Inspiration Quote of the Week: A Curated Collection to Ignite Your Spirit

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

- Sam Levenson

"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

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

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

- Albert Pujols

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"The most effective way to do it is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"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

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier & healthier life."

- Germany Kent

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Mondays are the start of the work week which offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Winston Churchill

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Mark Cuban

"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

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"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

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."

- Tony Robbins

"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."

- Philip Sidney

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

- Walt Disney

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

"I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true — hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it."

- Ray Bradbury

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

- Robin Williams

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Earl Nightingale

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."

- Araminta Ross (later known as Harriet Tubman)

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Judy Garland

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

- Aldous Huxley

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

- FDR

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

- George Addair

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Gale Sayers

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."

- Pope John XXIII

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

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Og Mandino

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Confucius

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Brian Tracy

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"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 dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

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

- George Addair

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

- Joseph Campbell

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

- Daphne du Maurier

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."

- Olin Miller

"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."

- Ruth Gordon

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

- Carol Burnett

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed."

- E. Jean Carroll

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious effort."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and the spirit."

- Helena Rubenstein

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Amy Poehler

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

"Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow."

- Jerry Spinelli

"Every day brings new choices."

- Martha Beck

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon."

- Charles M. Schulz

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

"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

"Happiness, not in another place but this place ... not for another hour, but this hour."

- Walt Whitman

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

- Lewis Carroll

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need."

- Ann Richards

"Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."

- Betty Smith

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am."

- Sylvia Plath

"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."

- Ashley Montagu

"In this world, all — men, women, and kings — must live for the present."

- Alexandre Dumas

"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed."

- Mattie Stepanek

"There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments."

- C.S. Lewis

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in."

- Virginia Woolf

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

- Emily Dickinson

"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

"Hey, I know it’s Monday. But it’s also a new day and a new week. And in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen."

- Michael Ely

"Monday, the start of a new week, with brand-new opportunities to enjoy all that life has to offer."

- Audrey Carlan

"I love Mondays because it's the start of a new week with new opportunities. I'm excited to see what the week brings!"

- Arianna Huffington

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

- George Lorimer

"When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it’s Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions."

- Edmond Embiaka

"This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"Do not try to be someone else. You're not living your life for somebody else; you're living your life for yourself."

- Zendaya

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Jim Rohn

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

- John F. Kennedy

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

- Stephen Hawking

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

- William Blake

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

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

- Tony Robbins

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

- St. Jerome

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

- Aristotle

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

- Ayn Rand

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Florence Nightingale

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

- Tricia Cunningham

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

- Joyce Brothers

"Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Amanda Gorman

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Michael Altshuler

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Cicely Tyson

"Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen."

- Sukhraj S. Dhillon

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Maya Angelou

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world."

- Jack Layton

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

- Willie Nelson

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."

- Nicholas Murray Butler

"Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence."

- Bruce Lee

"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life. Give positivity, you receive back positivity; give negativity, you receive back negativity."

- Rhonda Byrne

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

- Albert Einstein

"We need to be bold and ambitious in our thinking about how we can solve the world's problems."

- Elon Musk

"It's never too late to be what you might've been."

- George Eliot

"When you believe in yourself and follow your own path, you can accomplish anything."

- Malik Ducard

"We can be whatever we have the courage to see."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"Age should not limit your dreams. The world is waiting for your magic."

- Nikhil Kamath

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently."

- Warren Buffet

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

- Jeff Bezos

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Thomas Edison

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- Warren Buffet

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Epicurus

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Jay-Z

"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

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Confucius

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"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

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

"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

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

- Willie Mays

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

- Salvador Dali

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

- Alice Walker

"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

"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

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

- Joe Frazier

"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

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

- Robert Goddard

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

- Grace Hansen

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

- Isaac Newton

"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

"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

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

- Dylan Thomas

"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

"The lessons aren’t about wealth or fame or working harder and harder. The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period."

