Inspiring Quotes to Motivate You at Work

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”"

- Abraham Lincoln

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"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

"Success is my only option, failure’s not."

- Eminem

"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Winston Churchill

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Maya Angelou

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

"Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”"

- Julie Andrews

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"I dream it / I work hard / I grind ’til I own it"

- Beyoncé

"“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”"

- William Patten

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

- Tricia Cunningham

"Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Steve Jobs

"I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’"

- Leah Busque

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

- Marie Curie

"Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Aristotle

"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.

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Steve Jobs

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

- George Lucas

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

- Robert Hall

"It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."

- Mark Cuban

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work."

- Stephen King

"Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."

- Patrick Suskind

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."

- Haile Gebrselassie

"Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Saint Francis

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Michael Jordan

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

- Brian Tracy

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work—and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

- Lucille Ball

"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done."

- Robin Sharma

"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute."

- Simon Sinek

"Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job."

- Scott and Kelly Blanchard

"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."

- Eraldo Banovac

"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret."

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Albert Einstein

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that."

- Herb Kelleher

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

- Douglas MacArthur

"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."

- Bob Nelson

"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."

- Stephen R. Covey

"The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’"

- Komil Toume

"If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work."

- Ari Weinzweig

"Employees aren't just workers, they're the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business."

- Kilroy J. Oldster

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

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.’"

- Cory Booker

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work."

- Jonathan Sacks

"“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

"Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

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

- Vivian Greene

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Winston Churchill

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"There’s no abiding success without commitment."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"Don’t justify your dreams, execute on them."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Ayn Rand

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny."

- Og Mandino

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Winston Churchill

"To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself."

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray

"Self – trust is the first secret to success."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

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

- Tony Robbins

"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals—that is, goals that do not inspire them."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Tony Robbins

"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion."

- Michael Jordan

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Maya Angelou

"“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”"

- Lou Holtz

"“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.”"

- Thomas Jefferson

"“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.”"

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Robert Collier

"“Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen.”"

- Conan O'Brien

"“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”"

- Colin Powell

"“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”"

- Mahatma Gandhi

"“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act. But a habit.”"

- Aristotle

"“If you are not where you want to be, do not quit. Instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.”"

- Eric Thomas

"“Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”"

- Anne Sweeney

"“The best revenge is massive success.”"

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Confucius

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Paulo Coelho

"“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”"

- Saint Francis

"“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”"

- Lou Holtz

"“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”"

- John F. Kennedy

"“Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities.”"

- Sophia Amoruso

"“Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners.”"

- Robert Kiyosaki

"“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”"

- Jim Rohn

"“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

"“If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.”"

- Richard Branson

"“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”"

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Nelson Mandela

"“The future depends on what you do today.”"

- Mahatma Gandhi

"“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”"

- Mahatma Gandhi

"“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.”"

- Pele

"“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”"

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Tony Robbins

"“You are not your resume, you are your work.”"

- Seth Godin

"“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”"

- Lao Tzu

"“What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.”"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"“How wonderful is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”"

- Anne Frank

"“Make each day your masterpiece.”"

- John Wooden

"“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”"

- Zig Ziglar

"“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.”"

- Steve Jobs

"“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”"

- John C. Maxwell

"“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”"

- Napoleon Hill

"“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”"

- Tim Notke

"“Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.”"

- Benjamin Disraeli

"“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”"

- Henry Ford

"“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”"

- Confucius

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

- Earl Nightingale

"“A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence.”"

- Jim Watkins

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- George Lorimer

"“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”"

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Dalai Lama

"“Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.”"

- Dwayne Johnson

"“You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.”"

- Tony Morgan

"always be the hardest worker in the room."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

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

- Aristotle

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

"If you’ve created a work culture where vulnerability isn’t ok, you’ve also created a culture where innovation and creativity aren’t ok."

- Brené Brown

"Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first."

- Simon Sinek

"Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients."

