100 Inspirational Quotes to Empower and Unite Your Team

"To me, teamwork is a lot like being part of a family. It comes with obligations, entanglements, headaches, and quarrels. But the rewards are worth the cost."

- Pat Summit

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

- Michael Jordan

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

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

- Vince Lombardi

"[Teamwork] is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness and not a threat to your position or authority."

- Christine Caine

"We may all have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now."

- Martin Luther King Jr

"The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins."

- John C. Maxwell

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Mattie Stepanek

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

- Mattie Stepanek

"You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins."

- Jim Stovall

"Individually, we are a drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

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

- Phil Jackson

"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."

- George Shinn

"A team isn’t a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other."

- Simon Sinek

"Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal."

- Patrick Lencioni

"You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."

- Babe Ruth

"Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team."

- Patrick Lencioni

"No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team"

- Reid Hoffman

"Individual commitment to a group effort — that’s 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

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

- Brian Tracy

"If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?"

- Matthew Woodring Stover

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

- Harry S Truman

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

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Andrew Carnegie

"We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful."

- Mother Teresa

"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Mattie Stepanek

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

- NAPOLEON HILL

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime."

- Babe Ruth

"Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results."

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else."

- Abby Wambach

"Tough times don’t last. Tough teams do."

- Robert Schuller

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it."

- H.E. Luccock

"We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end."

- Woodrow T. Wilson

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way."

- Proverb

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

- Joe Echevarria

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"Don’t aspire to be the best on the team. Aspire to be the best for the team."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Helen Keller

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."

- Henry Ford

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

- Steve Jobs

"We rise by lifting others"

- Robert Ingersoll

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

- Vince Lombardi

"When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back."

- Michael Schumacher

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Phil Jackson

"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."

- MIA HAMM

"No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team."

- Reid Hoffman

"Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing it because they care about the team."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."

- Stephen Covey

"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."

- John Wooden

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

- Henry Ford

"Many of us are more capable than some of us, but none of us is as capable as all of us."

- Tom Wilson

"People achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."

- Dr. Allan Fromme

"If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team."

- Bud Wilkinson

"Together, ordinary people can achieve extraordinary results."

- Becka Schoettle

"A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of others."

- Norman Shidle

"A group becomes teammates when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others."

- Norman Shidle

"A team is not a group of people working together. It is a group of people working entirely towards a shared goal."

- Patrick Lencioni

"There is no teamwork without trust. And there is no trust without vulnerability."

- Simon Sinek

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

- G.S. Patton

"Great teams are not made up of great individuals."

- Jim Collins

"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"None of us can achieve our full potential alone, and we will all ultimately go further with the help of others."

- Margaret Mead

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

- Michael Jordan

"You can design and create and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

- Walt Disney

"A great team is a group of people with complementary skills who have a collaborative spirit and a commitment to a common purpose."

- Suzy Welch

"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength."

- Pat Riley

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

- Virginia Burden

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

- Sir Isaac Newton

"The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life forever."

- Amy Poehler

"Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"It all starts with a great idea and teamwork."

- Garrett Camp

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps."

- Mary Kay Ash

"We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves."

- Terry Orlick

"With an enthusiastic team, you can achieve almost anything."

- Tahir Shah

"It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

- Charles Darwin

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others."

- Jon Gordon

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable."

- Chris Bradford

"There’s no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."

- George Shinn

"Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together."

- Brené Brown

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Joe Girard

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

- James Cash Penney

"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job."

- Winston Churchill

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it."

- Bear Bryant

"When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing."

- Bo Schembechler

"In teamwork, silence isn’t golden, it’s deadly."

- Mark Sanborn

"Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."

- Kenyan Proverb

"Our greatest innovations come from teams who have the courage to experiment and learn."

- Satya Nadella

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

"If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

- Elon Musk

"The most important thing is to try your best. Even if you fail, if you try everything, you will have no regrets."

- Kobe Bryant

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

- Vince Lombardi

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Real leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could."

- Tim Cook

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

- Mark Cuban

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."

- Brene Brown

"Talent is important, but chemistry is everything."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy. Show me a team and I’ll write you an epic."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The beauty of teamwork is that no one person gets the credit. This is the magic of synergy."

