100+ Inspirational Quotes for Students to Ignite Motivation and Success

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

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

- John Wooden

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

"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."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Winston Churchill

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- A.A. Milne

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

- Zig Ziglar

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo

"A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

- Albert Einstein

"Learning is never done without errors and defeat."

- Vladimir Lenin

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

- Babe Ruth

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

- Frederick Douglass

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- B.B. King

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."

- Chinese Proverb

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

- Derek Bok

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

"Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder."

- Mason Cooley

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Walt Disney

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated."

- R Collier

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself."

- Chinese proverb

"Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Confucius

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Edward Young

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"I think it's possible to ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To be an overachiever you have to be an over-believer."

- Dabo Swinney

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"If you don’t build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs."

- Tony Gaskin

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan but also believe."

- Anatole France

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them."

- Mark Twain

"When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose."

- Oprah

"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

- Shiv Khera

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

- Winston Churchill

"Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

- John Maxwell

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Winston Churchill

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things."

- Joe Paterno

"I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but by how high he bounces when he hits the bottom."

- George S. Patton

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

- John Quincy Adams

"Follow your dreams, believe in yourself, and don’t give up."

- Rachel Corrie

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, and dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."

- Chantal Sutherland

"To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching."

- Stephen Curry

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding on the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would be amazed."

- Thomas Edison

"Your talents and abilities will improve over time, but for that, you have to start."

- Martin Luther King

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

- Gail Sheehy

"The best investment you can make is in yourself."

- Warren Buffett

"Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"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

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

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

- Molière

"When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything."

- John Wooden

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Ann Landers

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

- Tim Notke

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Gale Sayers

"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."

- Les Brown

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Confucius

"Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way."

- Brandy Johnson

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

- Mark Twain

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Walter Elliot

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

- Henry Ford

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Set tough goals and do not stop until you get there."

- Bo Jackson

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Albert Einstein

"Working hard is important, but there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself."

- Harry Potter

"Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do."

- Benjamin Spock

"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning."

- Bruce Lee

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

- Steve Jobs

"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."

- Robert M. Hutchins

"If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place."

- Nora Roberts

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference."

- Lou Holtz

"Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for ‘just getting the job done.’ Excel!"

- Tom Hopkins

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything."

- Vince Lombardi

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

"Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success."

- Virat Kohli

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

- Gail Devers

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

- Christopher Reeve

"Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin."

- Victor Kiam

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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."

- Pelé

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."

- Michelangelo

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

- Stephen Hawking

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Sir Edmund Hillary

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

- Les Brown

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."

- Paul J. Meyer

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

- John F. Kennedy

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give."

- E.O. Wilson

"True education is about getting the best out of oneself."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Learning without thinking is useless. Think without learning, dangerous."

- Confucius

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- e.e. cummings

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

- George Eliot

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Lao Tzu

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Bo Bennett

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

- Peter Drucker

"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The only thing that stands between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision, a plan, and the courage to chase it relentlessly."

- Walt Disney

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward."

- Conrad Hall

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

- William James

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

- George Addair

"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Sir Edmund Hillary

"everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Walt Disney

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Elon Musk

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

- Zig Ziglar

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

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

- Charles Kingsleigh

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Bo Jackson

"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

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

- Confucius

"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."

- Ariana Huffington

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

- George Addair

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Michael Jordan

"Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work."

- Usain Bolt

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you."

- BB King

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Albert Einstein

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

- George Washington Carver

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Epicurus

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

"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

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Mark Twain

"Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning."

- Anton Chekhov

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Henry Ford

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

- Christopher Germer

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- George Eliot

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Les Brown

"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

"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

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Self-discipline is self-caring."

- M. Scott Peck

"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

"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

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

- William James

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."

- Swati Sharma

"The only way to grow is to challenge yourself."

- Ashley Tisdale

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Ross Simmonds

"You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday."

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Paul Bryant

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- David Ogilvy

"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

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Henry Ford

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Helen Keller

"Education is something we have to keep pursuing day after day."

- Premier Brian Gallant

"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life."

- Frederick W. Robertson

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

"Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves."

- Paul Solarz

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

- Jimmy Dean

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."

- Charles Darwin

"The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Dale Carnegie

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

- Ken Blanchard

"We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust, and care for each other."

- Vala Afshar

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

- Pamela Vaull Starr

"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Dalai Lama

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best."

- Robin Sharma

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself."

- Michael F. Staley

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself."

- Denis Waitley

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"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

"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."

- Virginia Burden

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Winston Churchill

"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."

- Émile Coué

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

- Aristotle

"Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

"The key to success is often the ability to adapt."

- Anthony Brandt

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

- James A. Froude

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"The only way that we can grow is if we change."

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream."

- Tommy Hilfiger

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited."

- Plutarch

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

- Albert Einstein

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

- Richard Steele

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

- Harry S Truman

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement."

- Helmut Schmidt

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."

- James Cash Penney

"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

- Ed Cole

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- E.E. Cummings

"When the student is ready, the master appears."

- Buddhist Proverb

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."

- James Cash Penney

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

- Jhumpa Lahiri

"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

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Will Rogers

"You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails."

- Thomas S. Monson

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Confucius Kongzi

"Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good."

- Minor Myers

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too."

- Patrick Ness

"Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion."

- Seth Godin

"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B."

- James Yorke

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"By perseverance, the snail reached the ark."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable."

- Drew Houston

"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."

- Theodore N. Vail

"There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition."

- Steven J. Ross

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it."

- Washington Irving

"All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes."

- Guy Kawasaki

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of an effort of intelligence."

- John Ruskin

"Change your thoughts and you will change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win."

- Max McKeown

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"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

"The man well prepared for the struggle has achieved half a triumph."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"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

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Use all your efforts, even when the possibilities play against you."

- Arnold Palmer

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"It’s the pain and failure that teaches you the best lesson in life and motivates you to rebuild yourself and stand again with a robust faith."

- Priti Chaubey

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."

- Zig Ziglar

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

- Wayne Dyer

"Through hard work, perseverance, and faith in God, you can live your dreams."

- Ben Carson

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Leymah Gbowee

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

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

- Childish Gambino

"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

"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

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- John Wooden

"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

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top."

- O.J. Simpson

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

- Steve Furtick

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Arianna Huffington

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

- Walter Bagehot

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter."

- Francis Chan

"Books are dangerous. The best ones should be labeled with “This could change your life”."

- Helen Exley

"Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age, is that of practicing it."

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"If you do not go to the end, why start?"

- Joe Namath

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

- Mark Twain

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want."

- Kevin Ngo

"I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care."

- Lou Holtz

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- Albus Dumbledore

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Drake

"I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."

- Jim Carrey

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Warren Buffet

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

- A. A. Milne

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"Flexibility is the key to stability."

- John Wooden

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries."

- Rene Descartes

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Walter Anderson

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Roseanne Barr

"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

"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

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

- Japanese Proverb

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Epictetus

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Alan Watts

"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

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

- Cindy Gallop

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

- Plato

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."

- Victor Hugo

"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

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest of the past centuries."

- Rene Descartes

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

- Kakuzo Okakura

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later."

- Bob Goff

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"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

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart."

- Omid Kordgstani

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

- Helen Keller

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

"Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask."

- Albus Dumbledore

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Warren Buffett

"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."

- Swedish Proverb

"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

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

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

"A little progress each day adds up to big results."

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."

"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference."

"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."

"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."

- Unknown

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

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

"Your time is now."

"You're never too young to dream big."