- Richard Branson

"ACT. Actions kills procrastination and creates momentum to keep yourself motivated to keep moving ahead."

- Dani Johnson

"It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen."

- Scott Belsky

"If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!"

- T. Harv Eker

"At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure."

- Erin Cummings

"Act as if it was, and it will be."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Helen Keller

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

- Zig Ziglar

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive."

- Robert H. Schuller

"It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach."

- Benjamin E. Mays

"Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"Men search all their lives for power and fame without attaining either, because they do not recognize that the real source of both is within their own minds."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

"Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams."

- Donovan Bailey

"You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself."

- Alan Alda

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

- Henry Ford

"“Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.”"

- Maya Angelou

"Owning up to your vulnerabilities is a form of strength."

- Lizzo

"The reality is: Sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens. And it happens when it needs to happen. And you need to embrace those things."

- Beyoncé

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

- Truman Capote

"And how do you know when you’re doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you’re supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Self-care is really rooted in self-preservation, just like self-love is rooted in honesty. We have to start being more honest with what we need, and what we deserve, and start serving that to ourselves. It can be a spa day! But for a lot of people, it's more like, I need a mentor. I need someone to talk to. I need to see someone who looks like me that's successful, that's doing the things that I want to do, to know that it's possible."

- Lizzo

"Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better."

- Melinda French Gates

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

- Amanda Gorman

"Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first."

- Anna Quindlen

"Before I started, I decided that I’d only pursue this career if my self-worth was dependent on more than celebrity success."

- Beyoncé

"People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you’re succeeding. People do not get scared when you’re failing. It calms them. But when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them."

- Mindy Kaling

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

- Joyce Brothers

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B.F. Skinner

"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

- George M. Moore Jr.

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"A minute’s success pays the failure of years."

- Robert Browning

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?"

- Karen Salmansohn

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

- Richard Branson

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it."

- Chinese Proverb

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Napoleon Hill

"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

"Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

- Frank Ocean

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Walt Disney

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better."

- David Allen

"You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

- Trina Paulus

"Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Challenges are what makes life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible."

- Robert Schuller

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Robert Schuller

"It’s always the hard part that creates value."

- Seth Godin

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John Rockefeller

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

- Rumi

"If you hear a voice within you, say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means, paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."

- William Durant

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

- Biz Stone

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore."

- Michele Ruiz

"If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up."

- Isabelle Lafleche

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

"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

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”"

- William Feather

"“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”"

- Ayn Rand

"“You always have two choices — your commitment versus your fear.”"

- Sammy Davis Jr.

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

- Karen Lamb

"Trust yourself. You probably know more than you think you do… Trust that you can learn anything."

- Melinda French Gates

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"It’s always too soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Winston Churchill

"“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”"

- Will Rogers

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible."

- Miguel de Unamuno

"Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"If something’s important enough, you should try."

- Elon Musk

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

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

- Zig Ziglar

"“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”"

- Richard Bach

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing."

- Barry Werner

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways."

- Robert Greene

"You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be."

- Marianne Williamson

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"“Your goal should be just out of reach. But not out of sight.”"

- Remi Witt

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them."

- Ann Landers

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

- William Arthur Ward

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."

- Doris Day

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"The root of joy is gratefulness . . . It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful."

- David Steindl-Rast

"“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”"

- Henry Ford

"“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”"

- Albert Einstein

"As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success."

- Tamara Taylor

"Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe."

- Sumner Redstone

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

"“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”"

- Thomas Foxwell Buxton

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

- Tricia Cunningham

"“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”"

- Jimmy Johnson

"Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"The key to success is to start before you are ready."

- Marie Forleo

"It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together."

- Lloyd Dobens

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."

- Simon Sinek

"Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation."

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

"We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality time we put in."

- Arianna Huffington

"“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”"

- Amelia Earhart

"“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”"

- Jim Rohn

"“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”"

- George Bernard Shaw

"“We will either find a way or make one.”"

