"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."
- Steve Jobs
Love
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Success
"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination."
- Ralph Marston
Change
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
- Calvin Coolidge
Persistence
"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."
- Octavia Butler
Persistence
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."
- Nelson Mandela
Resilience
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
- Oprah Winfrey
Empowerment
"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."
- Steve Jobs
Empowerment
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."
- Earl Nightingale
Aspirations
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."
- Martha Graham
Creativity
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition
"Where focus goes, energy flows."
- Tony Robbins
Focus
"Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing."
- Warren Buffett
Motivation
"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."
- Oprah Winfrey
Motivation
"Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is."
- Anne Frank
Belief in Self
"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?"
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Healing
"I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other."
- Harvey Fierstein
Spirituality
"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."
- Brian Tracy
Balance
"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change
"Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck."
- Stefano Gabbana
Ambition
"Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose."
- Michael Franti
Inspiration
"I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work."
- Louis C. K.
Hard Work
"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives."
- J. Michael Straczynski
Responsibility
"Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy."
- DMX
Positivity
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Motivation
"It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health."
- Joyce Meyer
Self-care
"Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness."
- Eckhart Tolle
Spirituality
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
- Robert Kennedy
Courage
"When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple."
- Paulo Coelho
Motivation
"Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble."
- Yehuda Berg
Influence
"I've always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world."
- Britney Spears
Inspiration
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Hard Work
"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy."
- Sai Baba
Love
"When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems."
- Stephen Covey
Empathy
"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."
- Martha Graham
Personal Growth
"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."
- Lee Iacocca
Adversity
"We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength."
- Charles Stanley
Faith
"The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy."
- Domenico Dolce
Positivity
"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."
- Norman Cousins
Hope
"Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all."
- Ban Ki-moon
Responsibility
"Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution."
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Spirituality
"Energy flows where attention goes."
- Michael Beckwith
Focus
"Positive energy is attracted to positive energy."
- Deborah Day
Positivity
"Energy is contagious: either you affect people or you infect people."
- T. Harv Eker
Influence
"Your energy is unique. Embrace it. Use it wisely. Make it count."
- Robin Sharma
Self-awareness
"The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel, and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results."
- Anthony Robbins
Health
"Your energy does an incredible job when combined with your focus and belief."
- Dr. Prem Jagyasi
Focus
"Energy is the currency of the universe. You get what you give."
- Oprah Winfrey
Positivity
"Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world."
- Oprah Winfrey
Empowerment
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
- Buddha
Belief
"You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- A.A. Milne
Belief in Self
"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."
- Paul Graham
Time Management
"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."
- Cormac McCarthy
Hope
"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."
- Dr. Seuss
New Beginnings
"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. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am."
- Michelle Obama
Self-confidence
"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."
- Childish Gambino
Taking Risks
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
- Jane Goodall
Compassion
"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."
- Louise Hay
Personal Growth
"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."
- Sonia Sotomayor
Empowerment
"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."
- Jennifer Lopez
Self-awareness
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."
- Mia Hamm
Taking Risks
"Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted."
- Ava DuVernay
Creativity
"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Empowerment
"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."
- Estée Lauder
Success
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
- Johnny Cash
Change
"Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self."
- Karen Salmansohn
Personal Growth
"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."
- Jon Bon Jovi
Resilience
"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
- Dale Carnegie
Success
"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."
- John Wooden
Success
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."
- Winston Churchill
Optimism
"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."
- Tony Robbins
Goals
"Either you run the day or the day runs you."
- Jim Rohn
Time Management
"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Hard Work
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
- Tony Robbins
Goals
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."
- Oprah Winfrey
Empowerment
"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."
- Confucius
Strength
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
- Dale Carnegie
Learning from Mistakes
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
- Anaïs Nin
Change
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Change
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."
- Walt Disney
Determination
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
Optimism
"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."
- Dave Carolan
Positivity
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."
- Michael Jordan
Teamwork
"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
- Vince Lombardi
Teamwork
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."
- Andrew Carnegie
Teamwork
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
- Henry Ford
Teamwork
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller
Teamwork
"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."
- Dalai Lama
Positivity
"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."
- Chris Grosser
Optimism
"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."
- Les Brown
Self-esteem
"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."
- Mark Cuban
Positivity
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen R. Covey
Belief in Self
"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."
- John Wooden
Hard Work
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Determination
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
- William James
Change
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Taking Risks
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."
- Marcus Aurelius
Gratitude
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."
- Wayne Dyer
Motivation
"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."
- Germany Kent
Motivation
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
- Zig Ziglar
Service
"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."
- Pablo Picasso
Motivation
"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."
- Angela Bassett
Determination
"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."
- Tobias Lütke
Empowerment
"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."
- Bo Jackson
Goals
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill
Determination
"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."
- Jim Rohn
Motivation
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey
Creativity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage
"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."
- Clayton M. Christensen
Personal Growth
"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"
- Cindy Gallop
Liberation
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Courage
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."
- Maya Angelou
Courage
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
Inspiration
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
- Henry Ford
Failure
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius
Resilience
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer
Inspiration
"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."
- Arlan Hamilton
Motivation
"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."
- Ariana Huffington
Learning from Mistakes
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
- Henry Ford
Courage
"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
- Wayne Dyer
Inner Peace
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe
Motivation
"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."
- Ross Simmonds
Hard Work
"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."
- George Addair
Facing Fears
"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."
- Ayn Rand
Ambition
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Resilience
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."
- Mark Twain
Personal Growth
"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."
- Bruce Lee
Awareness
"The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost
Resilience
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."
