"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"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
Love
"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
- George Addair
Facing Fears
"I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself."
- Beyoncé
Belief in Self
"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."
- Wayne Dyer
Personal Growth
"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
- Bruce Lee
Adaptation
"Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off."
- Kevin Hart
Hard Work
"Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
- Steve Jobs
New Beginnings
"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 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
Failure
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach."
- Steve Wozniak
Motivation
"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."
- David Bowie
Ambition
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
- Marie Curie
Perseverance
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Taking Risks
"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
Empowerment
"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
Empowerment
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Facing Fears
"Don’t count the days, make the days count."
- Muhammad Ali
Time Management
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
- Nelson Mandela
Courage
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
- Dale Carnegie
Success
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Resilience
"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
Persistence
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."
- Martha Graham
Creativity
"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Reflection
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"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
Ambition
"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."
- Colin R. Davis
Success
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau
Success
"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
Compassion
"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
Success
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."
- Tobias Lütke
Empowerment
"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost
Philosophy
"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."
- Oprah Winfrey
Learning from Mistakes
"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."
- Marilyn Monroe
Happiness
"Be persistent and never give up hope."
- George Lucas
Perseverance
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
- Charles Kettering
Belief
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."
- John Barrymore
Happiness
"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."
- Mandy Hale
Mindfulness
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’"
- Audrey Hepburn
Aspirations
"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."
- Annette Funicello
Contentment
"The best way out is through."
- Robert Frost
Overcoming Obstacles
"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
- John D. Rockefeller
Change
"Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right."
- Henry Ford
Belief
"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."
- Bob Marley
Happiness
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief in Self
"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
Taking Risks
"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
Motivation
"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."
- Olivia Newton John
Facing Fears
"Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare."
- Audre Lorde
Taking Risks
"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
Hard Work
"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."
- Malala Yousafzai
Future
"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Aspirations
"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
- Robert Brault
Contentment
"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."
- Leonard I. Sweet
Vision
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
- Malcolm X
Success
"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."
- Alice Walker
Empowerment
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."
- Wayne Gretzky
Taking Risks
"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."
- Oprah Winfrey
Independence
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell
New Beginnings
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
Generosity
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
- Nikki Giovanni
Learning from Mistakes
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
- Lao Tzu
Transformation
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
- Jim Rohn
Taking Risks
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."
- Les Brown
Empowerment
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Reflection
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
- Helen Keller
Education
"We become what we think about most of the time."
- Earl Nightingale
Belief in Self
"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."
- Drew Barrymore
Growth
"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."
- Helen Keller
Ambition
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
- Charles Kettering
Future
"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."
- John Lennon
Awareness
"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."
- Khalil Gibran
Reflection
"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."
- Jon Bon Jovi
Success
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
- Alexander Graham Bell
Success
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
- Bill Bradley
Success
"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."
- Jennifer Aniston
Reflection
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
- Henry Ford
Teamwork
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
- Margaret Fuller
Learning
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"
- Seth Godin
Ambition
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."
- Paulo Coelho
Success
"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
- Bill Gates
Learning from Mistakes
"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
- Jane Goodall
Compassion
"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Empowerment
"A lot of times, people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do."
- Chuck Norris
Optimism
"I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."
- Christian Bale
Courage
"Success … is built on the foundation of courage, hard work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears."
- Susana Martinez
Success
"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life — and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."
- Georgia O’Keeffe
Bravery
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
- African Proverb
Overcoming Obstacles
"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Success
"I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for."
- Jimmy Stewart
Self-confidence
"There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate, when a particular course of action just feels right. And, interestingly, I’ve discovered it’s in facing life’s most important decisions that intuition seems the most indispensable."
- Tim Cook
Insight
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Service
"There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity."
- Douglas MacArthur
Optimism
"Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work."
- Margot Robbie
Hard Work
"When we are no longer able to change a situation — we are challenged to change ourselves."
- Viktor E. Frankl
Adaptation
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
- Booker T. Washington
Compassion
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
- Dalai Lama
Empowerment
"We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that."
- David Goggins
Growth
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."
- Maya Angelou
Courage
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
Inspiration
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
- Arianna Huffington
Personal Growth
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
- Henry Ford
Failure
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius
Resilience
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer
Inspiration
"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
Motivation
"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
Learning from Mistakes
"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
- Wayne Dyer
Inner Peace
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe
Motivation
"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."
