100+ Inspirational Quotes for Success in Life: Wisdom to Motivate Your Journey

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard."

- Serena Williams

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

"Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- George Lorimer

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

- Brian Tracy

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Confucius

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"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 learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Confucius

"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

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

- Tim Notke

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Bo Jackson

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

- Mark Twain

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ayn Rand

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

- Ray Goforth

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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

"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

"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 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

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Aristotle

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

- Seneca

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

- Frank Ocean

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

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

- Samuel Beckett

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Stephen King

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

- James Cameron

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Your life only gets better when you get better."

- Brian Tracy

"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."

- Brian Tracy

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The time is always right to do what is right."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

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

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Les Brown

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

"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

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Joan Collins

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

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Colin Powell

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- President John Quincy Adams

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

- Barack Obama

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

- Sylvia Plath

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Childish Gambino

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"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

"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

"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

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

"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

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"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

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Mark Twain

"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

"Jesus has enough, is enough, and will be enough."

- Louie Giglio

"Worship is when we give God His breath back."

- Louie Giglio

"God doesn’t call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world."

- Louie Giglio

"Don’t dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God’s all-sufficiency."

- Louie Giglio

"There’s no doubt we were unworthy, but we were never worthless. Big difference."

- Louie Giglio

"If only everyone could know we’ve been created by and for God! If only we could all comprehend that we’re precious to Him, housing mirrored souls designed to reflect His glory."

- Louie Giglio

"Every Christian became a missionary the moment God breathed his Spirit into him or her."

- Louie Giglio

"Worship is our response to what we value most. As a result, worship fuels our actions, becoming the driving force of all we do."

- Louie Giglio

"The Gospel is not about going from bad to good, it’s about going from dead to alive!"

- Louie Giglio

"Life only works when Jesus is everything and we are fully submitted to Him."

- Louie Giglio

"You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare your allegiance, to unleash your affection, to exalt something or someone above all else. So don’t waste your worship on some little god, squandering your birthright on idols made only with human imagination. Guard your worship. And carefully evaluate all potential takers."

- Louie Giglio

"This is the residue of sin on planet earth. Things are broken. People are hurting. The night is here. Darkness is upon us. Yet shining in the night is a Savior, and He has come to shine on you."

- Louie Giglio

"But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self – a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live."

- Louie Giglio

"God didn’t say, ‘Be still and feel that I am God,’ He said, ‘Be still and know’."

- Louie Giglio

"Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair."

- Louie Giglio

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Carol Burnett

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Robert Frost

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like."

- Mike Gafka

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

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"When you change what you believe is possible, you change what becomes possible."

- Alex Banayan

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph."

- Zig Ziglar

"Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently."

- Marie Forleo

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Conrad Hilton

"The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration."

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything."

- Warren Buffett

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t; it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?"

- Brian Tracy

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- Maya Angelou

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

"The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you."

- Brian Tracy

"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

- Michael Phelps

"It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it."

- Sue Hadfield

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

- John Wooden

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

- Winston Churchill

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Tina Turner

"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Maya Angelou

"Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible."

- Henry Ford

"If something stands between you and your success, move it."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals."

- Jameela Jamil

"I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them."

- Edmund Hillary

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference."

- Steve Jobs

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all, confidence in ourselves."

- Marie Curie

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

- Confucius

"Fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success."

- Michael Jordan

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

"You can only become accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Robert Byrne

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver

"There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can’t be done ... and the ones who just do it."

- Hoda Kotb

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Robin Williams

"There is no failure except failure to serve one’s purpose."

- Henry Ford

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."

- John F. Kennedy

"I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all."

- Simone Biles

"If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress."

- Barack Obama

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"A strong and wise people will study its own failures no less than its triumphs, for there is wisdom to be learned from the study of both, of the mistake as well as of the success."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Blake Lively

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"Passion first and everything will fall into place."

- Holly Holm

"Do not ignore your intuition. There is an infinite intelligence within you; let it be your guiding light."