- Ruth Gordo
Courage
"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."
- Drew Houston
Motivation
"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Success
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."
- Lady Gaga
Empowerment
"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."
- Roseanne Barr
Empowerment
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
- Margaret Thatcher
Empowerment
"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Empowerment
"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."
- Madeleine Albright
Empowerment
"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
- Ayn Rand
Empowerment
"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
- Warren Buffet
Generosity
"One man with courage makes a majority."
- Andrew Jackson
Courage
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
Success
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."
- Confucius Kongzi
Learning from Mistakes
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Compassion
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
- Benjamin Franklin
Perseverance
"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
- Augustine Og Mandino
Learning
"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."
- Charlie Munger
Wisdom
"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."
- Tina Fey
Taking Risks
"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."
- Jessica Ennis
Belief in Self
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Vision
"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
- Vince Lombardi
Success
"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."
- Mia Hamm
Success
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
Ambition
"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."
- Joe Girard
Success
"You carry the passport to your own happiness."
- Diane Von Furstenberg
Happiness
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."
- Arthur Ashe
Compassion
"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
- Bill Gates
Learning from Mistakes
"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."
- Drake
Balance
"Ideation without execution is delusion."
- Robin Sharma
Creativity
"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."
- Patrick Lencioni
Teamwork
"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."
- Jean-Francois Cope
Teamwork
"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."
- Laird Hamilton
Self-awareness
"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Family
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
New Beginnings
"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."
- Helen Keller
Compassion
"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."
- Edmond Mbiaka
Motivation
"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."
- Lucille Ball
Reflection
"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"
- David Dweck
New Beginnings
"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."
- Steve Furtick
Self-awareness
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
- Aristotle
Motivation
"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"
- Kate Summers
Happiness
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau
Success
"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."
- Mister Rogers
Compassion
"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."
- Byron Pulsifer
Happiness
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."
- Colin R. Davis
Success
"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."
- W. P. Kinsella
Happiness
"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."
- Catherine Pulsifer
Balance
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
Reflection
"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."
- Jay-Z
Resilience
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
- Arianna Huffington
Personal Growth
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
- Alexander Graham Bell
Focus
"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."
- Pema Chodron
Reflection
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."
- Barbara Elaine Smith
Persistence
"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."
- Bill Walsh
Leadership
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
- William Blake
Motivation
"Love is energy of life."
- Robert Browning
Love
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
- Henry Ford
Efficiency
"Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end."
- Tom Hiddleston
Positivity
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."
- Dolly Parton
Self-awareness
"Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."
- Corita Kent
Love
"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive."
- Matt Cameron
Positivity
"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."
- Michael Jordan
Positivity
"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."
- Don Cheadle
Self-awareness
"We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy."
- Lorraine Toussaint
Self-awareness
"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."
- Elbert Hubbard
Positivity
"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."
- Leymah Gbowee
Courage
"Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere."
- Keanu Reeves
Spirituality
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
Originality
"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."
- Deepak Chopra
Health
"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Choice
"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."
- Thornton Wilder
Love
"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."
- Warren Buffett
Efficiency
"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Love
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
- Thomas Aquinas
Taking Risks
"I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end up living a pretty rough life. At a young age, I just knew I wasn't going to give in because I didn't want to end up being one of those people in the neighborhood that didn't have anything and lived a hard life."
- LaMarcus Aldridge
Adversity
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
- Benjamin Franklin
Persistence
"Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life."
- William Shatner
Creativity
"Nothing is more powerful than a person with a fully-charged energy."
- Paulo Coelho
Strength
"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."
- Dita Von Teese
Self-awareness
"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Awareness
"The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character."
- Dorothea Dix
Inspiration
"There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul."
- Dhani Jones
Inspiration
"When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually."
- Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Awareness
"Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power."
- Rain
Motivation
"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment."
- Dale Carnegie
Self-care
"Always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to bring some portion of misery to an end."
- Albert Schweitzer
Contribution
"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."
- Constance Wu
Self-awareness
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
- Albert Camus
Awareness
"If you don't have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur."
- Elon Musk
Vision
"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."
- Arlan Hamilton
Empowerment
"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
- Anne Lamott
Joy
"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest."
- Walter Anderson
Courage
"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."
- Yulia Tymoshenko
Empowerment
"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."
- Edna Mode
Presence
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."
- S. O’ Sade
Happiness
"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."
- Nanea Hoffman
Happiness
"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."
- Diane Von Furstenberg
Empowerment
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
- Winnie the Pooh
Positivity
"Women must learn to play the game as men do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Empowerment
"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."
- Melissa McCarthy
Determination
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
- Mortimer J. Adler
Self-improvement
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
- Vernon Sanders Law
Learning from Mistakes
"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."
- David Hurley
Respect
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."
- A. A. Milne
Contentment
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
Contentment
"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."
- Cindy Gallop
Empowerment
"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."
- Maria Edgeworth
Presence
"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
- Tom Lehrer
Reflection
"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."
- Jason Fried
Contentment
"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."
- Dorothy West
Learning
"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leadership
"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!"
- T. D. Jakes
Empowerment
"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."
- Diane McLaren
Health
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
Self-awareness
"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."
- George Meredith
Empowerment
"Positive energy and attitude is sexy to me."
- Mya
Positivity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels."
- Daveed Diggs
Leadership
"Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy."
- Michael J. Saylor
Originality
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Leadership
"A year from now you will wish you had started today."
Future
"Your energy introduces you even before you speak."
Self-awareness
"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."
Self-awareness
"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."
Empowerment
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."
Taking Risks
"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."
Success
"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
Awareness