The Ultimate Collection of Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Passion

### Discover the Power of Words to Inspire and Motivate Dive into an extensive collection of inspirational quotes from some of the most influential thinkers, leaders, and visionaries. These quotes are carefully curated to uplift your spirit, encourage perseverance, and spark creativity. ### Why Inspirational Quotes Matter Words have the power to transform our mindset and fuel our ambitions. Whether you're facing challenges or seeking motivation to pursue your dreams, this collection offers timeless wisdom to guide you. ### A Treasure Trove of Wisdom From the profound insights of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to the empowering words of Oprah Winfrey and Maya Angelou, this compilation covers a wide spectrum of themes including courage, resilience, success, and self-belief. Embrace these quotes as daily reminders that greatness is within your reach, and every small step counts towards your journey of success and fulfillment.

Wisdom from the Masters

"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

Love

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

- Tony Robbins

Goals

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

Compassion

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

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

"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

Belief in Self

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

"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

Compassion

"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

Persistence

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

Motivation

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."

- Buddha

Presence

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

Personal Growth

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

Courage

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

- Winston Churchill

Success

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

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

- Nelson Mandela

Ambition

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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

- Thomas Edison

Failure

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

- Nelson Mandela

Education

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

- Vivian Greene

Resilience

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contribution

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

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

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

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

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

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

- Jimmy Dean

Change

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

- Muhammad Ali

Belief in Self

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

Ambition

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Ambition

"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

Empowerment

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

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Future

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Ambition

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

- Viola Davis

Aspirations

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal."

- Naomi Osaka

Aspirations

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

Aspirations

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

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

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"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

Courage

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

- Mark Cuban

Positivity

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."

- Anne Frank

Hope

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

- Olivia Newton John

Facing Fears

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

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Courage

"Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions."

- The Dalai Lama

Happiness

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

- Jim Rohn

Happiness

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

- Estée Lauder

Success

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

- Booker T. Washington

Compassion

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

- Robert Schuller

Resilience

"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

Integrity

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Independence

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

Self-awareness

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

- Zig Ziglar

Goals

"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

Change

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

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

- Amanda Gorman

Courage

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

- Helen Keller

Education

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

- Babe Ruth

Courage

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Lee Ann Womack

Taking Risks

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

- Paulo Coelho

Awareness

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

- William Hazlitt

Balance

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

- Mae West

Contentment

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

- Bruce Lee

Time Management

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

- William Osler

Contribution

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

- Robert Byrne

Philosophy

"Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

Contentment

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

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

Courage

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

Love

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

- Philip Appleman

Philosophy

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

- Anne Frank

Compassion

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

- Albert Camus

Awareness

"So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow."

- Rainbow Rowell

Positivity

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

Hope

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

Philosophy

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

Philosophy

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

- Oscar Wilde

Self-care

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

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"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

