Daily Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Uplifting Quotes to Brighten Your Day

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"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

"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

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

"If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach."

- Steve Wozniak

"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

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself."

- Beyoncé

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

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

- George Addair

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Stephen Covey

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"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

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship."

- Amy March

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mark Twain

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"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

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."

- Ovid

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

"Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like."

- Brian Chesky

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

- Willie Nelson

"Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart."

- Quentin Tarantino

"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

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass

"You can’t be afraid of what people are going to say, because you’re never going to make everyone happy."

- Selena Gomez

"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

"Anything in life worth having is worth working for."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Edith Wharton

"When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."

- Josh James

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask."

- Kate Winslet

"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"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

"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

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

- Charles Swindoll

"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

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves."

- Swami Vivekananda

"If you look around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room."

- Lorne Michaels

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."

- Michelangelo

"If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do."

- Jude Law

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

- Estée Lauder

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

"If you focus on results you’ll never change. If you focus on change, you’ll get results."

- Jack Dixon

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

- George Clooney

"Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it."

- Ted Williams

"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

"No failure means no risk, which means nothing new"

- Richard Branson

"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

"So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."

- Caterina Fake

"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

"I hate that word: lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet"

- Dr. Dre

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose."

- Pele

"The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible"

- Mike Horn

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

- Peter Drucker

"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

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King

"The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."

- Eric Ries

"God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."

- Mother Teresa

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from."

- Seth Godin

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."

- Tony Robbins

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Tony Robbins

"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

- Cindy Gallop

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

"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

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"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

"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

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- David Brinkley

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

"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 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

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- George Eliot

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"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

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

- African Proverb

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for."

- Jimmy Stewart

"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

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity."

- Douglas MacArthur

"Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work."

- Margot Robbie

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

- Viktor E. Frankl

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

- Booker T. Washington

"You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you."

- Josephine Baker

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Mister Rogers

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

- John Wooden

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"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

"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

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."

- Christian Bale

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Bill Clinton

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

- Lee Ann Womack

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Mae West

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

- Nelson Mandela

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- William Osler

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

- Buddha

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

- Robert Byrne

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

- Rose Kennedy

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Philip Appleman

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

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- Vivian Greene

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

- Amanda Gorman

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"If you can’t fail, you can never get better."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

"The best protection any woman can have … is courage."

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."

- Galileo Galilei

"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

"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."

- Pope Benedict XVI

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

- Milton Berle

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

- Robin S. Sharma

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."

- Marcel Proust

"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."

- Sylvester Stalone

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one."

- Ronald McNair

"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."

- bell hooks

"Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage"

- Matt Damon

"Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn."

- Satya Nadella

"The chief cause of failure is substituting what you want most for what you want now."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"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

"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

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Gautama Buddha

"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you."

- Indra Nooyi

"It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day."

- Willie Mays

"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself."

- Meryl Streep

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

- Brian Tracy

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"[T]he world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape."

- Bono

"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

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."

- Michael Jordan

"Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

- Richard L. Evans

"Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day."

- Ray Lewis

"Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical."

- Howard Schultz

"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

"Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth."

- Mike Tyson

"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

"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

"Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin."

- Grace Hansen

"Pressure is a privilege. It only comes to those who earn it."

- Billie Jean King

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

- Louis L’Amour

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

- Bob Marley

"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

"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

"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

"Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference."

- Denzel Washington

"It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes."

- Warren Buffett

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."

- William Wallace

"I feel like if it’s not scaring you, you’re doing it wrong."

- Anna Kendrick

"You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Life always offers you a second chance. It is called tomorrow."

- Dylan Thomas

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"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

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

- St. Augustine

"If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like."

- Steph Curry

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

- Dalai Lama

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

"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

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Drew Houston

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Jesse Owens

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Aristotle

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Viola Davis

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Maggie Kuhn

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Og Mandino

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Annette Funicello

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Bob Marley

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Tina Turner

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Audre Lorde

"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

"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

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

- Robert Brault

"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

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Les Brown

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Earl Nightingale

"Life is 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

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- John Lennon

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

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Bill Bradley

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

- Jennifer Aniston

"There is no element of genius without some form of madness."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."

- Stephen Hawking

"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

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

"It’s easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do."

- Mark Ruffalo

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

- Toni Morrison

"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

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Simone Biles

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."

- James Taylor

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes."

- Sally Field

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- John Guare

"Forget about style; worry about results."

- Bobby Orr

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Edna Mode

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steve Furtick

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- Jay-Z

"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"To scale, do things that don’t scale."

- Reid Hoffman

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from."

- Jodie Foster

"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

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

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Edwin Elliot

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand."

- Ada Lovelace

"The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success."

- Kevin Kline

"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

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

- Ross Simmonds

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

- Aristotle

"If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert."

- Paulo Coelho

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Virginia Woolf

"An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better."

- Clayton Christensen

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"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

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

- Danny Boyle

"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

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

- Zendaya

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Margaret Mead

"There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: There are no rules."

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Reba McEntire

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

- Vernon Howard

"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

"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

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

- Warren Buffet

"Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people."

- Joe Frazier

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"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

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Constance Wu

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."

- Francois Rabelais

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

- William Hazlitt

"Business is built on relationships, relationships are built on trust, and the foundation of trust is honesty."

- Various

"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

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

"Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart."

- Michael Ende

"The big money is not in the buying and selling … but in the waiting."

- Charlie Munger

"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

"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

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

- Nicole Kidman

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace."

- Robert Goddard

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."

- Lech Walesa

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- William Bruce Cameron

"Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation"

- Isaac Newton

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Max Levchin

"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."

- Colin Firth

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

"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

"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

"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

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

- Vera Nazarian

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

"Boredom is a lack of crazy. It’s a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you’re bored, blame yourself."

- Katelyn S. Irons

"My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain."

- Charlie Chaplin

"I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Will Arnett

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."

- William Morris

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long."

- Steven Spielberg

"Waking up in truth is so much better than living in a lie."

- Idris Elba

"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."

- Jean-Francois Cope

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent."

- Bob Dylan

"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

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

- W. P. Kinsella

"Sometimes you can only find heaven by slowly backing away from hell."

- Carrie Fisher

"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

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times."

- Mark Twain

"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

"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

"You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them."

- Keira Knightley

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you’re praying."

- Mason Cooley

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."

- Ralph Abernathy

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."

- Michael Porter

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"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

"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

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back."

- Herb Kelleher

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"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

"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."

- Louis Mann

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"

- Kate Summers

"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

"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."

- Dave Carolan

"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

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

- H.G. Wells

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

- C.S. Lewis

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is an 80 percent friend, not a 20 percent enemy."

- President Reagan

"In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"It’s beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it’s well deserved."

- Jennifer Lawrence

"We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom."

- Bertrand Russell

"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

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

- Euripides

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

- Rudyard Kipling

"Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders."

- Senator Mitt Romney

"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

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Happiness is an inside job."

- Anonymous

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Oscar Wilde

"This is it. This is life, the one you get."

- Jeff Barry

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

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

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got."

"Life is short, and the world is wide."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"A year from now you will wish you had started today."

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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

"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."

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

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."