- George Addair
Facing Fears
"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."
- Ayn Rand
Ambition
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."
- Drew Houston
Motivation
"Ideation without execution is delusion."
- Robin Sharma
Creativity
"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."
- Laird Hamilton
Self-awareness
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Success
"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."
- Raymond Joseph Teller
Creativity
"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."
- Paul Bryant
Success
"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
Mindfulness
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."
- Earl Nightingale
Aspirations
"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."
- Mark Twain
Personal Growth
"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."
- Bruce Lee
Awareness
"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
Persistence
"The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost
Resilience
"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
Adversity
"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
Leadership
"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."
- Ruth Gordo
Courage
"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
Time Management
"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Choice
"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."
- Louise Hay
Personal Growth
"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."
- Sonia Sotomayor
Empowerment
"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."
- Jennifer Lopez
Self-awareness
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."
- Mia Hamm
Taking Risks
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
- E.E. Cummings
Courage
"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."
- Beyoncé
Belief in Self
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'"
- Audrey Hepburn
Ambition
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"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
Independence
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
- Winston Churchill
Positivity
"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."
- Rosa Parks
Change
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."
- Madam C.J. Walker
Ambition
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
- Billie Jean King
Achievement
"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."
- Serena Williams
Courage
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
- Aristotle
Hope
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."
- Anaïs Nin
Courage
"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
Inspiration
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
- Maya Angelou
Compassion
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Transformation
"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."
- Viola Davis
Aspirations
"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
Love
"Give light and people will find the way."
- Ella Baker
Empowerment
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."
- Geena Davis
Taking Risks
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett
Aspirations
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
- Truman Capote
Failure
"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."
- Taylor Swift
Resilience
"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."
- Michelle Obama
Self-awareness
"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."
- Lady Gaga
Self-esteem
"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."
- Mary Lou Retton
Positivity
"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."
- Naomi Osaka
Determination
"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."
- Gabrielle Union
Self-care
"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
Self-awareness
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
- Duke Ellington
Motivation
"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."
- Roxane Gay
Leadership
"There is no better compass than compassion."
- Amanda Gorman
Compassion
"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."
- Maggie Kuhn
Courage
"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
Self-awareness
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Resilience
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
- Alice Walker
Empowerment
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."
- Lucille Ball
Self-care
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost
Resilience
"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Happiness
"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."
- Deepak Chopra
Ambition
"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
Self-awareness
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
- Viktor Frankl
Overcoming Obstacles
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill
Motivation
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
- Og Mandino
Hard Work
"Get busy living or get busy dying."
- Stephen King
Determination
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Courage
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
Reflection
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
- Vernon Sanders Law
Learning from Mistakes
"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."
- Tony Robbins
Goals
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
- Alexander Graham Bell
Focus
"Either you run the day or the day runs you."
- Jim Rohn
Time Management
"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Hard Work
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
- Tony Robbins
Goals
"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."
- Cindy Gallop
Empowerment
"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."
- Arlan Hamilton
Empowerment
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."
- Oprah Winfrey
Empowerment
"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."
- Lady Gaga
Empowerment
"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."
- Roseanne Barr
Empowerment
"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
- Shirley Chisholm
Empowerment
"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."
- Malala Yousafzai
Empowerment
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
- Margaret Thatcher
Empowerment
"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Empowerment
"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
Empowerment
"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."
- Confucius
Strength
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
Success
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."
- Confucius Kongzi
Learning from Mistakes
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
- Dale Carnegie
Learning from Mistakes
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
- W.B. Yeats
Education
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."
- Winston Churchill
Optimism
"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."
- Bo Jackson
Goals
"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."
- Mia Hamm
Success
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill
Determination
"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."
- Jim Rohn
Motivation
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey
Creativity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"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
Courage
"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
Personal Growth
"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
Liberation
"So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."
- Caterina Fake
Focus
"I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish."
- Daniel Day-Lewis
Learning from Mistakes
"I hate that word: lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work."
- Peter Dinklage
Hard Work
"Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet"
- Dr. Dre
Resilience
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
- Pablo Picasso
Inspiration
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."