Ambition

"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

Compassion

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

Change

"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

Courage

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

- Herman Melville

Creativity

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

- Colin R. Davis

Success

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Success

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

- Dale Carnegie

Success

"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

Success

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

- W. P. Kinsella

Happiness

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

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

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

- Will Rogers

Reflection

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Dorothy West

Learning

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

Focus

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

- Jim Rohn

Time Management

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

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

- Paulo Coelho

Personal Growth

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

- Tony Robbins

Goals

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

- Cindy Gallop

Empowerment

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

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

- Roseanne Barr

Empowerment

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

- Shirley Chisholm

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Empowerment

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

- Margaret Thatcher

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

Strength

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

- Albert Einstein

Success

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

Courage

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

Success

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

- Confucius Kongzi

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Dale Carnegie

Learning from Mistakes

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

- David Brinkley

Resilience

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

- Epictetus

Contentment

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

- George Lorimer

Determination

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

Learning

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

- Charlie Munger

Wisdom

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

- Tina Fey

Taking Risks

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

- Melissa McCarthy

Determination

"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

Change

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

- David Hurley

Respect

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Leadership

"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

Change

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

- Vince Lombardi

Success

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

- Walt Disney

Determination

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

- Helen Keller

Optimism

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

- Joe Girard

Success

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

- Dave Carolan

Positivity

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

- Zig Ziglar

Motivation

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

Positivity

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

Reflection

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

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

"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

"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

Teamwork

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

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

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

- Patrick Lencioni

Teamwork

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

Teamwork

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

- Dalai Lama

Positivity

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

- Chris Grosser

Optimism

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

Family

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

- Les Brown

Self-esteem

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

- Stephen R. Covey

Belief in Self

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

- John Wooden

Hard Work

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination

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

- William James

Change

"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

Motivation

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

- Lucille Ball

Reflection

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

Taking Risks

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Gratitude

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

New Beginnings

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

- Wayne Dyer

Motivation

"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

Motivation

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

- Kate Summers

Happiness

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

- S. O’ Sade

Happiness

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

- Nanea Hoffman

Happiness

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

- Byron Pulsifer

Happiness

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

- Catherine Pulsifer

Balance

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

- Zig Ziglar

Service

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

- Pablo Picasso

Motivation

"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

Determination

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

- Isabel Allende

Creativity

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

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

Persistence

"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

Empowerment

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

- Anne Lamott

Joy

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

- Warren Buffet

Generosity

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

Self-improvement

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

- A. A. Milne

Contentment

"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

Creativity

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

- Jason Fried

Contentment

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance

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

- Jessica Ennis

Belief in Self

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

- Bo Jackson

Goals

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

- Mia Hamm

Success

"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

Empowerment

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

- Napoleon Hill

Determination

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

- Jim Rohn

Motivation

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

- Epicurus

Adversity

"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

Courage

"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

Personal Growth

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

- Cindy Gallop

Liberation

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

Courage

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

- Jay-Z

Resilience

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

- Arianna Huffington

Personal Growth

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

- Erica Jong

Taking Risks

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

- Henry Ford

Failure

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

- Confucius

Resilience

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

- Wayne Dyer

Inspiration

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

- Bill Gates

Learning from Mistakes

"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

Motivation

"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

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Henry Ford

Courage

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

- Wayne Dyer

Inner Peace

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

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

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

- Ross Simmonds

Hard Work

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

- George Addair

Facing Fears

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

- Ayn Rand

Ambition

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

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

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

- Thomas Edison

Resilience

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

Success

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

- Paul Bryant

Success

"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

Mindfulness

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

- Earl Nightingale

Aspirations

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

- Mark Twain

Personal Growth

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

- Bruce Lee

Awareness

"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

Persistence

"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

Adversity

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

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity

"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

Leadership

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

- Ruth Gordo

Courage

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

- Dr. Seuss

New Beginnings

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

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

- Jane Goodall

Compassion

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

- Michael Jordan

Ambition

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

Self-confidence

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

Happiness

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

- Albert Einstein

Creativity

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

- Dr. Seuss

Independence

"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

Happiness

"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 which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

Happiness

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

- Paulo Coelho

Aspirations

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

Perseverance

"Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done."

- David Goggins

Determination

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-awareness

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

- Nelson Mandela

Courage

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

Failure

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Bravery

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you'll reach your goal. And if that takes a few years, then that's great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that's part of the process."

- Naomi Osaka

Aspirations

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

- Sylvester Stallone

Courage

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards."

- Bear Bryant

Belief in Self

"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

Belief in Self

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

- Vince Lombardi

Resilience

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

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

- Muhammad Ali

Time Management

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

- Zig Ziglar

Aspirations

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

- Paulo Coelho

Aspirations

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resilience

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

- George Addair

Facing Fears

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

Courage

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

- Plutarch

Empowerment

"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."

- George O'Keeffe

Bravery

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

- Ben Okri

Resilience

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

- Tony Robbins

Choice

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

Personal Growth

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

- Desmond Tutu

Compassion

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

- Milton Berle

Creativity

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

- Confucius

Perseverance

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Perseverance

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

- Og Mandino

Determination

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

- Aldous Huxley

Self-improvement

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

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

- Gale Sayers

Goals

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

- Wayne Dyer

Motivation

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

- Harriet Stowe

Perseverance

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

- Simone de Beauvoir

Taking Risks

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

Inspiration

"You will never win if you never begin."

- Helen Rowland

Motivation

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

Motivation

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

- Winston Churchill

Perseverance

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

- Samuel Beckett

Failure

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

Compassion

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- Les Brown

Ambition

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas A. Edison

Motivation

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

Education

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

- Paul J. Meyer

Belief

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

- Macklemore

Adaptation

"Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door."

- Kyle Chandler

Taking Risks

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

- Leo Buscaglia

Contribution

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

- Marie Curie

Ambition

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

- Mae Jemison

Belief in Self

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

- Lao Tzu

Inner Peace

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

Creativity

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

Awareness

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

- Oscar Wilde

Optimism

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

- Neil Gaiman

Courage

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."

- Bill Keane

Gratitude

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

- Elie Wiesel

Compassion

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

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

- Robert H. Schuller

New Beginnings

"I tell myself, 'You've been through so much, you've endured so much, time will allow me to heal and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete and mother I am today.'"