- Dr. Robert Waldinger

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Rosa Parks

"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

"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

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

- Steph Curry

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"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

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

- George Clooney

"The biggest temptation is to settle for too little."

- Thomas Merton

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

- James Clear

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you do every job like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, that’s when you get noticed."

- Mary Barra

"The things that scare you only make you better and stronger."

- Octavia Spencer

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."

- Kyle Chandler

"A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at."

- Bruce Lee

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

- Earl Nightingale

"I have always thought the only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work."

- Kathleen Winsor

"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

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Jane Goodall

"The first step is clearly defining what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it."

- Halle Berry

"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

"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."

- Steve Jobs

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Edison

"Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities."

- Orison Swett Marden

"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"

- Bruce Lee

"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

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- John Wooden

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"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

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

- David Hurley

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

- Joe Girard

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps … I’m the first Simone Biles."

- Simone Biles

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough"

- Lionel Messi

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

- Sun Tzu

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

- Alexander the Great

"Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done."

- Charlie Kaufman

"I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change."

- Reese Witherspoon

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Benedict Cumberbatch

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Steve Wozniak

"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

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"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

"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 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

"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

"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

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

- Indra Nooyi

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

- Ovid

"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

"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

"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

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

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

- Brian Chesky

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

- Grandma Moses

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Kate Winslet

"Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."

- Doug Larson

"Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out."

- Randall Munroe

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

- Swami Vivekananda

"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

"I’ll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done."

- Audie Murphy

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking."

- General George S. Patton

"Reality is created by the mind; we can change our reality by changing our mind."

- Plato

"Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life."

- Cesar Chavez

"What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner."

- James Dyson

"Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?"

- Caroline Myss

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Lorne Michaels

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

- Jude Law

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

- Amy March

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

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

- Quentin Tarantino

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

- Mario Andretti

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

- Ralph Abernathy

"I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy."

- Mike Rowe

"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

"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world."

- Archimedes

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

- Josephine Baker

"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

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

- Aristotle

"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

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'"

- Sydney J. Harris

"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

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

- Douglas MacArthur

"This is not just a job. This is a passion. Connecting people, connecting the world, making a difference. How many jobs can say I made the world better today? We do that every single day."

- Ed Bastian

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

- Epictetus

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

"I’m intimidated by the fear of being average."

- Taylor Swift

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

- Frederick Douglass

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do."

- John Holt

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."

- Joel A. Barker

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Marcel Proust

"Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible."

- Joel Brown

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

- Josh James

"The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender."

- David Allen

"The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'"

- Mark Zuckerberg

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

- Thomas Huxley

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

- Lech Walesa

"It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t."

- Ricky Gervais

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

- Henry Ford

"Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you."

- Tony Hsieh

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

- Dave Carolan

"Don't wait for opportunity. Create it."

- Chris Grosser

"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

"The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there."

- Vince Lombardi

"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

"Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody’s job and don’t just settle."

- Michael B. Jordan

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

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- Kate Summers

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."

- Ida B. Wells

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Sylvester Stalone

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

- bell hooks

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

- Galileo Galilei

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

- Selena Gomez

"I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these 10 or 20 lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words."

- Joseph Pulitzer

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

- Edith Wharton

"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

"You are never too good for anything. Always be willing to do everything."

- Thomas Parkinson

"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

"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

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

- African Proverb

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Anne Lamott

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

- George Patton

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"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

"If you’re ever thinking, Oh, but I’m a waste of space and I’m a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don’t you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?"

- Maria Bamford

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

- Paulo Coelho

"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

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"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

"Whether I fail or succeed, it’s the going for it."

- Jonathan Van Ness

"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax."

- Bryant McGill

"The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name."

- Sylvia Browne

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

- William Bruce Cameron

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

- Charles Dickens

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Mark Ruffalo

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

- Robert Schuller

"Either move or be moved."

- Ezra Pound

"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

"I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real."

- Sean Parker

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

- Ada Lovelace

"Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life."

- Ken Poirot

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end."