- Louis Pasteur
Determination
"Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose."
- Pele
Resilience
"The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible"
- Mike Horn
Motivation
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic."
- Peter Drucker
Adaptation
"Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice."
- Terry Crews
Self-confidence
"Be so good they can’t ignore you."
- Steve Martin
Achievement
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King
Awareness
"The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."
- Eric Ries
Learning
"God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."
- Mother Teresa
Motivation
"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from."
- Seth Godin
Happiness
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Courage
"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."
- Drew Houston
Success
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
- Vernon Sanders Law
Learning
"Dream big and dare to fail."
- Norman Vaughan
Aspirations
"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
Taking Risks
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."
- Babe Ruth
Courage
"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."
- Bill Clinton
Learning from Mistakes
"Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking."
- Lee Ann Womack
Taking Risks
"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
- Paulo Coelho
Awareness
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy
"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
Compassion
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
- Mae West
Contentment
"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
Ambition
"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
Aspirations
"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
Courage
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
- Bruce Lee
Time Management
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
- William Osler
Contribution
"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."
- Buddha
Presence
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne
Philosophy
"Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments."
- Rose Kennedy
Contentment
"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."
- Lewis Carroll
Compassion
"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."
- Stephanie Bennet Henry
Courage
"There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Love
"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
Philosophy
"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."
- Anne Frank
Compassion
"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
Positivity
"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."
- Vivian Greene
Resilience
"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
Hope
"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
Philosophy
"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."
- Frank Herbert
Philosophy
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
- Oscar Wilde
Self-care
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"If you can’t fail, you can never get better."
- Benedict Cumberbatch
Failure
"The best protection any woman can have … is courage."
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Courage
"You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."
- Galileo Galilei
Transformation
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
- G.K. Chesterton
Faith
"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."
- Pope Benedict XVI
Ambition
"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle
Ambition
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
- Charles Darwin
Change
"You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you."
- Josephine Baker
Courage
"Don’t let what you don’t know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you’re guaranteed to do them differently."
- Sara Blakely
Taking Risks
"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life."
- Robin S. Sharma
Inspiration
"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."
- Marcel Proust
Taking Risks
"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."
- Sylvester Stalone
Self-awareness
"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."
- Estée Lauder
Success
"Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one."
- Ronald McNair
Aspirations
"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."
- bell hooks
Integrity
"Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage"
- Matt Damon
Courage
"Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn."
- Satya Nadella
Learning
"The chief cause of failure is substituting what you want most for what you want now."
- Zig Ziglar
Self-improvement
"If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already."
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Learning
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership
"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."
- Tom Hanks
Motivation
"Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity."
- Nicole Kidman
Learning from Mistakes
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."
- Kahlil Gibran
Aspirations
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
- Benjamin Franklin
Hard Work
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
- Gautama Buddha
Happiness
"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."
- Mario Andretti
Ambition
"An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you."
- Indra Nooyi
Self-confidence
"It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day."
- Willie Mays
Persistence
"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."
- Vince Lombardi
Ambition
"The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself."
- Meryl Streep
Self-confidence
"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."
- Brian Tracy
Optimism
"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Ambition
"[T]he world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape."
- Bono
Empowerment
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world."
- Oscar Wilde
Aspirations
"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."
- Michael Jordan
Determination
"Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
- Richard L. Evans
Motivation
"Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day."
- Ray Lewis
Persistence
"Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical."
- Howard Schultz
Taking Risks
"I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know."
- Harlan Sanders
Determination
"Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth."
- Mike Tyson
Resilience
"Before you speak, run this through your head: Is what I’m about to say true? Is it helpful? Is it inspiring? Is it necessary? Is it kind? If you cannot answer yes to these questions, then don’t say it, don’t tweet it, don’t write it."
- Beret Guidera
Integrity
"You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect."
- Rosalind Brewer
Empowerment
"Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin."
- Grace Hansen
New Beginnings
"Pressure is a privilege. It only comes to those who earn it."
- Billie Jean King
Motivation
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."
- Louis L’Amour
New Beginnings
"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."
- Bob Marley
Love
"Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk."
- James Cash Penney
Success
"You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up."
- Aaron Sorkin
Resilience
"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
Hard Work
"Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference."
- Denzel Washington
Contribution
"It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes."
- Warren Buffett
Learning
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."
