One Word Wonders: A Powerful Collection of Inspirational Quotes

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Pablo Picasso

"Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic."

- Laini Taylor

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul."

- Amy Collette

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"Determination is the wake-up call to the human will."

- Tony Robbins

"Integrity is the seed for achievement. It is the principle that never fails."

- Earl Nightingale

"The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment."

- Antonio Brown

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

- Barbara De Angelis

"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

- Harriet Stowe

"A meaningful life is one in which you deeply connect to your purpose. A person living life with purpose is a hero who gets up every day with a clear sense of who they are and what they are doing in the world."

- Wayne Mellinger

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

"The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough."

- Victoria Arlen

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

- Lao Tzu

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid but still stepping forward."

- Franklin P. Jones

"Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire."

- Oswald Chambers

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Walter Elliot

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- Dalai Lama

"Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear."

- Dan Millman

"Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you– in your body, heart, and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment."

- Jan Chozen Bays

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

- Buddhist quote

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

- Thomas Paine

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

- Molière

"Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more."

- Tim S. Grover

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"Be present in all things and thankful for all things."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Walt Disney

"Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you."

- Bethany Hamilton

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

- Bill Bradley

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within."

- Maya Angelou

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings."

- William Arthur Ward

"Without integrity and honor, having everything means nothing."

- Robin Sharma

"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."

- Joseph Addison

"Don't go through life, grow through life."

- Eric Butterworth

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."

- Tori Amos

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

- Alan Watts

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

- Charles Darwin

"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience."

- John Dewey

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

- Winston Churchill

"The greatest achievement is to still be excited to awaken each morning."

- Maya Angelou

"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."

- Luc de Clapiers

"Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management."

- Betsy Jacobson

"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen."

- Brené Brown

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself."

- Jack Welch

"When we create harmony in our minds, we will find it in our lives."

- Louise Hay

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

- Albert Einstein

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

- Shakespeare

"Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude."

- Ralph Marston

"Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident."

- Abdul Kalam

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

- Aristotle

"I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants."

- Zig Ziglar

"Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something."

- Ralph Marston

"Forgiveness doesn’t make the other person right; it makes you free."

- Stormie Omartian

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

- Mark Twain

"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment."

- Tony Robbins

"If you devote yourself entirely to a noble pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment."

- Daniel Gillies

"True happiness is a state of fulfillment."

- Ashish Sophat

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

- Bo Jackson

"Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them."

- Jim Rohn

"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."

- LES BROWN

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for."

- Zig Ziglar

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones."

- John Lennon

"Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway."

- Mother Theresa

"We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life."

- Emil Brunner

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

- Albert Einstein

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."

- Carl Sagan

"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age and dreams are forever."

- Walt Disney

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

- Ralph Marston

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement."

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Deep Roy

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

- Joseph Campbell

"The soul’s joy lies in doing."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

- Mark Twain

"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."

- Sophocles

"Abundance is not something we acquire, it’s something we tune into."

- Wayne Dyer

"If you’re willing to do for a year what others won’t you can do for a lifetime what others can’t."

- Jerry Rice

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

- William James

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

- Voltaire

"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd."

- Miguel de Cervantes

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

- Albert Einstein

"One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying."

- Joan of Arc

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."

- Joseph Campbell

"The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless."

- Dean Karnazes

"Dream, struggle, create, prevail. Be daring. Be brave. Be loving. Be compassionate. Be strong. Be brilliant. Be beautiful."

- Caterina Fake

"Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want."

- Ken Poirot

"If you never try, you’ll never know what you are capable of."

- John Barrow

"After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change."

- Tate Taylor

"Without commitment you cannot have depth in anything."

- Neil Strauss

"Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it."

- Steve Maraboli

"Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself."

- Moshe Feldenkrais

"The magic of new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all."

- Josiyah Martin

"When opportunity presents itself, don’t be afraid to go after it."

