100+ Inspirational Small Quotes to Brighten Your Day

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Les Brown

"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

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"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

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

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Serena Williams

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- George Addair

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Arthur Ashe

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Carrie Fisher

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Aristotle

"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

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"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

"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

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Childish Gambino

"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

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

- Constance Wu

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Carol Burnett

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Mother Teresa

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Confucius

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Amanda Gorman

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Rob Siltanen

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

- Angela Y. Davis

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Sundar Pichai

"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

"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 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

"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

"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

"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

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

- John Wooden

"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

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"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

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

- Buddhist quote

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What we think, we become."

- Buddha

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Walt Whitman

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Where there is love there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

- Plato

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

"I think, therefore I am."

- René Descartes

"All men are created equal."

- _Declaration of Independence_

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Steve Furtick

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Mark Twain

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Les Brown

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

- George Eliot

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- C.S. Lewis

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Steve Jobs

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Anais Nin

"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Marie Curie

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

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

- E.E. Cummings

"You become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Confucius

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Deep Roy

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Taraji P. Henson

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

- Elaine Welteroth

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

- The Dalai Lama

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Booker T. Washington

"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

"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

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

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

- Warren Buffet

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jessica Ennis

"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

"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

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

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- e.e. cummings

"If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want."

- Kevin Ngo

"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

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Mother Theresa

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Hafez

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- William James

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Bob Dylan

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Vera Wang

"We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

- Victor Hugo

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

- Seneca

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Walt Whitman

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- A. A. Milne

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Lupita Nyong'o

"No road is long with good company."

- Turkish proverb

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

- Aristotle

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

- Confucius

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- John Dewey

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Babe Ruth

"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

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

- Edwin Elliot

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Mandy Hale

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Zendaya

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Annette Funicello

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Demi Lovato

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

- Henry Ford

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Helen Keller

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Kesha

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Yvie Oddly

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Deborah Day

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

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

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

- Walt Disney

"We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person."

- Anne Heche

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

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Bill Nye

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

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

- Lewis Caroll

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Grace Kelly

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Lily Tomlin

"I can resist everything except temptation."

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

- Oscar Wilde

"Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back."

- Oscar Wilde

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

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

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

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."