100 Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Passion and Purpose

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

- Rumi

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

- Sarah Knowles Bolton

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

- Pele

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- T. Harv Eker

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Michael Scott

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Mario Quintana

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Jean-Luc Picard

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Rumi

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

- Ann Landers

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"Nothing becomes dynamic until it becomes specific."

- Dani Johnson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Corita Kent

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

- Michael Jordan

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Becoming is better than being."

- Carol Dweck

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Dani Johnson

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

- Elon Musk

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."

- Sammy Davis Jr

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Aristotle

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

- Lao Tzu

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."

- Anita Roddick

"If you have time to whine, then you have time to find a solution."

- Dee Dee Artner

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

- Henry Ford

"It's our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J. K. Rowling

"The only day to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"Luck is preparation meeting opportunity."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly."

- Bear Grylls

"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Confucius

"Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy."

- Stephen Covey

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Anne Sweeney

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

- David Allen

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

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

- Remi Witt

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

- Eric Thomas

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

- Trina Paulus

"Not knowing you can't do something is sometimes all it takes to do it."

- Ally Carter

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

- Alice Walker

"I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it."

- Johnny Depp

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

- Meister Eckhart

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

- Sophia Amoruso

"How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top."

- Yvon Chouinard

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

- Maya Angelou

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither."

- Alan Cohen

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest."

- Leo Babauta

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

- Cheryl Strayed

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

- President John Quincy Adams

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

- Ayn Rand

"To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn't make a difference in the world. I think that's just a horrible thing."

- John Skoll

"Work harder on you than everyone else and you will become unusually successful."

- Dani Johnson

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

"There's no abiding success without commitment."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Miguel De Unamuno

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Confucius

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Norton Juster

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

- Marianne Williamson

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

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Herb Kelleher

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Kelly McGonigal

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

- Erin Cummings

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

- Robert Greene

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

- Claire Cook

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

- William Faulkner

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Scott Belsky

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

- Harriet Stowe

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Stephen King

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

- Jeff Bezos

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

- Barry Werner

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

- Eminem

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

- Johnny Depp

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

- Farrah Gray

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Elon Musk

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

- Mitch Kapor

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

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Sydney Harris

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Ruth Gordon

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Herman Melville

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

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

- George Eliot

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Maya Angelou

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

- Bruce Lee

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

- Kevyn Aucoin

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

- Ben Okri

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"

- Robert H. Schuller

"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."

- Les Brown

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

- Swami Sivananda

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Aesop

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Francis of Assisi

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Walt Whitman

"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

"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

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

- Aristotle

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

- Nelson Mandela

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

"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

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Og Mandino

"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

"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

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"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

"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

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"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

"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

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Confucius

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

- Ambrose Redmoon

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

- Buddha

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Walt Disney

"Your 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

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

"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

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

- Annette Funicello

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Zendaya

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Edwin Elliot

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Danny Boyle

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"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

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Charles Dickens

"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 best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Stephanie Perkins

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Demi Lovato

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

- Robert Browning

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

- Carol Burnett

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

- ANNE FRANK

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"

- Paul J. Meyer

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

- Ronald Reagan

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

- Isaac Newton

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Winston Churchill

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."

- Ingrid Bergman

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Mark Twain

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

- John Lennon

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

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

- Robert Frost

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- William James

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

- Alice Walker

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."

- Lady Gaga

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

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

- Amy Poehler

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Walter Anderson

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

- Max Levchin

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

- Lao Tzu

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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