Inspiration in Every Day: A Collection of Uplifting Quotes

"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 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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

"One 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

"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

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Amelia Earhart

"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

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

"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

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Confucius

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

- Epicurus

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

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

- Alice Walker

"Power’s not given to you. You have to take it."

- Beyoncé

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You have power over your mind —not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"With great power comes great responsibility."

- Voltaire

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mark Twain

"When you 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

"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

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- George Eliot

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

- Les Brown

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- John Wooden

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

- Walt Disney

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

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

- Roseanne Barr

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

- Shirley Chisholm

"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- W. P. Kinsella

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- David Hurley

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Tony Robbins

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Disney

"There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- George Lorimer

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- George Addair

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

- Leonard I. Sweet

"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

"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

"and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Amanda Gorman

"If you focus on success, you'll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed."

- Deepak Chopra

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader."

- Dolly Parton

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple."

- Paulo Coelho

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement."

- Helen Keller

"Excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."

- Colin Powell

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"God’s gift to us is more talent and ability than we’ll ever hope to use in our lifetime. Our gift to God is to develop as much of that talent and ability as we can in this lifetime."

- Steve Bow

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."

- Sophia Loren

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."

- Laozi

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Karen Lamb

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

- James Clear

"I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it."

- Estée Lauder

"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

"Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation."

- Viktor Frankl

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

- Gandhi

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you."

- Joseph Campbell

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “Thank You,” that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

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

- Maya Angelou

"Love means protection, adoration, mutual growth, & respect above all other things. Without this, love is an illusion, a confused attachment."

- Dena Botbyl

"The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying."

- Steven Pressfield

"Everyone wants to be strong and self-sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals."

- Gandhi

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

"Ask not what the world needs; ask what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Brian Tracy

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."

- Paulo Coelho

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Teddy Roosevelt

"True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from."

- Brianna Wiest

"The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child."

- Deepak Chopra

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

- Mother Teresa

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is."

- Albert Einstein

"Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life."

- Seneca

"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."

- Armand Hammer

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Ian Maclaren

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

- Albert Einstein

"It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."

- Anthony Robbins

"We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world."

- Woodrow Wilson

"There is one grand lie: that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

- R. A. Heinlein

"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn."

- Albert Einstein

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

- E.E. Cummings

"If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."

- Carl Sagan

"We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something."

- Marie Curie

"Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've done before."

- Bonnie Blair

"Self-discipline is doing what’s right instead of doing what you feel like doing. That’s the meaning of self-disciple."

- Eliud Kipchoge

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

- Willie Nelson

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

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

- Bryant McGill

"The quality of our life on planet earth depends on the choices we make every day."

- BJ Fogg

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

- William Faulkner

"The place to find who you are is where you stand."

- George Mumford

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

- Kesha

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

- Buddha

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ayn Rand

"Always be a first version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."

- Judy Garland

"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."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Walt Whitman

"You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were."

- Sidney Poitier

"It’s not your life. It’s how you choose to look at your life."

- Ken Block

"I’m here to contribute. We all depend on each other. I depend on people in generations prior to me. People in generations after me will depend on me."

- Bryan Nwafor

"It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit."

- John Wooden

"Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dolly Parton

"The paradox of learning is that to get better, you need to go outside your comfort zone, and thus feel worse. The people who grow continuously, thus feel consistently over their heads."

- Scott Young

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

- Philip Appleman

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

- Henry Ford

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

- William Osler

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

- William Hazlitt

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

- Plutarch

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Aristotle

"The small happy moments add up. A little bit of joy goes a long way."

- Melissa McCarthy

"Your intent is for the future, but your attention is in the present."

- Deepak Chopra

"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are."

- Gretel Ehrlich

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

- Lewis Carroll

"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day."

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Charles Kettering

"In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."

- Warren Buffett

"Meaning is about making a difference, not having an audience."

- Adam Grant

"We’re only envious of those already doing what we were made to do. Envy is a giant, flashing arrow pointing us toward our destiny."