- William Wallace
Awareness
"I feel like if it’s not scaring you, you’re doing it wrong."
- Anna Kendrick
Taking Risks
"You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe."
- Oprah Winfrey
Belief
"Life always offers you a second chance. It is called tomorrow."
- Dylan Thomas
New Beginnings
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Joy
"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."
- Alexander Hamilton
Hard Work
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude
"Someone once said, ‘Adversity introduces a man to himself.’ For some reason, that’s scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger."
- Max Cleland
Adversity
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."
- Hank Aaron
Perseverance
"Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life."
- Tyler Perry
Hard Work
"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive, and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream."
- Tommy Hilfiger
Success
"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."
- Conan O’Brien
Optimism
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
- St. Augustine
Spirituality
"If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like."
- Steph Curry
Resilience
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
- Augustine Og Mandino
Learning
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
- Anaïs Nin
Change
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Success
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Vision
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Change
"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
- Vince Lombardi
Success
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."
- Walt Disney
Determination
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
Optimism
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."
- Michael Jordan
Teamwork
"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
- Vince Lombardi
Teamwork
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
- Andrew Carnegie
Teamwork
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
- Henry Ford
Teamwork
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller
Teamwork
"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."
- Dalai Lama
Positivity
"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."
- Chris Grosser
Optimism
"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Family
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
New Beginnings
"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."
- Les Brown
Self-esteem
"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."
- Mark Cuban
Positivity
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen R. Covey
Belief in Self
"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."
- John Wooden
Hard Work
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Determination
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
- William James
Change
"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."
- Lucille Ball
Reflection
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Taking Risks
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."
- Marcus Aurelius
Gratitude
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."
- Wayne Dyer
Motivation
"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."
- Germany Kent
Motivation
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
- Zig Ziglar
Service
"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."
- Pablo Picasso
Motivation
"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."
- Angela Bassett
Determination
"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."
- Cormac McCarthy
Hope
"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."
- Dr. Seuss
New Beginnings
"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."
- Ovid
Perseverance
"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."
- Carl Sagan
Love
"Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like."
- Brian Chesky
Success
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results."
- Willie Nelson
Motivation
"Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart."
- Quentin Tarantino
Originality
"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."
- Nathaniel Branden
Self-esteem
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
- Frederick Douglass
Resilience
"You can’t be afraid of what people are going to say, because you’re never going to make everyone happy."
- Selena Gomez
Self-confidence
"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."
- Diana Ross
Vision
"Anything in life worth having is worth working for."
- Andrew Carnegie
Hard Work
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Edith Wharton
Compassion
"When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."
- Josh James
Creativity
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
Change
"Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask."
- Kate Winslet
Motivation
"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might."
- Henry David Thoreau
Determination
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
- Marcus Aurelius
Awareness
"Fear of looking stupid is the No. 1 killer of dreams. The worst part? The people who make you feel stupid are usually the ones least qualified to judge someone else’s life."
- Anthony Moore
Overcoming Obstacles
"I’ve grown most not from victories but from setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us."
- Serena Williams
Growth
"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."
- Charles Swindoll
Mindfulness
"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws?"
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Relationships
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
- Judy Garland
Self-improvement
"The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves."
- Swami Vivekananda
Belief in Self
"If you look around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room."
- Lorne Michaels
Learning
"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."
- Michelangelo
Hard Work
"If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do."
- Jude Law
Self-improvement
"I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship."
- Amy March
Resilience
"Freedom lies in being bold."
- Robert Frost
Courage
"If you focus on results you’ll never change. If you focus on change, you’ll get results."
- Jack Dixon
Change
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell
Optimism
"The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple."
- Jack Dorsey
Motivation
"It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say: If this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away."
- Douglas Englebart
Inspiration
"Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you…. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way."
- Tim Ferriss
Motivation
"Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."
- George Clooney
Reflection
"Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it."
- Ted Williams
Perseverance
"There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return."
- Nelson Mandela
Generosity
"No failure means no risk, which means nothing new"
- Richard Branson
Taking Risks
"I’m a big believer in the power of inexperience. It was the greatest asset I had when I started TFA. If I had known at the outset how hard it was going to be, I might never have started."
- Wendy Kopp
Motivation
"The big money is not in the buying and selling … but in the waiting."
