudden

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Mark Twain

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

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

- Herman Melville

"You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine"

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Danny Boyle

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom"

- Vincent van Gogh

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

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

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Colin R. Davis

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success"

- James Cameron

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Develop an ‘Attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you"

- Brain Tracy

"I think goals should never be easy; they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time"

- Michael Phelps

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

- John Guare

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Life is never fair. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not"

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Max Levchin

"Great men are not born great, they grow great."

- Don Vito Corleone

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

- Lolly Daskal

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

- William Hazlitt

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities"

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Nicole Kidman

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved"

- D. H. Lawrence

"You have to be odd to be number one"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Reba McEntire

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."

- Francois Rabelais

"Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?"

- Brian Tracy

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are… it is our choices."

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

- Gandalf

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Halle Bailey

"We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future"

- Robin Sharma

"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get."

- Forrest Gump

"A bad attitude is like a flat tire; if you don’t change it, you won’t go anywhere"

- Joyce Meyer

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

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

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

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

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

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

"Dream big and dare to fail"

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character"