317 Quotes About Inspiration and Motivation to Fuel Your Success

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Martin Luther King III

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

- Michael Jordan

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

- B. C. Forbes

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Carrie Fisher

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Viola Davis

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

- Bruce Lee

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

"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

"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

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Walt Disney

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Christopher Robin

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

- Elaine Welteroth

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

- 14th Dalai Lama

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Ray Goforth

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Audre Lorde

"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

"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

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

- Og Mandino

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

- Kevyn Aucoin

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Sylvester Stallone

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

- William James

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

- Deep Roy

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Lee Ann Womack

"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

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards."

- Bear Bryant

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

- Swami Sivananda

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Les Brown

"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

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Walt Disney Company

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

- Demi Lovato

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"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

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Dr. Mae Jemison

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

- Michael Altshuler

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

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

- William James

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Francis of Assisi

"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."

- Les Brown

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

- Alexander the Great

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

- Jim Rohn

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Angela Davis

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

- Jane Goodall

"When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Make yourself a priority once in a while. It's not selfish, it's necessary."

- Karen A. Baquiran

"Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative."

- Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

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

- Albert Einstein

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Willie Nelson

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."

- Jack Dempsey

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

- Tony Robbins

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

- Martin Luther

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

"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

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Rob Siltanen

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Sundar Pichai

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"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

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

- George Eliot

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it."

- Roy T. Bennett

"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."

- Jeff Bezos

"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."

- Debbi Fields

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Mother Teresa

"Never underestimate the investment you make in yourself."

- Jag Chima

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Andre Gide

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Walt Whitman

"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

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Les Brown

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Bill Bradley

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- William Osler

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

- Lewis Carroll

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

- Lao Tzu

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Ronald Reagan

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"

- Paul J. Meyer

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

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

- John Dewey

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Yvie Oddly

"If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is."

- Chad Sugg

"Life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you."

- Roy T. Bennett

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else."

- Sara Blakely

"If you're not a leader on the bench, don't call yourself a leader on the field. You're either a leader everywhere or nowhere."

- Abby Wambach

"The most important thing that you can do on this planet - elevate, transform and illumine your own consciousness."

- Carlos Santana

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

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

- Cicely Tyson

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Dolly Parton

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Kesha

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Winston Churchill

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Bill Clinton

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

- Reba McEntire

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Richard Evans

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."

- Buddha

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

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

- Vince Lombardi

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

- Henry David Thoreau

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

- Mikhail Gorbachev

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

- Shinzo Abe

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

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

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

- Vera Wang

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Deborah Day

"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

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Mae West

"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."

- Helen Hayes

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."

- Democritus

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

- Morgan Freeman

"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."

- Michael Jackson

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

- Robin Williams

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

- Loretta Lynn

"I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine."

- Andre Leon Talley

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Mother Theresa

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

- Hafez

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

- Truman Capote

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- Lupita Nyong'o

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

- Alice

"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 Berry

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

- John Barrymore

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."

- Cornel West

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain

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

- Elliot Page

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

- Bill Nye

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

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- E.E. Cummings

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

- Isaac Newton

"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."

- John Ruskin

"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

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Margaret Atwood

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

- Mark Twain

"The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply."

- Stephen R. Covey

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"What's meant to be will always find a way"

- Trisha Yearwood

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- James Caan

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Grace Kelly

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

- Saul Bellow

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."

- Abraham Maslow

"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."

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

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