- Serena Williams

Resilience

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

Imagination

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

Transformation

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

Personal Growth

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

- Shel Silverstein

Inspiration

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

Hope

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- Rabindranath Tagore

Courage

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

- William Blake

Independence

"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."

- Sylvester Stallone

Belief in Self

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela

Motivation

"Quality is not an act; it is a habit."

- Aristotle

Hard Work

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life."

- Carrie Ann Moss

Independence

"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

Personal Growth

"If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you, and it will be extremely clear what the next step is."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

Self-awareness

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

- Robin Williams

Influence

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

Independence

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

- Jules Renard

Motivation

"I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Courage

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Vision

"I'm not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

Empowerment

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

- Anne Frank

Empowerment

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

- Earl Nightingale

Motivation

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

- Joseph Campbell

New Beginnings

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

Self-awareness

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Transformation

"Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied."

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

Motivation

"Nobody is built like you; you design yourself."

- Jay-Z

Self-confidence

"Live your beliefs, and you can turn the world around."

- Henry David Thoreau

Belief

"Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures."

- Joelle Speranza

Personal Growth

"Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you."

- Beyoncé

Self-esteem

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

- Dolly Parton

Motivation

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

Time Management

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

Courage

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action."

- Dr. Henry Link

Overcoming Obstacles

"I've noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I'm grateful in the end."

- Colleen Hoover

Facing Fears

"We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can't put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?"

- Jennifer Lopez

Drive

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hope

"We are not our best intentions. We are what we do."

- Amy Dickinson

Personal Growth

"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

Motivation

"Don't be afraid. Because you're going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don't be afraid."

- Joan Jett

Facing Fears

"We need to take risks. We need to go broke. We need to prove them wrong, simply by not giving up."

- Awkwafina

Taking Risks

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

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Optimism

"We all have problems. But it's not what happens to us, [it's] the choices we make after."

- Elizabeth Smart

Choice

"You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances and certainly not by your race or gender."

- Mariah Carey

Independence

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

- Deepak Chopra

Belief in Self

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

- Vince Lombardi

Achievement

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

Hope

"I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential."

- Nicki Minaj

Self-confidence

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity

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

- Mark Twain

Education

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

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

- Stephen Covey

Creativity

"We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We've gotta listen more and talk less. We've gotta know that this is everybody's responsibility."

- Meghan Rapinoe

Compassion

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

- Steve Furtick

Self-awareness

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

- Carl Sagan

Inspiration

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

Success

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

- Warren Buffett

Contribution

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

- William James

Contribution

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

- Buddha

Happiness

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

- Francis of Assisi

Taking Risks

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

- Swami Sivananda

Hard Work

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."

- Jack Dempsey

Resilience

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

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

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

- Willie Nelson

Positivity

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

Positivity

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

- Mary Lou Retton

Positivity

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

Positivity

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

- Drew Houston

Motivation

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Happiness

"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."

- Elaine Welteroth

Facing Fears

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

- Drake

Balance

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

Creativity

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

- John Barrymore

Happiness

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

- Mother Theresa

Happiness

"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

Success

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

- Laird Hamilton

Self-awareness

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

- Truman Capote

Failure

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

Success

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time."

- Don Zimmer

Hard Work

"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult."

- Queen Elizabeth II

Compassion

"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you."

- Lupita Nyong'o

Compassion

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

- Albert Einstein

Balance

"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

- Ella Fitzgerald

Change

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

- E.E. Cummings

Courage

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

- Maria Edgeworth

Presence

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

Creativity

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

- George Eliot

New Beginnings

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

- Walt Disney

Motivation

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

Ambition

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

- Nicole Kidman

Courage

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

- Lindsey Vonn

Change

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

- St. Jerome

Self-improvement

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

- Jack Canfield

Hope

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

- Aristotle

Hope

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

- Demi Lovato

Hope

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

- Henry Ford

Overcoming Obstacles

"Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you."

- Gabrielle Union

Hard Work

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

- Maya Angelou

Success

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

- Pema Chodron

Reflection

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

Inspiration

"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."

- William James

Change

"Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell."

