274 Inspirational Quotes About Overcoming Challenges

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"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 greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

- Christopher Reeve

"When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Maya Angelou

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

- Walt Disney

"No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities."

- Eric Hoffer

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Confucius

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

- Henry Ford

"I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Confucius

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Moliere

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

- Booker T. Washington

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."

- William Arthur Ward

"Adversity is the mother of progress."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Robert Schuller

"Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"The strongest people aren't always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose."

- Ashley Hodgeson

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish."

- Chuck Norris

"You're going to hit some rough patches. You're going to run into obstacles. People are going to say, 'You can't do it.' But you have to persevere. You have to keep working hard and believing in yourself."

- Chris Harris, Jr.

"We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something."

- Marta

"You show me anybody that's great in anything they do, I'll show you somebody that's persevered, demonstrated that mental toughness to overcome some obstacles and adversity."

- Sean McVay

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

- Thomas Edison

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

- R. G. Ingersoll

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

- Nelson Mandela

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles."

- Stephen Covey

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

- Peter Marshall

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

- George Addair

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

- John Quincy Adams

"There will always be obstacles and challenges that stand in your way. Building mental strength will help you develop resilience to those potential hazards so you can continue on your journey to success."

- Amy Morin

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

- B. C. Forbes

"Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be."

- Craig Sager

"Hope begins in the dark. The stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

- Anne Lamott

"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional."

- Roger Crawford

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

- Chinese Proverb

"Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have lain dormant in its absence."

- Herodotus

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

- Les Brown

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

- Aristotle

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot."

- Benny Lewis

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

- Ambrose Redmoon

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

- Dan Reeves

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

- Bruce Lee

"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid at the exact same time"

- Brené Brown

"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness."

- Herbie Hancock

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."

- Orison Swett Marden

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear hardship today."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

- George Washington

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

- Desmond Tutu

"My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it."

- Emery Lord

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"It takes facing obstacles to grow strong enough to overcome them."

- Daniel Dae Kim

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is."

- Norman Schwarzkopf

"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision."

- Winston S. Churchill

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

- African Proverb

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

- Lou Holtz

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

- Victor Hugo

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Jimmy Dean

"It's not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it."

- Lou Holtz

"Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models."

- Bill Bradley

"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."

- Albert Bandura

"Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."

- Susan Gale

"Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

- Napoleon Hill

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."

- Seneca

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic."

- Laini Taylor

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with."

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different."

- Alfred P. Sloan

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."

- E. Joseph Cossman

"Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats."

- Og Mandino

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

- Walter Elliot

"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change."

- Charles Darwin

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear."

- President Snow

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Earl Nightingale

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

- Epictetus

"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."

- Max Lerner

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."

- Kenji Miyazawa

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

- Og Mandino

"Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased."

- Joel Osteen

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."

- Christopher Columbus

"You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both."

- Brené Brown

"You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them."

- Ralph Marston

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up."

- Brené Brown

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

- Helen Keller

"He conquers who endures."

- Persius

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

- Samuel Johnson

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

- William Arthur Ward

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Confucius

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

- Socrates

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."

- Henry Ford

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

- Mark Twain

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

- Buddha

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

"I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by."

- Andre Agassi

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Remember, that of all the elements that comprise a human being, the most important, the most essential, the one that will sustain, transcend, overcome and vanquish obstacles is - Spirit!"

- Buddy Ebsen

"It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

- G.T. Shedd

"Don't give into your fears, if you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."

- Paulo Coelho

"So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong, and you'll finally see the truth, that a hero lies in you"

- Mariah Carey

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Helen Keller

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."

- Muhammad Ali

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted."

- David Bly

"Our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Ayn Rand

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves."

- Dolph Lundgren

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

- Henry Ford

"It's not the situation, but whether we react negatively or respond positively to the situation, that is important."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

- Plutarch

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

- Anais Nin

"There is no illusion greater than fear."

- Lao Tzu

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsley

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

- Duke Ellington

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Maya Angelou

"You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."

- Diana Ross

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."

- Japanese Proverb

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

- Horace

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Disney

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."

- Maya Angelou

"We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

- Marianne Williamson

"Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph."

- William Butler Yeats

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."

- Walter Scott

"To overcome obstacles, you need solutions."

- Thomas Tuchel

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Amplifying what is great within you will accelerate your life faster than fixing what you think 'limits' you."

- Brendon Burchard

"Achieving success is a challenge but so is struggling so you may as well choose success."

- Rob Liano

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes."

- Morris Mandel

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

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

- Hans Selye

"Change is inevitable, growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Walt Whitman

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Worry never accomplishes anything. When you have a problem, it is best to concentrate on the solution to that problem, not the problem itself."

- Thomas D. Willhite

"Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!"

- Tim Ferriss

"We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives."

- Maya Angelou

"There will be many obstacles in the pursuit of your dreams. I had long hours of training, balancing studies and badminton."

- P. V. Sindhu

"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality."

- John F. Kennedy

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing"

- Helen Keller

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

"Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off."

- Mary Lou Retton

"Work and you'll get what you need; work harder and you'll get what you want."

- Prabakaran Thirumalai

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."

- Scott Hamilton

"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

- Kakuzo Okakura

"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep."

- Vernon Howard

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Zig Ziglar

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature."

- Dennis Prager

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

- Ann Landers

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

- Bruce Lee

"The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage."

- Thucydides

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Winston Churchill

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

- Albert Einstein

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

- Atticus

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."

- James Cameron

"Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."

- John N. Mitchell

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

- Colin R. Davis

"If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."

- David Allen

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

- Mister Rogers

"It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives."

- Bethany Hamilton

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember-the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."

- Zig Ziglar

"Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."

- Joyce Meyer

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation"

- Brian Tracy

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Will Rogers

"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

"I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness."

- Marlee Matlin

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

- Coco Chanel

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to."

- Martin Freeman

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

- Peter Drucker

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent."

- Susan Cain

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- A.A. Milne

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only constant in life is change."

- Heraclitus

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Steve Jobs

"Silence is a source of great strength."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Winston Churchill

"A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone."

- Rick Riordan

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward."

- Steve Jobs

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

- Mother Teresa

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

"Courage is found in unlikely places."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory."

"Strength does not come from the body. It comes from the will."

"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough."

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

"Your attitude determines your direction."