100+ Inspirational Celebrity Quotes to Ignite Your Passion and Drive

"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

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Confucius

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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 our lives is to be happy."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Liane Cardes

"You’re time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

"I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that’s easier said than done but keep trying."

- Beyonce Knowles

"I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life… and that’s gotten stronger as I’ve gotten older. I’ve always felt if I don’t just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to – work harder than anybody else."

- Ryan Reynolds

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

- Tom Hanks

"There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits."

- Michael Phelps

"Believe and work hard, and all your dreams will come true."

- Lady Gaga

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

- Walt Disney

"You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win."

- LL Cool J

"It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Steve Jobs

"Be humble, hungry, and always be the hardest worker in the room."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

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

- Thomas Edison

"Anything’s possible if you’ve got have enough nerve."

- J.K. Rowling

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense."

- Thomas Edison

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Thomas Edison

"You’ll always miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"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

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be."

- John Wooden

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Winston Churchill

"My teacher said to me, ‘If you’re going to fail, fail gloriously.’ I’ve never forgotten it. You learn a lot from your mistakes. You have to take risks and make mistakes. It’s terrifying, but it’s the only way you will learn and improve."

- Cate Blanchett

"There are no mistakes, only opportunities."

- Tina Fey

"I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."

- Sylvester Stallone

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader."

- Dolly Parton

"Your imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are. So just be yourself, love yourself for who you are and just keep going."

- Demi Lovato

"Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job."

- Chris Pine

"If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That’s what I was always told as a kid, and it’s worked for me so far!"

- Justin Timberlake

"When it’s obvious that the goals cannot be reachecd, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

- Confucius

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

- Socrates

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see miraculous in the common."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beware false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

- Lao Tzu

"The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job."

- Zig Ziglar

"Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity… to rise."

- Kobe Bryant

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

- Robert Frost

"Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent."

- Steve Martin

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"I wish I could tell you it gets better, but it doesn’t get better. You get better."

- Joan Rivers

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

- Napoleon Hill

"You build on failure. You use it as a steppingstone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

- Johnny Cash

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Ken Robinson

"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

- Charles F. Kettering

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

- George Eliot

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."

- John C. Maxwell

"There are no failures–just experiences and your reactions to them."

- Tom Krause

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."

- George Bernard Shaw

"When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed, and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."

- Richard Branson

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

- Paulo Coelho

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist."

- Chris Hardwick

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

- Lance Armstrong

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

- Henry Ford

"I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at."

- Louis C. K.

"I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time, but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed."

- Dolly Parton

"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Sumner Redstone

"Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it."

- Mia Hamm

"When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel."

- Eloise Ristad

"What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?"

- John Green

"I'm not here to be perfect, I'm here to be real."

- Lady Gaga

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

- Allen Saunders

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is like a bird with broken wings that cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

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

- Aristotle

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John R. Wooden

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

- Epictetus

"That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind."

- Neil Armstrong

"Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

- J.M. Power

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- George Eliot

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."

- Arthur Ashe

"Your most important investment is in yourself."

- Warren Buffett

"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

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ayn Rand

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

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

- George Addair

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

- Confucius

"You become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Albert Einstein

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

- Buddhist quote

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"Try and fail, but never fail to try."

- Jared Leto

"I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up."

- Michael Caine

"If I was going to be successful, I had to be successful with myself. I couldn’t be successful doing what other people were doing…The worst thing to be is as successful as someone else. That’s a very difficult thing to upkeep and very tiring."

- Jay-Z

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

- Jennifer Aniston

"The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead."

- Jack

"Be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop."

- Brad Pitt

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

- Geena Davis

"If you live in the past that’s depression, and if you live in the future that’s anxiety. So you have no choice but to live in the present."

- Sarah Silverman

"The important thing is to realize that no matter what people’s opinions may be, they’re only just that – people’s opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that."

- Mary J. Blige

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

"I think once we let our ego go, [we] just get over the fact that everybody’s not going to like us—and that’s OK! Because there will be people who do dig it. And even if they don’t, do you? You get one life. Who cares what everyone else thinks?"