- Jessica Herrin

"People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you’re succeeding. People do not get scared when you’re failing. It calms them. But when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them."

- Mindy Kaling

"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

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

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

- H.G. Wells

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic."

- Zig Ziglar

"Greatness is defined by how much you want to put into what you do"

- LeBron James

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world – and you can’t.’ Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it."

- Adora Svitak

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

"Don't be afraid to stand out and be different. Your uniqueness is your greatest strength."

- Janine Allis

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

- Carrie Fisher

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

- Dale Carnegie

"You don't achieve success by taking it easy or working on it later. You achieve it through persistence and hard work."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

- Dolly Parton

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

- Rosa Parks

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

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

- Ayn Rand

"Make each day your masterpiece,"

- John Wooden, Coach

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Sam Levenson

"Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility."

- Michelle Obama

"Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you."

- Albert Einstein

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power"

- Oprah Winfrey

"The first step forward is to admit your fear, then you can take the next step to conquer it."

- Ken Poirot

"Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage."

- Amelia Earhart

"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear."

- Arianna Huffington

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal--a commitment to excellence--that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

- Mario Andretti

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

- Bertrand Russell

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind."

- Napoleon Hill

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

- Andrew Carnegie

"In every moment the past is born and the present flows into the future, taking the moment that already passed."

- Dejan Stojanovic

"If you know anything about me, you know that my life’s taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!"

- Naomi Judd

"The beginning is always today"

- Mary Shelley, author

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

- George S. Patton

"Trust your idea enough to know that it can challenge the status quo."

- Arlyn Davich

"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

"I believe that business is the greatest platform for change."

- Blake Mycoskie

"I believe that every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, regardless of their background."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"I must break the routines and become a person who becomes productive every Monday. I must break the mindset of unhappiness and turn myself into a happy magnet for Mondays."

- Leggy Saul

"The only sustainable way to win is to enable others."

- Boyong Ma

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- George Herbert

"The plan is to fan this spark into a flame."

- Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

- Karen Lamb

"Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career."

- Ryan Freitas

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises; and gathers strength and courage as the day goes on."

- Charles Dickens

"To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way."

- Henry Link

"Friday is a day to finish your goals for the week. It is a day to celebrate that which you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the week."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Spend 80% of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Toni Morrison

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Nido Qubein

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Know that something good will always happen."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"

- Steve Jobs

"There is no traffic jam along the extra mile."

- Roger Staubach

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

- Will Rogers

"Before I started, I decided that I’d only pursue this career if my self-worth was dependent on more than celebrity success."

- Beyoncé

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."

- Anita Roddick

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- St. Augustine

"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"That’s what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."

- Joseph Barbera

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."

- Arnold Glasow

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

- Mother Teresa

"When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be."

- Lao Tzu

"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."

- Rumi

"Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change."

- Richard Branson

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"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

"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

"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me"

- Diego Maradona

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Various

"You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works."

- Pope Francis

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"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

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

- Cormac McCarthy

"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl

"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

"Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky."

- Valentina Tereshkova

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"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

"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

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"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

"Your messaging should convey, ‘Here’s why you would be so lucky if you got me,’ instead of ‘I really wanted it,’ which we all tend to do."

- Barbara Corcoran

"To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts."

- Roger Ebert

"It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you’d better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call."

- Jyoti Arora

"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

"It’s tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 a.m. when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas."

- Marvin Hagler

"We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to, that’s part of your obligation."

- Bill Murray

"We each come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and lucky breaks we can never fully understand."

- MacKenzie Scott

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

- Kevin Kline

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Sally Field

"It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant."

- Katarina Witt

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

- Jennifer Lawrence

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

- Colin Firth

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Danny Boyle

"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

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

- Clayton Christensen

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

- Charlie Chaplin

"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

"Never complain and never explain."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life."

- Grant Cardone

"It isn’t possible to create anything of scale beyond one person without first recognizing the need and then asking for help."

- Michelle Duval

"If you don’t have time for the small things, you won’t have time for the big things."

