100+ Inspirational and Motivational Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Fire

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Serena Williams

"If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

- Steve Jobs

"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Thomas Edison

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Walt Disney

"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

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Winston Churchill

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Anaïs Nin

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

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

- George Eliot

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

- Geena Davis

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Erica Jong

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

"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

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."

- Taylor Swift

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

- Michelle Obama

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."

- Gabrielle Union

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Duke Ellington

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dale Carnegie

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

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

- John Wooden

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- W. P. Kinsella

"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

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- George Lorimer

"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

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

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

- Tina Fey

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Les Brown

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Germany Kent

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Bo Jackson

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Epicurus

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- George Eliot

"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will."

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"Don’t let what you _cannot_ do interfere with what you _can_ do."

- John Wooden

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."

- Albert Einstein

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Brian Tracy

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

- Henry C. Link

"Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?"

- Brian Tracy

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you."

- Brian Tracy

"Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do."

- Brian Tracy

"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

"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’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

- Michael Phelps

"To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage."

- Confucius

"The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly."

- Brian Tracy

"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

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Og Mandino

"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

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

- Nitya Prakash

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

"Change the game, don’t let the game change you."

- Macklemore

"Self-doubt kills talent."

- Edie McClurg

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Your life only gets better when you get better."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Rob Siltanen

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Warren Buffett

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

- Brian Tracy

"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."

- Marvin Gaye

"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

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

- Mae Jemison

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

- Mae West

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The time is always right to do what is right."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas Edison

"A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."

- Thomas Edison

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do."

- Bob Proctor

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

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

"To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we have never done."

- Juan Casimiro

"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die tomorrow."

- James Dean

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

- Maria Robinson

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslov

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present."

- B. Olatunji

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

- Napoleon Hill

"So many fail because they don’t get started."

- W. Clement Stone

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Napoleon Hill

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up."

- Regina Brett

"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

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

"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

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Amanda Gorman

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!"

- Brian Tracy

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- William James

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

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

- William James

"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."

- William James

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

- Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Ayn Rand

"The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be."

- Loesje

"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."

- Friedrich Schiller

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."

- Michelangelo

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Constance Wu

"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

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Ronald Reagan

"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

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

"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

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

- Sofia Vergara

"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

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Edwin Elliot

"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

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Virginia Woolf

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"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

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing."

- William Shakespeare

"Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J Walker

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Robert Collier

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

- Richard Evans

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Truman Capote

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Jason Fried

"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

"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

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- Aristotle

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

- David Hurley

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."

- Simone Biles

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- Dave Carolan

"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

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

- Warren Buffet

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"It hurt because it mattered."

- John Green

"Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur."

- Mohnish Pabrai

"Through discipline comes freedom."

- Aristotle

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

- Tricia Cunningham

"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Lewis Caroll

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- E.E. Cummings

"You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- Anne Heche

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

- Lily Tomlin

"In the long run, you make your own luck—good, bad, or indifferent."

- Loretta Lynn

"Encouraging someone to be entirely themself is the loudest way to love them."

- Kalen Dion

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

- Amy Poehler

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

"Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow."

- Chris Burkmenn

"So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow."

- Rainbow Rowell

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

"Let's be great."

- Terry Drake

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees."

- Sumi

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'"

- James Caan

"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."

"For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

"There is no such thing as failure, only feedback."

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