- Kelly Clarkson

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Bruce Lee

"Giving up is the only sure way to fail."

- Gena Showalter

"If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail…it takes backbone to lead the life you want"

- Richard Yates

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

- Denis Waitley

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

- Charles F. Kettering

"Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing."

- K. Rowling

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others."

- Amelia Earhart

"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."

- Arianna Huffington

"You have to be able to accept failure to get better."

- LeBron James

"I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about."

- Emma Watson

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."

- Benjamin Franklin

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. So I did 10 times more work."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Henry Ford

"With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die."

- Criss Jami

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The only thing that feels better than winning is winning when nobody thought you could."

- Hank Aaron

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

- President John Quincy Adams

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- 14th Dalai Lama

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

- Steve Jobs

"The best way to find out what you want in life is to try a lot of things."

- Oprah Winfrey

"In order to be truly happy, you must pursue your dreams and goals."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up everything you have."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Don't let anyone tell you what you can't do. Follow your dreams and persist."

- Barack Obama

"Life is what we make it and how we make it – whether we realize it or not."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"You've got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Will Rogers

"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me; just be my friend."

- Albert Camus

"A lot of people give up just before they’re about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one."

- Chuck Norris

"It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy."

- Jane Fonda

"Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of."

- Angelina Jolie

"Your regrets aren’t what you did, but what you didn’t do. So take every opportunity."

- Cameron Diaz

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

- Drew Barrymore

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me."

- Denzel Washington

"Be happy with being you. Love your flaws, own your quirks."

- Ariana Grande

"That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure."

- Madonna

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die."

- Serena Williams

"If there’s any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color."

- Johnny Depp

"I’ve learned it’s important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is."

- Ryan Gosling

"I’m continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing."

- Ashton Kutcher

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"I’ve had a great deal of suffering in my life… I’ve had a lot of things happen to me that I don’t talk about in the press. I’ve had a lot of really heartbreaking, difficult things. But all of those things have strengthened my resolve to make the best of my life."

- Gwyneth Paltrow

"Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes."

- George Clooney

"We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams really do come true."

- Katie Holmes

"You don’t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams."

- Katy Perry

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

"Smile and let everyone know that today, you’re a lot stronger than you were yesterday."

- Drake

"I’m a big believer in accepting yourself and not really worrying about it."

- Jennifer Lawrence

"All the people who knock me down, only inspire me to do better."

- Selena Gomez

"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

- Taylor Swift

"Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there’s an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen."

- Dax Shepard

"Whatever you do, do it completely. Don’t do it half-arsed."

- Christian Bale

"Take a stand for what’s right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you’ll be part of something larger and bigger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is extremely cool."

- Samuel Jackson

"Life is tough, but you just have to just get out of bed, get out and do it."

- Anthony Hopkins

"Don’t listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it’s what you want to do and it’s within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life."

- Jake Gyllenhaal

"I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Paulo Coelho

"The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit."

- Morgan Freeman

"You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That’s what I’ve really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard."

- Chris Gronkowski

"The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving."

- Tyler Perry

"Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love."

- Emma Watson

"Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary."

- Uta Hagen

"Why am I doing the work I’m doing? Why am I friends with this person? Am I living the best life I possibly can? Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt but I don’t see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing."

- Joseph Gordon-Levitt

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready."

- Bruno Mars

"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

"Don’t become something just because someone else wants you to – or because it’s easy. You won’t be happy."

- Kristen Wiig

"‘May the Force be with you’ is charming but it’s not important. What’s important is that you become the Force – for yourself and perhaps for other people."

- Harrison Ford

"I’m always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That’s the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body."

- Clint Eastwood

"Being unique and different was a really good thing. When I walked into my agent’s office for the first time, they looked at me and said, ‘Wow, we have nobody on our books like you.’ And they signed me on my second day here."

- Rebel Wilson

"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials."

- Bruce Lee

"If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain’t enough!"

- Shel Silverstein

"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

"Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin."