- Charlie Munger
Wisdom
"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."
- James Taylor
Philosophy
"One man with courage makes a majority."
- Andrew Jackson
Courage
"There is no perfection, only life."
- Milan Kundera
Philosophy
"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."
- Francois Rabelais
Aspirations
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
- William Hazlitt
Balance
"Business is built on relationships, relationships are built on trust, and the foundation of trust is honesty."
- Various
Relationships
"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."
- Brad Meltzer
Self-awareness
"Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart."
- Michael Ende
Philosophy
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
Contentment
"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."
- W. P. Kinsella
Happiness
"I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."
- Ralph Abernathy
Faith
"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."
- Jessica Ennis
Belief in Self
"St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it."
- Alan Paton
Contribution
"We pass through this world but once."
- Stephen Jay Gould
Awareness
"Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want."
- Jason Sudeikis
Gratitude
"Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace."
- Robert Goddard
Vision
"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."
- Lech Walesa
Courage
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
- Margaret Fuller
Education
"There is no element of genius without some form of madness."
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Originality
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- William Bruce Cameron
Philosophy
"Women must learn to play the game as men do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Empowerment
"Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation"
- Isaac Newton
Motivation
"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."
- Albert Camus
Awareness
"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."
- Colin Firth
Integrity
"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."
- Diane Von Furstenberg
Empowerment
"Sometimes you can only find heaven by slowly backing away from hell."
- Carrie Fisher
Hope
"Someday is not a day of the week."
- Janet Dailey
Time Management
"It’s easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do."
- Mark Ruffalo
Self-awareness
"Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don’t want to in order to figure out what it is you’re supposed to do."
- Larry David
Personal Growth
"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."
- Leo Buscaglia
Strength
"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you’re praying."
- Mason Cooley
Faith
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."
- Charlie Munger
Wisdom
"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."
- Tina Fey
Taking Risks
"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."
- Melissa McCarthy
Determination
"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."
- Vera Nazarian
Inspiration
"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."
- David Hurley
Respect
"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."
- Yulia Tymoshenko
Empowerment
"Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it."
- Salvador Dali
Perseverance
"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes."
- Sally Field
Self-awareness
"All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long."
- Steven Spielberg
Creativity
"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."
- Joe Girard
Success
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end."
- Gilda Radner
Reflection
"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times."
- Mark Twain
Persistence
"You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them."
- Keira Knightley
Originality
"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."
- Michael Porter
Focus
"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."
- Patrick Lencioni
Teamwork
"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."
- Jean-Francois Cope
Teamwork
"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."
- Stephen Hawking
Originality
"I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."
- Will Arnett
Gratitude
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
- William Morris
Happiness
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."
- Vincent van Gogh
Inspiration
"Boredom is a lack of crazy. It’s a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you’re bored, blame yourself."
- Katelyn S. Irons
Creativity
"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."
- Henry Ward Beecher
Adversity
"To scale, do things that don’t scale."
- Reid Hoffman
Productivity
"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."
- Edmond Mbiaka
Motivation
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from."
- Jodie Foster
Originality
"My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later."
- Douglas Preston
Hard Work
"Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand."
- Ada Lovelace
Knowledge
"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"
- David Dweck
New Beginnings
"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."
- Chuck Palahniuk
Personal Growth
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
- Dale Carnegie
Happiness
"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."
- Byron Pulsifer
Happiness
"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."
- Catherine Pulsifer
Balance
"My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me."
- Michael K. Williams
Focus
"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
- Aristotle
Wisdom
"If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert."
- Paulo Coelho
Self-awareness
"An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better."
- Clayton Christensen
Creativity
"It seems to me that to be peaceful and content, you don’t have to know precisely what you want. It may even be better if you don’t. But I think you do need to be very clear what you DON’T want, and steadfast in the not-doing of those things."
- Sandra Boynton
Contentment
"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."
- Danny Boyle
Hope
"My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain."
- Charlie Chaplin
Compassion
"When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It’s simple: if you aren’t willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is."
- T. Harv Eker
Self-improvement
"There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: There are no rules."
- Shonda Rhimes
Originality
"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."
- Reba McEntire
Balance
"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
- Grandma Moses
Awareness
"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."
