100+ Inspirational Positive Life Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

- Les Brown

"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

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"The key to life when things get tough is to just keep moving. Just keep moving."

- Tyler Perry

"Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can."

- Vince Lombardi

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, "What are you gonna do about it?" I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me."

- Beyonce

"Believing you are unworthy of love and belonging—that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong—is deadly. Who you are is beautiful and amazing."

- Laverne Cox

"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

"You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Your attitude is critical to success. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work."

- Nick Saban

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Dr. Seuss

"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive."

- Matt Cameron

"You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try."

- Dolly Parton

"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."

- Michael Jordan

"Every strike brings me closer to a home run."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Albert Einstein

"Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"

- Bruce Lee

"You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Maya Angelou

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"

- Dolly Parton

"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Maya Angelou

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

- Dolly Parton

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Nelson Mandela

"Happiness is not by chance but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

- Kobe Bryant

"Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own."

- Michelle Obama

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

- Willie Nelson

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"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

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Tony Robbins

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

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

- Vivian Greene

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Lao Tzu

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Buddha

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Walt Whitman

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"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

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"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

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

- Edwin Elliot

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- George Eliot

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Robert Frost

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."

- Winston Churchill

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

- Buddha

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Confucius

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

"In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision."

- Dalai Lama

"Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day."

- Alice Morse Earle

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- David Brinkley

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

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

- George Lorimer

"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

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

- Theodore 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

"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

"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

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

- William James

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

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

- Warren Buffet

"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

"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

"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

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

- Buddha

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

- Robert Byrne

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

- Lewis Carroll

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."

- Anne Frank

"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

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Ruth Gordo

"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

"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

"Friends are the family we choose."

- Jennifer Aniston

"My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you."

- Mavis Staples

"Kindness is one thing you can’t give away. It always comes back."

- George Skolsky

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look."

- Jodi Picoult

"It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver."

- Betty White

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon."

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

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

- Naomi Judd

"A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

- Lucille Ball

"Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive."

- Jim Thompson

"Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door."

- Brooke Shields

"Be yourself and people will like you."

- Jeff Kinney

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

- Mae West

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

- E.E. Cummings

"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

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

- Erica Jong

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

"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

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

- Henry Ford

"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

"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

"Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"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 "Bear" Bryant

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

- Napoleon Hill

"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

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

"Shine like the whole universe is yours."

- Rumi

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

"Even miracles take a little time"

- The Fairy Godmother

"Just keep swimming"

- Dory

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl, The Minpins

"It’s a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon."

- Kermit the Frog, The Muppets

"Always let your conscience be your guide."

- Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream of coming true."

- Walt Disney

"Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world."

- Roald Dahl, Matilda

"The moment where you doubt you can fly, you cease for ever being able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"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

"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

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Pema Chodron

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Coco Chanel

"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

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

- Childish Gambino

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

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

- Kesha

"Do it with passion or not at all."

- Rosa Nouchette Carey

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- William Osler

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

- Walter Anderson

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

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Herman Melville

"Leave no stone unturned."

- Euripides

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

- Sofia Vergara

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

- Virginia Woolf

"Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

- Aristotle

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Philip Appleman

"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

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Margaret Atwood

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"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

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Albert Einstein

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Kate Summers

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Colin R. Davis

"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

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Dita Von Teese

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

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

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

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

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

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

"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."

"You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

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

"Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too."

"This too shall pass"

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."