- Richard Branson

"It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started."

- Marilu Henner

"We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things."

- Herb Kelleher

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."

- Galatians 6:9

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Idris Elba

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Walter Anderson

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Epictetus

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

- Rick Riordan

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

- Auguste Rodin

"If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling."

- Vince Gilligan

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

"Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul."

- Sir Terry Waite

"It was the first evidence to me that we’d changed the world."

- John Shepherd-Barron

"Work is not only a means of earning a living: it is also a place where we express ourselves, feel useful, and learn the great lesson of concreteness, which helps keep the spiritual life from becoming spiritualism."

- Pope Francis

"All medicine is like that. It came from someone who dared."

- Dr. William DeVries

"Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them."

- Vaibhav Shah

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"If money is your first thought when you wake up, you need to dream bigger."

- Lisa Messenger

"Before dreaming about the future or making plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do."

- Reid Hoffman

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

"My point is life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The piña and the colada."

- Ellen Degeneres

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

- Senator Mitt Romney

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Make each day of the week like Friday and your life will take on new enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Friday is a day to be happy and thankful for the week that was. A day to look forward to the weekend with a smile."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

- Oscar Wilde

"If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big."

- Ben Silbermann

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Monday Morning Blues? Why not change the color of your Monday to yellow and brighten up the coming week?"

- Kanika Saxena

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

- Jeff Barry

"So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends — but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership."

- Julio Alexi Genao

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

- Don Marquis

"[My biggest mistake is probably] weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."

- Elon Musk

"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

"Don’t trust any one story of how to become successful."

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Rudyard Kipling

"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

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!"

- T. D. Jakes

"I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals."

- Brad Pitt

"How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?"

- Satchel Paige

"You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows."

- Matt Drudge

"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

- Isaac Asimov

"Write this down, young man. Life has been extremely, I say extremely, kind."

- Margaret Gorman

"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."

- Shigeru Miyamoto

"It’s a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering. There’s no escaping that."

- Stephen Colbert

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

- James Taylor

"I have captured the light and arrested its flight. The sun itself shall draw my pictures."

- Louis Daguerre

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

- Euripides

"Memory is original events combined with every other time you’ve remembered that event. This is why therapy’s helpful."

- Becky Kennedy

"It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart."

- Al Pacino

"Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate."

- Kieran Culkin

"Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken."

- Myrtle Aydelotte

"It was the ultimate dream. But the idea of a young black American like me owning a Cadillac? It seemed too far-fetched."

- Dick Gidron

"You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs."

- Ruben Dario

"It’s a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers."

- Michael Che

"Think about me every now and then, old friend."

- John Lennon

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Being positive is a sign of intelligence."

- Maxime Lagace

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."

- James Oppenheim

"I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it, and tomorrow as the moon sees it."

- Hannah Hoch

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."

- Joseph Joubert

"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

"I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me."

- Eddie Vedder

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Bob Dylan

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"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

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

- George Meredith

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends."

- Lyndon Johnson

"God works a miracle!"

- William Bradford

"Get into what your kids are into. How miserable would it be to always be anti-popular stuff like ‘ughhhh you seriously like Taylor Swift?'"

- Joel Willis

"Failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."

- Jack Canfield

"You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible."

- Larry Page

"I can’t tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun."

- Phil Knight

"Without the weekend, where would the week be?"

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Friday is like a green light; you speed up until after work and start to slow down once the light turns yellow."

- El Fuego

"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."

- Baltasar Gracián

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

- Buddah

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

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

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

"A positive mindset attracts positive outcomes."

"There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path."

"If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, concentrate the mind on the present."

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

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

"The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty."

"Perform your obligatory duties, because action is indeed better than inaction."

"And never say of anything, 'Indeed, I will do that tomorrow,' Except [when adding], 'If Allah wills.'"

"The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands."

"She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks."

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

"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."

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

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

"Some of the biggest achievements of your life will come from helping others achieve."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."