100+ Inspirational Quotes and Images About Life to Uplift Your Spirit

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Herman Melville

"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- W.P. Kinsella

"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 a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

- Danny Boyle

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

- Thomas Edison

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

"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

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Confucius

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Sofia Vergara

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Kesha

"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

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

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Edwin Elliot

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Margaret Atwood

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Will Rogers

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Duke Ellington

"You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

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

- Serena Williams

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Henry Ford

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

"Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

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

- Nicole Kidman

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Winston Churchill

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"

- Max Levchin

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Maya Angelou

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Drew Barrymore

"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- John Lennon

"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Kahlil Gibran

"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"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

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Albert Einstein

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

- Winston Churchill

"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

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I– I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Vivian Greene

"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

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

- Samuel Beckett

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour."

- Aristotle

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Confucius

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Buddha

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"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 harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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. This is your moment. Own it."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Winston Churchill

"Saying it is impossible to live without failing at something is impossible. Unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

- J.K. Rowling

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Robert Schuller

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Albert Camus

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t."

- John Green

"I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

- Charles Dickens

"We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim."

- R.M. Drake

"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."

- Glenn Turner

"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live."

- Auguste Rodin

"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery."

- Charlie Chaplin

"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish."

- Charlie Chaplin

"We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

- Bob Ross

"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing.  Making your unknown known is the important thing."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- John A. Shedd

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

- Albert Einstein

"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us."

- Serena Williams

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."

- Princess Diana

"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans."

- Allen Saunders

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

- Dolly Parton

"I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life."

- Kerry Washington

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from."

- Seth Godin

"Someone once told me that ‘time’ is a predator that stalks us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because it will never come again."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"The Pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

- John Maxwell

"Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, God-like, feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us. It’s very simple. This is what I believe, and I’m willing to die for it."

- Will Smith

"I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try."

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."

- Mark Twain

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better."

- Stephen King

"There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Charles Darwin

"Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength."

- G.D. Anderson

"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves."

- Mary Wollstonecraft

"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult."

- Melinda Gates

"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in our absence."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as being quiet. In fact, often times, the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"I don’t want to be thought of as the ‘girl who was shot by the Taliban’ but the ‘girl who fought for education. This is the cause I want to devote my life."

- Malala Yousafzai

"The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking."

- Malala Yousafzai

"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."

- Coco Chanel

"There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

- Jane Austen

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Jane Goodall

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

- Gloria Steinem

"Don’t think about making women fit the world – think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

"A strong woman understands that gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts."

- Nancy Rathburn

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will."

- Amy Tenney

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me."

- Simone de Beauvoir

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

- Dr. Seuss

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

- Charlotte Brontë

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- William James

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Jimmy Dean

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

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

- William James

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

- Winston Churchill

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."

- Anne Frank

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

- A.A. Milne

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions."

- 14th Dalai Lama

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- George Eliot

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- Mae West

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- William Osler

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

- Robert Byrne

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

- Rose Kennedy

"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 Bennett Henry

"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

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Albert Camus

"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

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

- Seneca

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Thomas Edison

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Tim Notke

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

"Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers."

- Socrates

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

- Henry Ford

"We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us."

- Virginia Satir

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Stephen King

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."

- David Allen

"There is no traffic jam along the extra mile."

- Roger Staubach

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

- Denis Waitley

"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much."

- Joan Collins

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

- C.S. Lewis

"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Stanley McChrystal

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Ayn Rand

"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."

- Denis Waitley

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Colin Powell

"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare."

- Walt Disney

"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go."

- Sheila Murray Bethel

"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."

- Hermann Hesse

"We should always be asking ourselves: “Is this something that is, or is not, in my control?”"

- Epictetus

"When you feel overwhelmed, start eliminating all the non-essential things from your life. Clarity brings calm."

- Darius Foroux

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency."

- Natalie Goldberg

"If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing."

- Ernest Hemingway

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To me, leadership is not about necessarily being the loudest in the room, but instead being the bridge, or the thing that is missing in the discussion and trying to build a consensus from there."

- Jacinda Ardern

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

- President John Quincy Adams

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"Focus your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little life of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

- Barack Obama

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

- George Orwell

"Remember, openness always means risks. To begin something new, you need to get rid of the old. And most of all, nothing should be taken for granted, everything is possible."

- Angela Merkel

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

- Sylvia Plath

"When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you’re not saying ‘no’ to yourself."

- Paulo Coelho

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."

- Maya Angelou

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style."

- Maya Angelou

"I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

- Maya Angelou

"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 that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away."

- Stephen Hawking

"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Anne Frank

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

- Anne Frank

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible."

- Rodolfo Costa

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

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

- James Cameron

"It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it."

- Seneca

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

- William James

"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

- Seneca

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

- Seneca

"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."

- T.S. Eliot

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be."

- Lao Tzu

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow."

- Lao Tzu

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."

- Amit Ray

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

- Marcus Aurelius

"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."

- Albert Einstein

"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."

- Jane Austen

"When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen."

- Drake

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it."

- Alistair Cook

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Chinese Proverb

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

- Winston S. Churchill

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"When placed in command, take charge."

- Norman Schwarzkopf

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."

- François Rabelais

"If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all."

- Noam Chomsky

"Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you."

- Malcolm Forbes

"The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary."

- Gloria Steinem

"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."

- Spinoza

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

- Aristotle

"To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit"

- Kahlil Gibran

"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Viola Davis

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

- Charles Dickens

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

- William Shakespeare

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Marie Curie

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

- Oscar Wilde

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before."

- Shinzo Abe

"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."

- Cicely Tyson

"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

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice."

- Helen Keller

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Mark Cuban

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"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 know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

- Herman Melville

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

- Mae Jemison

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

- Mikhail Gorbachev

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

- Charles Dickens

"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."

- Elaine Welteroth

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

- Loretta Lynn

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

- Charles Bukowski

"You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself, there’s nothing wrong with being ambitious."

- Angela Merkel

"The fear of being laughed at makes coward of us all."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"[My mother] told me that fear was not an option. I was always told that women are stronger, so I believed it."

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Carol Burnett

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn. We are filled with popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up."

- Gloria Steinem

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

- Indira Gandhi

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

- Mother Theresa

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."

- Grace Kelly

"A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink."

- Gina Carey

"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction."

- Malcolm Gladwell

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

- Truman Capote

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you."

- Lupita Nyong'o

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Half woman, half warrior. Delicate and strong."

- R.H. Sin

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

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

- Lily Tomlin

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal."

- Naomi Osaka

"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Lindsey Vonn

"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

"One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late."

- Agatha Christie

"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."

- Walt Disney

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

"Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"With each generation, women’s ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished."

- Cathy McMorris Rodgers

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you."

- Gabrielle Union

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."

- Anne Sexton

"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."

- Bill Cosby

"And you, you scare people because you are whole all by yourself."

- Lauren Alex Hooper

"All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience."

- Mary Wollstonecraft

"To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, this is the most important thing."

- Alicia Keys

"Everyone is a complicated human being, and everyone is strong and weak and funny and scared."

- Laverne Cox

"You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served."

- Nina Simone

"merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

"As those move easiest who have learned to dance."

- Alexander Pope

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood."

- Peter Handke

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Anne Heche

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- James Caan

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

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

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

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

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

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit."

"It’s kind of fun to do the impossible."

"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."

"Healing is not linear."

"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everybody else."

- Unknown