- Uzodinma Iweala

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

- John Wooden

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

- Peter Drucker

"Pour your heart into making sure every member of your team feels empowered to be their best. Invest in them. Develop them. Then watch them soar."

- Howard Schultz

"Collaboration is the engine that drives innovation."

- Joel Brown

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working as a team because they respect the man next to them."

- Paul J. Meyer

"Teams that succeed have healthy trust, mutual respect, and a shared sense of purpose."

- Maryanne Radmacher

"Unity is strength, division is weakness."

- Kwame Nkrumah

"What makes the difference between a team and a group of people working together is the trust, the mutual respect, and the sense of shared purpose that team members have for each other."

- Virgil

"Leadership is about shaping a vision, aligning people, and empowering them to go beyond their perceived limitations."

- A.G. Lafley

"There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the life you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"Winning is not a sometime thing. It’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while. You don’t do things right once in a while. You do them right all the time."

- Vince Lombardi

"Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given without ever realizing the potential of what they could achieve."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Colin Powell

"Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Confucius

"Failure is inevitable. But giving up is unforgivable."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Thomas Edison

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"It’s not about being perfect. It’s about effort. Sometimes the best effort results in failure, but so what? Try. Learn. Grow. Repeat."

- Reshma Saujani

"Failure is an opportunity to learn. Setbacks are inevitable. Learn from them, and come back stronger."

- Mary Barra

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Play it safe, and you never discover."

- Simon Sinek

"It’s the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed."

- Charles Darwin

"In teamwork, silence isn't golden, it's deadly."

- Mark Sanborn

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"When you hand good people possibility, they do great things."

- Biz Stone

"We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together."

- Victoria Osteen

"I truly believe when we stand together we stand a chance."

- Korie Robertson

"With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything."

- Tahir Shah

"The secret is to gang up on the problem, rather than each other."

- Thomas Stallkamp

"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I sure can pick smart colleagues."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you."

- Althea Gibson

"Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success."

- Ted Sundquist

"Many hands make light work."

- John Heywood

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"A leader must inspire or his team will expire."

- Orrin Woodward

"Every once in a while you hear an expert that says team chemistry is overrated. You just write that person off."

- Tony La Russa

"Create an environment where people can take risks. If everything has to be brilliant from the word go, you’re never gonna get off the ground."

- Paul Hewson, a.k.a Bono

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

- Arnold Glasow

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

- James Cash Penney

"A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take."

- Barbara Glacel & Emile Robert Jr.

"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth."

- Baha'U'Llah

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly."

- Mark Sanborn

"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."

- Jean-Francois Cope

"If you can laugh together, you can work together."

- Robert Orben

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary."

- Bruce Coslet

"Let us all be the leaders we wish we had."

- Simon Sinek

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader."

- Aristotle

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

- Ken Blanchard

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

- Stephen Covey

"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."

- Stephen Covey

"Failure is simply feedback. We need to learn from it and change."

- Seth Godin

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."

- James Cash Penney

"If you can’t learn from failure, then you are truly frustrated."

- William Edwards Deming

"Victory goes to those who can endure hardship the longest."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"No one ever achieved greatness being mediocre."

- Reed Hastings

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

- Booker T. Washington

"What separates successful people from others is an extra. Ordinary effort is rarely enough."

- Indra Nooyi

"Without this dream, there would be no progress."

- Frederic Douglass

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"There is no shame in asking for help. Asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness."

- Reshma Saujani

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Failure doesn’t define you; it refines you."

- Noelle LeBlanc

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

- Michelle Obama

"We all have great dreams and aspirations, but to achieve them requires hard work, dedication, and discipline."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Yearning for a life of passion and purpose? Start doing things that ignite your excitement."

- Shonda Rhimes

"The whole of science is an edifice built on the work of many, not of one."

- Charles F. Kettering

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

- Arabella Weir

"Success is often achieved by those who don’t know it is impossible."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Elon Musk

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

- John A. Shedd

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

- Michael Jordan

"A big mistake is to make a small thing out of a mistake."

- Ed Catmull

"Fear of failure is a prison. It keeps us from even trying."

- Tim Ferriss

"There is no ‘I’ in team, but there is in win."