- Hannibal

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

- Thomas Carlyle

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

"People want to know they matter, and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract."

- Pamela Stroko

"A river cuts through a rock not because of its power but its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"“Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”"

- Yoda

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"“If a mind thinks with a believing attitude, one can do amazing things.”"

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Zig Ziglar

"What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ayn Rand

"There will always be hurdles in life, but if you want to achieve a goal, you must continue."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"There will be people who say to you, ‘You are out of your lane.’ They are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what can be. But don’t you let that burden you."

- Kamala Harris

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"“Not knowing you can’t do something is sometimes all it takes to do it.”"

- Ally Carter

"“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”"

- Meister Eckhart

"I break chains all by myself / Won’t let my freedom rot in hell / Hey! I’ma keep running / ‘Cause a winner don't quit on themselves"

- Beyoncé

"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

"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

"Do not let anyone ever tell you who you are."

- Kamala Harris

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether he’s twenty or eighty."

- Henry Ford

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves."

- Chanakya

"“Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.”"

- Denis Waitley

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience."

- John Dewey

"Don’t confuse having a career with having a life."

- Hillary Clinton

"No one on his deathbed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office."

- Paul Tsongas

"Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."

- Dolly Parton

"We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list."

- Michelle Obama

"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."

- Stephen Covey

"There is no such thing as work— life balance. It is all life. The balance has to be within you."

- Sadhguru

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."

- Charles Buxton

"You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Life is a balance between holding on and letting go."

- Rumi

"Be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life is a great balancing act."

- Dr. Seuss

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."

- Banksy

"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."

- Angela Duckworth

"“Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it.”"

- Chinese Proverb

"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day."

- Will Durant

"The only thing you have control over is your attitude."

- Viktor Frankl

"You can make a positive impact on the world when you maintain your equanimity, resilience, recovery, and renewal as strong and positive."

- Amit Ray

"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"Resiliency is something you do, more than something you have. . . You become highly resilient by continuously learning your best way of being yourself in your circumstance."

- Al Siebert

"It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. . . Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

- Hans Selye

"When nobody fails, everybody loses. Feedback and resilience are vital."

- Alan Froggatt

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get."

- Frank A. Clark

"“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”"

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"The only thing of real importance that leaders do is create and manage culture."

- Edgar Schein

"Courage is like a muscle – we strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordon

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

- Buddha

"All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader."

- John Maxwell

"To handle yourself use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

- Rumi

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not."

- Elon Musk

"I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."

- Jeff Bezos

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”"

- Patrick Suskind

"Find something you love to do, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life."

- Harvey Mackay

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

- Alice Walker

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"“You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”"

- Trina Paulus

"Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit — the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well—being."

- Greg Anderson

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

- Stephen Covey

"Happiness is the highest form of health."

- Dalai Lama

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

- Calvin Coolidge

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way."

- Proverb

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.”"

- Banksy

"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."

- Joyce Chapman

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

- Kevin Kruse

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"“Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”"

- Sam Ewing

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

"By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well."

- Richard Branson

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

- Dale Carnegie

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."

- Dalai Lama

"Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others."

- Nathaniel Branden

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

"All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves."

- Jag Randhawa

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."

- Harvey Mackay

"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."

- Fred Allen

"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."

- Angela Ahrendts

"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."

- Meghan M. Biro

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

"Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole."

- Tracy Streckenbach

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

- Arnold Glasow

"Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company."

- Zig Ziglar

"Becoming is better than being."

- Carol Dweck

"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."

- Margaret Thatcher

"It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win."

- Emily Voyles

"Our bodies are our gardens — our wills are our gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life."

- William Londen

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."

- Mark Twain

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first."

- Mark Twain

"Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it."

- Heather Morgan

"The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital."

- Dr. Mark Hyman

"Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways."

- Bob Nelson

"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

- Paulo Coelho

"“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”"

- Eva Young

"Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make."

- Corita Kent

"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."