- Glennon Doyle Melton

"Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good."

- Minor Myers

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

- John Lennon

"Every great mistake has a half way moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

- Pearl S. Buck

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions."

- Tony Robbins

"In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don’t worry. Be happy."

- Bobby McFerrin

"When two people fall in love, past and future disappear."

- The Alchemist

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

- Sun Tzu

"Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

- Bruce Lee

"If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals."

- Lou Holtz

"Whether you KNOW it or not, ACCEPT it or not, with each moment that passes, you get closer to fulfilling your life’s purpose."

- Dena Botbyl

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

"Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back."

- Harvey Mackay

"Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me."

- Wayne Dyer

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

- Aristotle

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel."

- King Solomon

"My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power."

- Deepak Chopra

"Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

"It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it."

- Sue Hadfield

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

- John Wooden

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."

- Wayne Dyer

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie

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

- Mae West

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure."

- Joseph Campbell

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all."

- Michelangelo

"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

- Maya Angelou

"What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences."

- Anthony Robbins

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."

- Aaron Rose

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."

- Clementine Paddleford

"Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit."

- Deepak Chopra

"Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning."

- Buddhist Proverb

"Many people have gone a lot farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could."

- Zig Ziglar

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others."

- Mark Twain

"Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Margaret Atwood

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

- Warren Buffett

"There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original."

- Franz Joseph Haydn

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

- Teller

"Good advice helps you find the solution to your problem. Great advice helps you find you were solving the wrong problem."

- Merlin Mann

"The idea says get in the car. Don’t worry, I’m driving. Sometimes I’m shotgun, sometimes I’m in the trunk. The idea takes you where it wants to go."

- Dave Chappelle

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people that they don’t like."

- Will Rogers

"If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade."

- Tom Peters

"We don’t need to learn how to let things go; we just need to learn to recognize when they are already gone."

- Suzuki Roshi

"The first rule of holes: when you are in one, stop digging."

- Molly Ivins

"You are not responsible for your first thought, but you are responsible for your second thought."

- Raquel Smith

"Every one wishes to have Truth on his side, but it is not everyone that sincerely wishes to be on the side of Truth."

- Richard Whately

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

- Aldous Huxley

"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods."

- Socrates

"The sanest thing in this world is love."

- Anne Sexton

"When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure."

- Deepak Chopra

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Act, & God will act."

- Joan of Arc

"Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen."

- The Alchemist

"Every closed door isn’t locked and even if it is…YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!"

- Sanjo Jendayi

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

- Robert Frost

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."

- Sarah Bernhardt

"The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you."

- Michael Ventura

"God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. You were never not coming here."

- Sufi poem

"Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears…"

- Nitya Prakash

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

- Louis L'Amour

"It’s better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven."

- John Milton

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Napoleon Hill

"To me faith means not worrying."

- John Dewey

"Whatever is… is best."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

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

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

"Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are."

"Sometimes, it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

"What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated."

"Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right!"

"If you want more time, freedom, and energy, start saying no."

"The way you treat people is your shield; the way we react to it is ours."

"Your life is your message for the world."

"Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you."

"The secret of getting ahead is to getting started."

"Storms don’t last forever; sometimes they make a mess of things, but there always appears those rays of hope that help you put your sails back up to keep moving on."

"Worry. . . looks around. Sorry. . . looks back. Faith. . . . looks up."

"People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said; BUT, they will always remember how you made them feel."

"You don’t have to be a genius, you do have to have skills to set apart from the crowd."

"Better late than never."

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

"There are three ways to lead: 1. By example 2. By example 3. By example."

"Let go and let God."

"Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?"

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

"A bird in a cage is safe but God didn’t create birds for that."

"Be willing to say to those in your charge, “I don’t know.”"

"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not break."

"If you get a chance to sing, you should sing."

"You don’t get 100% of what you don’t ask for."

"Hold the vision, trust the process."

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

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

"A person cannot elevate themself by putting another person down."