100 Inspirational Quotes to Brighten Your Day and Boost Positivity

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Viola Davis

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- 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

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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

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

- Dalai Lama

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"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

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- George Eliot

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Confucius

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- George Addair

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Les Brown

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Buddha

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Aristotle

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Confucius

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

- Aesop

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Alice Morse Earle

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Lao Tzu

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

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

- Buddha

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Do it with passion or not at all."

- Rosa Nouchette Carey

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Maggie Kuhn

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- George Skolsky

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Happiness is not by chance but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Jodi Picoult

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

- Kobe Bryant

"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

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- Les Brown

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

- Joyce Meyer

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Jim Thompson

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Brooke Shields

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

- Tyler Perry

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Beyonce

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

- Laverne Cox

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

- Stephen King

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

- Maggie Kuhn

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Nick Saban

"Be yourself and people will like you."

- Jeff Kinney

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Matt Cameron

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Mae West

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

- Joel Osteen

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Walt Whitman

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Truman Capote

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."

- Taylor Swift

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Lady Gaga

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."

- Gabrielle Union

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Vivian Greene

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"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

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Aristotle

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Winston Churchill

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Shine like the whole universe is yours."

- Rumi

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Michelle Obama

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Seth Godin

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Helen Keller

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Leymah Gbowee

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Paulo Coelho

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

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

- Helen Keller

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

"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

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

"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

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

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

- William James

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"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

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

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

- Earl Nightingale

"Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking."

- Lee Ann Womack

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

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

- Albert Einstein

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

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

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steven Furtick

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Bill Gates

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Henry Ford

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Ayn Rand

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

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

- Pema Chodron

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordon

"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

"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

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"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

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

- Bill Bradley

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

- Vernon Howard

"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

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

- John Guare

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Danny Boyle

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

- Reba McEntire

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Robert Byrne

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Philip Appleman

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

- Albert Camus

"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

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

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

- Epictetus

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."

- Dave Carolan

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Kate Summers

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Warren Buffett

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- A. A. Milne

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Dita von Teese

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Constance Wu

"Leave no stone unturned."

- Euripides

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."

- Simone Biles

"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

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

- Mavis Staples

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

"Friends are the family we choose."

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Max Levchin

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"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

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more"

- Lord Byron

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Buddha

"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

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

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

"No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must be the ultimate believer in yourself!"

"Love is the only freedom in this world because it raises the soul to a sublime position that the laws and traditions of mankind cannot reach, and the laws and rulings of nature do not prevail over it."

"“The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon.”"

"If the moon can shine so bright and beautifully even in the darkest of hours , certainly, so can YOU"

"If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining."

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

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

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

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."

"For if we fall, who shall stand?"

"Dream is not that you see in sleep, dream is something that does not let you sleep."

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

"Erasers are made for those who are willing to correct their mistakes."

"You only fail when you stop trying and don’t worry about the mistakes because mistakes are the proof that you are trying."

"Don’t stress, do your best & forget the rest."

"Make the rest of your life, the best of your life."

"Never stop Learning as life never stops teaching."

"Do your best to be the best."

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

"Work Hard in Silence, let your success make the noise."

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

"This too shall pass"