- Cleo Wade

"To me, fearless doesn’t mean you’re completely unafraid, and it doesn’t mean that you’re bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway."

- Taylor Swift

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

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship."

- Louie Giglio

"God’s plans for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day."

- Louie Giglio

"You don’t have to know everything about the mountain in front of you to take the next step."

- Louie Giglio

"Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal."

- Louie Giglio

"God’s purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His."

- Louie Giglio

"Don’t overcomplicate God’s will. Just stay connected to Jesus. Love Him. Look into His eyes. He will lead. Follow. Repeat."

- Louie Giglio

"God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story."

- Louie Giglio

"You never lose by giving it all to Jesus."

- Louie Giglio

"To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working."

- Louie Giglio

"Faithfully carry what God has put in your hands right now. This is God’s will."

- Louie Giglio

"Christ didn’t die just so you could make it to heaven; He lives so you can make it through earth!"

- Louie Giglio

"It’s a big world. Don’t get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith."

- Louie Giglio

"Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you’re not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives."

- Louie Giglio

"Even if we don’t see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes, and orchestrating His plans and purposes."

- Louie Giglio

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Mel Robbins

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

- Leymah Gbowee

"Don’t follow your passion, but always bring it with you."

- Mike Rowe

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

- Drake

"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"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

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

- Nicole Kidman

"To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage."

- Confucius

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

- Aristotle Onassis

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Dolly Parton

"For the secret of human existence lies not only in living but in knowing what to live for."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

- Ruth Gordon

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

- Angela Merkel

"The organizations that succeed realize that offering a remarkable product with a great story is more important and more profitable than doing what everyone else is doing just a bit better."

- Seth Godin

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Charlotte Brontë

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Laird Hamilton

"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

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Pema Chodron

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

- Henry C. Link

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

- Winston Churchill

"There isn’t time—so brief is life—for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving—and but an instant, so to speak, for that."

- Mark Twain

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- David Brinkley

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

- Emily Dickinson

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

- Henry James

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Mae Jemison

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Roger Staubach

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

- Lucille Ball

"When placed in command, take charge."

- Norman Schwarzkopf

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

- Winston Churchill

"Change the game, don’t let the game change you."

- Macklemore

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Stephen Covey

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

"A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."

- Thomas Edison

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

- Marie Curie

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Winston Churchill

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- George Eliot

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Helen Keller

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

- John Wooden

"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.

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Socrates

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Stanley McChrystal

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Angela Merkel

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Sheila Murray Bethel

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Drake

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

- Alistair Cook

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Rodolfo Costa

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

- Virginia Satir

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

- Ralph Nader

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

- Stephen King

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Indira Gandhi

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- David Allen

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Warren Buffett

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Amy Tenney

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

- Anne Frank

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

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

- Mae West

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

- Chinese Proverb

"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."

- Marvin Gaye

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

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

- Jacinda Ardern

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

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Maya Angelou

"Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Kesha

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Edwin Elliot

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

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing."

- Martha Stewart

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

- G. K. Chesterton

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Ingrid Bergman

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Simone de Beauvoir

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Spinoza

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- George Orwell

"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."

- Michael Jackson

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Gloria Steinem

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Gina Carey

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Dave Carolan

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit"

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Nancy Rathburn

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

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Malcolm Forbes

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Lauren Alex Hooper

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Sofia Vergara

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

- Dita von Teese

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Margaret Atwood

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Anne Sexton

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Noam Chomsky

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

- Gloria Steinem

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

- R.H. Sin

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

- Alexander Pope

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

- Walt Whitman

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

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

"Do today what others won't and achieve tomorrow what others can't."

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

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

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

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

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."

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

"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

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

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

"Success is not the absence of failure, it’s persistence through failure."

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

"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."

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

"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

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

"Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are."

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

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

"For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

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

"If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough."

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

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

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

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

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."

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

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

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

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

- Unknown

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

"Success does not lie in results but in efforts, being the best is not so important, doing the best is all that matters."

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