- Michael Lopp

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.”"

- Mario Andretti

"“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”"

- Emile Zola

"What I’ve realized is that confidence is a daily journey. We always think that confidence is a destination we must get to, but it’s a choice we make. I don’t think it’s something we ever really get to and stay at. And I think once you know that, it takes the pressure off."

- Jonathan van Ness

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

- Herman Melville

"I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face."

- Johnny Depp

"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."

- Pete Cashmore

"Forget the past and live in the present hour."

- Sarah Knowles Bolton

"The best way to improve your self-control is to see how and why you lose control."

- Kelly McGonigal

"If you dwell on the past or future, you will miss the moment."

- Rumi

"Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others – a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill."

- Thomas Kinkade

"The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity."

- Mitch Kapor

"“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”"

- Nelson Henderson

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

- Albert Einstein

"We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things."

- Herb Kelleher

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

- Brandon Sanderson

"“Light tomorrow with today.”"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it."

- Michael Josephson

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"No time for your health today, no health for your time tomorrow."

- Thibaut

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

"I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"I’m a survivor / I’m not gonna give up / I’m not gonna stop / I’m gonna work harder"

- Destiny’s Child

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

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"There does come a moment when you start saying, ‘I want more,’ and people look at you a little cross-eyed, because it’s loving what you have and also knowing you want to try for more. Sometimes that makes people uncomfortable."

- Ariana DeBose

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."

- Confucius

"If plan “A” doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan."

- Claire Cook

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

- Amanda Gorman

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Warren Buffett

"Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

- Neil Gaiman

"Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language."

- Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

"“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”"

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

"“The best way out is always through.”"

- Robert Frost

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"Woo girl, need to kick off your shoes / Got to take a deep breath, time to focus on you"

- Lizzo

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Dorothy West

"I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie

"Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

- Robert Orben

"Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any."

- Danielle Fotopoulis

"Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo."

- Jon Sinclair

"If plan ‘A’ doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan."

- Claire Cook

"Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary."

- Ross Simmonds

"Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’"

- Richard Carlson

"Whether I fail or succeed, it’s the going for it."

- Jonathan van Ness

"Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is. Prioritize yourself by making a habit of it."

- Andrena Sawyer

"When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts."

- Larry Ellison

"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

"The more I want to get something done the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

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

- Taraji P. Henson

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- E.E. Cummings

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."

- Steve Maraboli

"It ain’t over ’til it’s over."

- Yogi Berra

"You can get what you want or you can just get old."

- Billy Joel

"So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible."

- Norton Juster

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"Nothing becomes dynamic until it becomes specific."

- Dani Johnson

"Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life."

- Cheryl Strayed

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Whatever you do, always give 100% — unless you’re donating blood."

- Bill Murray

"“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”"

- Viggo Mortensen

"Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being."

- Eckhart Tolle

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”"

- Sydney Harris

"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

"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."

- Arthur Christopher Benson

"Don’t trust any one story of how to become successful."

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Warren Buffett

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

"I hate that word: ‘lucky.’ It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"If you look for perfection, you will never be content."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Naomi Judd

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Let nothing happen, just for a bit, let the minutes toll in the stunning air, let us lie on our beds like astronauts, hurtling through space and time."

- Olivia Laing

"She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements."

- Alice Munro

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day."

- A.A. Milne

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

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

- Toni Morrison

"When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?"

- Sydney Harris

"“Think of many things, do one.”"

- Portuguese proverb

"Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come."

- Mario Quintana

"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me."

- Michael Scott

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

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes."

"If you are not growing, you are dying."

- Unknown

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"You never know which people, places, and experiences are going to shift your perspective until after you've left them behind and had some time to look back."

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

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

"People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable."

"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction."

"“People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.”"

"Every second counts."

"“You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better.”"

"Don’t tell people your dreams. Show them."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"Stop waiting. The time will never be perfect. Things will always pop up. The best time to start is always now."

"One day or day one. You decide."