- Vernon Howard
Contentment
"You do this because you like it, you think what you’re making is beautiful. And if you think it’s beautiful, maybe they think it’s beautiful."
- Lou Reed
Creativity
"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."
- Dorothy West
Learning
"Waking up in truth is so much better than living in a lie."
- Idris Elba
Integrity
"Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people."
- Joe Frazier
Courage
"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent."
- Bob Dylan
Integrity
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
- Ayn Rand
Empowerment
"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
- Bruce Springsteen
Success
"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
Compassion
"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."
- Simone Biles
Happiness
"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."
- Leymah Gbowee
Courage
"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."
- Lady Gaga
Success
"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."
- Childish Gambino
Taking Risks
"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."
- Maria Edgeworth
Presence
"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
Compassion
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."
- A. A. Milne
Contentment
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
- Toni Morrison
Philosophy
"You carry the passport to your own happiness."
- Diane Von Furstenberg
Happiness
"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."
- Drake
Balance
"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"
- Max Levchin
Self-awareness
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
- Benjamin Franklin
Perseverance
"Life has got those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."
- Nicole Kidman
Change
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."
- Charles Dickens
Change
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."
- Oscar Wilde
Awareness
"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."
- Stephanie Perkins
Self-awareness
"I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I’m not saying I’m particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it."
- Kenny G
Hard Work
"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."
- Edwin Elliot
Self-awareness
"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."
- Pema Chodron
Reflection
"If all I do in my life is soothe someone’s spirit with a song , then let me do that and I’m happy."
- Gladys Knight
Contentment
"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"
- Zendaya
Positivity
"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
- Anne Lamott
Joy
"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
Joy
"The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success."
- Kevin Kline
Philosophy
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
- Mortimer J. Adler
Self-improvement
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
- Margaret Mead
Self-awareness
"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."
- Bonnie Prudden
New Beginnings
"There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
- Sam Walton
Responsibility
"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."
- John Guare
Hope
"Forget about style; worry about results."
- Bobby Orr
Focus
"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
Ambition
"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."
- Edna Mode
Presence
"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."
- Steve Furtick
Self-awareness
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
- Thomas Aquinas
Taking Risks
"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."
- Jay-Z
Resilience
"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."
- Dita Von Teese
Self-awareness
"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."
- Don Cheadle
Self-awareness
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
- J.M. Barrie
Personal Growth
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
Originality
"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Awareness
"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."
- Constance Wu
Self-awareness
"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."
- Margaret Atwood
Self-awareness
"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
- Virginia Woolf
Self-awareness
"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."
- Barbara Elaine Smith
Persistence
"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."
- Ross Simmonds
Hard Work
"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
- Warren Buffet
Generosity
"In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Relationships
"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."
- Jason Fried
Contentment
"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
Courage
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
- C.S. Lewis
Forgiveness
"It’s beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it’s well deserved."
- Jennifer Lawrence
Gratitude
"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back."
- Herb Kelleher
Leadership
"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"
- Kate Summers
Happiness
"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."
- S. O’ Sade
Happiness
"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."
- Nanea Hoffman
Happiness
"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leadership
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one."
- Abraham Lincoln
Philosophy
"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."
- Dave Carolan
Positivity
"If God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it!"
- Eleanor Hodgman Porter
Joy
"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
- H.G. Wells
Optimism
"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."
- Louis Mann
Insight
"We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom."
- Bertrand Russell
Awareness
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is an 80 percent friend, not a 20 percent enemy."
- President Reagan
Relationships
"Who sows virtue reaps honor."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Morality
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
- Euripides
Wisdom
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."
- Rudyard Kipling
Optimism
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
Self-awareness
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
- Winnie the Pooh
Positivity
"Happiness is an inside job."
- Anonymous
Happiness
"Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders."
- Senator Mitt Romney
Leadership
"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
- Tom Lehrer
Reflection
"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
Health
"This is it. This is life, the one you get."
- Jeff Barry
Presence
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Leadership
"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
Aspirations
"Life is short, and the world is wide."
Aspirations
"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got."
Forgiveness
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
New Beginnings
"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."
Empowerment
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."
Taking Risks
"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."
Failure
"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."
Resilience
"A year from now you will wish you had started today."
Future
"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."
Self-awareness
"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
Awareness
"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."
Success