- Mike Singlaub

"True heroes are made of hard work and integrity."

- Hope Solo

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

- John Wooden

"Ask your colleagues for help—early and often."

- Jill Konrath

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

- George Bernard Shaw

"It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do."

- John Adams

"Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear."

- Michelle Obama

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

- Booker T. Washington

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Everything is hard before it’s easy."

- Marie Forleo

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

"Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal."

- Ava DuVernay

"Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work."

- Dustin Moskovitz

"When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself."

- Tibetan Proverb

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."

- Pat Riley

"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."

- Jack Canfield

"Change is not a four letter word… but often your reaction to it is!"

- Jeffrey Gitomer

"We are all here because we need each other."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."

- Oprah Winfrey

"An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down."

- Reid Hoffman

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don’t work well with their colleagues."

- Lee Iacocca

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand."

- Emily Kimbrough

"You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment."

- Seth Godin

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Our destiny is not written for us, it's written by us"

- Barack Obama

"The nicest thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."

- Sara Blakely

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

- Indira Gandhi

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

- Amy Poehler

"We multiplies the power of I."

- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

"You are either supporting the vision or supporting division."

- Saji Ijiyemi

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

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

- Richard Yates

"Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals."

- Amy Morin

"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

- Jessica Savitch

"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"The only way round is through."

- Robert Frost

"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

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

- Brian Tracy

"Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision."

- Jim Stovall

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."

- Abraham Lincoln

"People doing good work feel good and people doing exceptional work feel exceptional. Accomplishments contribute greatly to satisfaction."

- Mark Sanborn

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

- Charles F. Kettering

"Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place."

- Satya Nadella

"You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby."

- Larry Page

"You don’t achieve success, you attract success."

- Farshad Asl

"It's the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail."

- Caterina Fake

"Elevate true productivity over the appearance of hard work."

- Scott Belsky

"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’re either remarkable or invisible. Make a choice."

- Seth Godin

"Some people see innovation as change, but we have never really seen it like that. It’s making things better."

- Tim Cook

"Be clear. Be authentic. Have boundaries. Check your vision. Do what matters to you. And know what you value."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"There’s always an opportunity to make a difference."

- Michael Dell

"Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world."

- Melinda Gates

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

- Earl Nightingale

"All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation."

- Max McKeown

"You’ve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be."

- Janet Fitch

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

- Gena Showalter

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

- Babe Ruth

"Every single failure has an equally great upside if you are willing to stay in the game."

- Barbara Corcoran

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

- Denis Waitley

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength."

- Chris Bradford

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

- Paulo Coelho

"It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once."

- Mark Cuban

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Between being able to and actually doing something lies an ocean, and on its bottom rests all too often the wreck of willpower."

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"If you can dance and be free and not embarrassed you can rule the world."

- Amy Poehler

"The ratio of We’s to I’s is the best indicator of the development of a team."

- Lewis B. Ergen

"Never confuse movement with action."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right."

- Simon Mainwaring

"It's better to be alone than in bad company."

- George Washington

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

- Mother Teresa

"Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term."

- Reed Hastings

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%."

- Rob Kalin

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

- John Donne

"What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change."

- Madeleine Albright

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."

- Josh Billings

"Anything is possible if you wish hard enough."

- J.M. Barrie

"It will never be done. It’s a continuous exercise."

- Dara Khosrowshahi

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

"It’s better to have a million fans than a critic."

- Biz Stone

"Expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected."

- Lynda Barry

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

- John Wooden

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"Efficiency is doing better than what is already being done."

- Peter Drucker

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity"

- Sun Tzu

"Iteration is the fundamental basis of all improvement."

- Mark Manson

"There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others."

- Mandy Hale

"You are not the work you do; you are the person you are."

- Toni Morrison

"Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment."

- Scott Galloway

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."

- Deepak Chopra

"The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Decency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right."

- Adam Grant

"I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I’m changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow."

- Jim Hightower

"Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity."

- Ram Dass

"Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen."

- Akwaeke Emezi

"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."

- Joseph Stilwell

"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."

- Whoopi Goldberg

"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."

- Leslie Nielsen

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

- African Proverb

"A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle."

- Japanese proverb

"To err is human—and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

- Robert Orben

"Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."

"When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion."