"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein
Overcoming Obstacles
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Courage
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."
- Steve Jobs
Self-awareness
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Aspirations
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
- Plato
Learning
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vidal Sassoon
Hard Work
"For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head."
- Benjamin Franklin
Learning
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
- Pablo Picasso
Learning
"Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it."
- Confucius
Learning
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
- Albert Einstein
Growth
"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you."
- BB King
Education
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."
- Henry Ford
Learning
"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
Change
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Taking Risks
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
- John D. Rockefeller
Ambition
"Don't count the days, make the days count."
- Muhammad Ali
Time Management
"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."
- Steve Jobs
Ambition
"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."
- Brian Tracy
Persistence
"Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision, a plan, and the courage to chase it relentlessly."
- Walt Disney
Vision
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."
- Colin R. Davis
Success
"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
Success
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."
- Dr. Seuss
Learning
"Dream big and dare to fail."
- Norman Vaughan
Aspirations
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"The only thing that stands between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."
- Jordan Belfort
Belief in Self
"In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn."
- Phil Collins
Inspiration
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."
- Benjamin Franklin
Education
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."
- Sam Levenson
Motivation
"Learning never exhausts the mind."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Inspiration
"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow."
- Robert Kiyosaki
Vision
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
- Aristotle
Learning
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief in Self
"The best revenge is massive success."
- Frank Sinatra
Success
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker
Vision
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Success
"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."
- Bo Bennett
Success
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
- John F. Kennedy
Leadership
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John Wooden
Belief in Self
"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."
- Christian D. Larson
Belief in Self
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."
- Roy T. Bennett
Courage
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
- Lao Tzu
New Beginnings
"Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning."
- Anton Chekhov
Learning
"The only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Optimism
"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."
- Zig Ziglar
Belief in Self
"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Learning
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly, a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
- Thomas Edison
Learning
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Courage
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid."
- Albert Einstein
Belief in Self
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are going or learning to do."
- Pelé
Success
"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan
Failure
"You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."
- Jim Rohn
Growth
"If people only knew how hard I've worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
- Michelangelo
Determination
"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."
- Pele
Success
"I'm not telling you it is going to be easy — I'm telling you it's going to be worth it."
- Art Williams
Motivation
"I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation."
- Joel Osteen
Belief in Self
"The people who are crazy enough to believe they can change the world are the ones who do."
- Steve Jobs
Aspirations
"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."
- Chantal Sutherland
Belief in Self
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker
Vision
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Failure
"There is no substitute for hard work."
- Thomas A. Edison
Hard Work
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
- Colin Powell
Hard Work
"If you’re going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
- William Faulkner
Courage
"I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom."
- General George S. Patton
Resilience
"Success isn’t overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up."
- Dwayne Johnson
Success
"If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."
- Malcolm Gladwell
Ambition
"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and falling over."
- Richard Branson
Learning from Mistakes
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
- Stephen Hawking
Success
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
- Stephen Hawking
Learning
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
- Dalai Lama
Happiness
"Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue."
- Sally Ride
Knowledge
"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."
- John D. Rockefeller
Success
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
- Henry Ford
New Beginnings
"If people only knew how hard I’ve worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all."
- Michelangelo
Hard Work
"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."
- Theodore N. Vail
Resilience
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
- John Quincy Adams
Success
"All happiness depends on courage and work."
- Honoré de Balzac
Courage
"Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it."
- Kevin Gates
Success
"One of the most common causes of failure is quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat."
- Napoleon Hill
Perseverance
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Resilience
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough."
- Muhammad Ali
Aspirations
"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."
- Stephen Hawking
Personal Growth
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."
- Oscar Wilde
Adversity
"By perseverance, the snail reached the ark."
- Charles Spurgeon
Perseverance
"People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy."
- Tony Robbins
Motivation
"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."
- Zig Ziglar
Success
"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don’t want to make mistakes."
- John Maxwell
Productivity
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
- John F. Kennedy
Determination
"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect."
- William Shakespeare
Education
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
- Maria Robinson
Courage
"When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves."
- Viktor Frankl
Adaptation
"Procrastination is the thief of time."
- Edward Young
Time Management
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills
Success
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill."
- Christopher Parker
Productivity
"Dreams don't work unless you do."
- John C. Maxwell
Goals
"Go the extra mile. It's never crowded."
- Dr. Wayne D. Dyer
Hard Work
"If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives."
- Lemony Snicket
Taking Risks
"The journey is the reward."
- Chinese proverb
Success
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
Success
"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."
Self-improvement
"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead."
Education
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."
Motivation
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."
Focus
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Hard Work
"Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder."
Motivation
"Your habits define your future."
Personal Growth
"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough."
Aspirations
"We generate fears while we do nothing. We overcome these fears by taking action."
Motivation
"It’s never too late to be what you might have been."
Motivation
"You don’t have to be great to start. But you have to start to be great."
Motivation
"One day, all your hard work will pay off."
Motivation
"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them."
- Unknown
Aspirations
"Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose."
Hard Work
"Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them."
Drive
"The earlier you start working on something, the earlier you will see results."
Motivation
"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference."
Contribution
"Life is short. Live it. Fear is natural. Face it. Memory is powerful. Use it."
Motivation
"Your time is now."
Motivation
"Do what is right, not what is easy."
Motivation
"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."
- Unknown
Hard Work