- Amal Clooney

Courage

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

- Reba McEntire

Balance

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

- Vernon Howard

Contentment

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

Resilience

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

- Albert Einstein

Insight

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

Philosophy

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

- George Lorimer

Motivation

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

Adversity

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

Courage

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

Achievement

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

- Thomas Carlyle

Vision

"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

Time Management

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

- Alexander the Great

Motivation

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Choice

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

Awareness

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

- Thomas Aquinas

Taking Risks

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

- Carol Burnett

Aspirations

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

- Dita Von Teese

Self-awareness

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

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

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

- Confucius

Courage

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

- Don Cheadle

Self-awareness

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

- Leymah Gbowee

Courage

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

- Wayne Dyer

Belief in Self

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Empowerment

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

- Childish Gambino

Taking Risks

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

- Martin Luther

Hope

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

- Louise Hay

Personal Growth

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

- Coco Chanel

Originality

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

Awareness

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

Courage

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

- Constance Wu

Self-awareness

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

Empowerment

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

- Jennifer Lopez

Self-awareness

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

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"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

Health

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

- Mia Hamm

Taking Risks

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

- Og Mandino

Resilience

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."

- Eckhart Tolle

Self-awareness

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

- Mikhail Gorbachev

Personal Growth

"I care about decency and humanity and kindness. Kindness today is an act of rebellion."

- Pink

Compassion

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

Positivity

"You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."

- Amy Poehler

Personal Growth

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

Imagination

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Self-awareness

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Self-awareness

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

Hope

"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."

- Cicely Tyson

Resilience

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

- Henry C. Link

Learning from Mistakes

"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before."

- Shinzo Abe

Resilience

"When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another."

- J.A. Tran

Adaptation

"When we choose to trust the journey and embrace love and joy, we are free to fly."

- Annicken R. Day

Faith

"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars."

- Edward Young

Ambition

"Leaders set high standards, refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."

- Brian Tracy

Leadership

"Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more."

- Aretha Franklin

Growth

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

Faith

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

- Herman Melville

Positivity

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow."

- Aeschylus

Growth

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

- Gustave Flaubert

Optimism

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

- Toni Morrison

Philosophy

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

- Bruce Springsteen

Success

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

- Charles Dickens

Courage

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Compassion

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."

- Dr. Phil

Self-awareness

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

Happiness

"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."

- Arthur Helps

Courage

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."

- Neil Armstrong

Awareness

"I just want you to know that if you are out there and you are being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened...it's normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please."

- Taylor Swift

Self-care

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Creativity

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

Gratitude

"The moral of my story is the Sun always comes out after the storm. Being optimistic and surrounding yourself with positive, loving people is, for me, living life on the sunny side of the street."

- Janice Dean

Optimism

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

- Madonna

Boldness

"Spread love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

Compassion

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

Success

"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on."

- Lady Gaga

Boldness

"We have to let go of who we think we should be and embrace what is."

- Achea Redd

Self-awareness

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

- Ronald Reagan

Compassion

"Work hard, know your s—t, show your s—t and then feel entitled."

- Mindy Kaling

Hard Work

"Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness."

- Selena Gomez

Courage

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there."

- George Harrison

Inner Peace

"It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Caroll

Change

"I'm going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn't promised. Am I OK with how I'm living today? It's the only thing I can help. If I didn't have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?"

- Hayley Williams

Self-awareness

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

- Sir Francis Bacon

Hope

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

Belief

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

Generosity

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

Independence

"I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine."

- André Leon Talley

Creativity

"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."

- Danny DeVito

Presence

"I'm realizing how much I've diminished my own power. I'm not doing that no more."

- Alicia Keys

Empowerment

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

- Mandy Hale

Mindfulness

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

- Kesha

Empowerment

"Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness."

- Marie Forleo

Happiness

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

Aspirations

"Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment."

- Marianne Cantwell

Self-awareness

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

- Thomas Paine

New Beginnings

"Let love rule."

- Lenny Kravitz

Love

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

Mindfulness

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

- Naomi Judd

Reflection

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

- E.E. Cummings

Happiness

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen—that stillness becomes a radiance."

- Morgan Freeman

Mindfulness

"We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person."

- Anne Heche

Love

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

- Dr. Seuss

Reflection

"How wild it was, to let it be."

- Cheryl Strayed

Change

"The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift."

- L. A. Villafane

Compassion

"In the long run, you make your own luck — good, bad, or indifferent."

- Loretta Lynn

Success

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

- Nicole Kidman

Resilience

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

- C.S. Lewis

Contentment

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

- Amy Poehler

Balance

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'"

- James Caan

Mindfulness

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

- Stephen Chbosky

Reflection

"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."

- Grace Kelly

Contentment

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

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

Leadership

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

Motivation

"There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking."

Belief in Self

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

Empowerment

"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."

Success

"Turn your face to the Sun and the shadows fall behind you."

Optimism

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

Self-awareness