- Tori Amos

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

- Mae West

"Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

"Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it and never letting it make you feel less than your best."

- Jessica Alba

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

"Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream?"

- Joaquin Phoenix

"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."

- Keanu Reeves

"Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live."

- Kevin Bacon

"Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can’t do by yourself."

- Meghan Markle

"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

- Buddha

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"The phoenix must burn to emerge."

- Janet Fitch

"It’s the choice. You have to wake up every day and say, ‘There’s no reason today can’t be the best day of my life’."

- Blake Lively

"There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can’t go through life obsessing about what might have been."

- Hugh Jackman

"My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom."

- Miley Cyrus

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

- Jimi Hendrix

"A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him."

- Elmer G. Letterman

"If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got."

- James P. Lewis

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open."

- Frank Zappa

"Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity."

- Will Smith

"If you have the opportunity to play this game called life, you have to appreciate every moment."

- Kanye West

"Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this."

- Celine Dion

"People ask me sometimes… When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is, When there are nine."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it."

- Robin Williams

"I'm not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

- Alexandre Dumas

"It’s amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly, and authoritatively demand it."

- Meryl Streep

"We all create our own reality by the choices we make."

- Cuba Gooding Jr.

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Robert Frost

"Life is short and it is here to be lived."

- Katharine Hepburn

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"The old man and the sea is a story about the triumph of the human spirit."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Herman Melville

"Always remember, your focus determines your reality."

- George Lucas

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

- James Cameron

"Rome wasn’t built in a day."

- John Heywood

"Start before you’re ready."

- Steven Pressfield

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"Be nice to people on the way up, because you may meet them on the way down."

- Jimmy Durante

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

- Jim Rohn

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

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

- Amelia Earhart

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless."

- Neal Shusterman

"We are all failures–at least the best of us are."

- M. Barrie

"Don’t find fault, find a remedy: anyone can complain."

- Henry Ford

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Anne Frank

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

- John F. Kennedy

"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Life is a menu so remember whoever and whatever you order for your life is what’s gonna be delivered to your table."

- Tyrese

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Albert Camus

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be."

- Eckhart Tolle

"In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us."

- Janet Jackson

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mae West

"If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there."

- Lewis Carroll

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"Let us never forget that medicine is for people. It is not for profit, it is not for status, it is not for self."

- Albert Schweitzer

"The Wright brothers didn’t have a wind tunnel to test their flying machines. They built a kite and got to work."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

- Dan Millman

"You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it."

- Robin Williams

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."

- Charlie Chaplin

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

- William Shakespeare

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Remember that no matter how cool you think you may be, you’re not cool enough to look down on anyone… ever."

- Paul Walker

"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness."

- Confucius

"I'm not a self-made man. I've had a lot of help."

- Stan Lee

"After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don’t know how you’re going to be in six months, you don’t know what you’re going to want, what you’re going to need."

- Audrey Tautou

"Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made."

- Matt Damon

"Whatever art form you’re working in, it’s crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it."

- Omar Epps

"I didn’t get to where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow."

- Ron White

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

- William Shakespeare

"By the time you’re 80 years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it."

- George Burns

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

- Lily Tomlin

"If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it."

- W.C. Fields

"Without wonder and insight, acting is just a business. With it, it becomes creation."

- Bette Davis

"Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid."

- John Wayne

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

- Fred Rogers, host of “Mister Rogers Neighborhood”

"If life gives you lemons make some kind of fruity juice."

- Conan O'Brien

"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."

- Bill Gates

"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it."

- George Orwell

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

- William Shakespeare

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."

- Jim Carrey

"Knowledge is power."

- Francis Bacon

"A small leak will sink a great ship."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."

- Tom Stoppard

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

- Lucille Ball

"Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things."

- George Carlin

"One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless."

- Liz Smith

"Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger."

- Channing Tatum

"You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow."

- Jack Black

"After 30, a body has a mind of its own."

- Bette Midler

"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back."

- Eugene O'Neill

"It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

"Life is a beautiful journey, that is meant to be embraced to the fullest every day."