- Eddie Kennison

"When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant."

- Henri Nouwen

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

- Jonathan Swift

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."

- C.S. Lewis

"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."

- Potter Stewart

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about empowering others to do their best."

- Simon Sinek

"The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been."

- Henry Kissinger

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."

- George Canning

"Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result."

- Bob Proctor

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

- Vince Lombardi

"When you show deep empathy for others, their defensive energy goes down."

- Stephen Covey

"Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised."

- Walt Disney

"Strategy without process is little more than a wish list."

- Robert Filek

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Ken Blanchard

"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."

- Aristotle

"The art of communication is the language of leadership."

- James Humes

"Leadership is not about being in charge, it’s about taking care of those in your charge."

- Simon Sinek

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"Believe in yourself and all that you are."

- Christian D. Larson

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?"

- Benjamin Franklin

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Confucius

"Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."

- Bill Keane

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Be brave enough to live life creatively."

- Alan Alda

"A star does not compete with other stars around it. It just shines."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose."

- Tom Wilson

"In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."

- Susan Gale

"Teaching is the highest form of understanding."

- Aristotle

"Trust is the easiest thing in the world to loose and the hardest thing in the world to get back."

- R. Williams

"Understanding comes through communication, and through understanding we find the way to peace."

- Ralph C. Smedley

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Maya Angelou

"For the valiant heart, nothing is impossible."

- Jacques Couer

"The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships."

- Vernon Howard

"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

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

- Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- Julie Andrews

"I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become."

- Carl Jung

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination that drives you."

- Mario Andretti

"Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint."

- Angela Duckworth

"Challenges are what make life interesting."

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- President John Quincy Adams

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes."

- Peter F. Drucker

"Clarity precedes success."

- Robin Sharma

"Where there is love, there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

- Karl Barth

"Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission."

- Zig Ziglar

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own."

- Kris Carr

"The possible is just the impossible that we’ve come to accept."

- Stewart Stafford

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Bill Keane

"The key is not to proritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something."

- Lev Grossman

"Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine."

- Shunryu Suzuki

"Respect yourself and others will respect you."

- Confucius

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

- Grace Hopper

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order."

- Thomas Merton

"Awareness is the greatest agent for change."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

- William James

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size."

- Albert Einstein

"There’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

- Scott Adams

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

- Kofi Annan

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

- Henry David Thoreau

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."

- Epictetus

"Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply."

- Stephen Covey

"There is only one role for being a good talker—learn to listen."

- Christopher Morley

"With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."

- Zig Ziglar

"My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission."

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Anaïs Nin

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Viola Davis

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

- George Eliot

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

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Maggie Kuhn

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

- Jane Fonda

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

"Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably."

- Brian Tracy

"One who conquers himself can conquer ten thousand worlds."

- Matsona Dhliwayo

"Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it … one must have the courage to dare."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The starting point of all achievement is desire."

- Napoleon Hill

"With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains."

- Dwayne Johnson

"I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me."

- Zane Grey

"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."

- Wayne Dyer

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat."

- Steve Jobs

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

- Desmond Tutu

"Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That’s why it’s such a powerful weapon."

- Nelson Mandela

"Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself."

- Mohsin Hamid

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

- Aesop

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"He who does not trust enough will not be trusted."

- Lao Tzu

"The heart has reasons which reason knows not."

- Blaise Pascal

"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone, and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."

- Paul Tillich

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."

- Deepak Chopra

"Focus is the gateway to all thinking."

- Daniel Goleman

"Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence."

- Dalai Lama

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

"Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it."

- Veronica Roth

"The fighter who give their all will be around next year. Don’t save anything. Give it all you got."

- George Foreman

"Always remember, your focus determines your reality."

- George Lucas

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

- Nelson Mandela

"Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do."

- Kahlil Gibran

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself."

- William Shakespeare

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less."

- C. S. Lewis

"Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before."

- Shigeo Shingo

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

- Victor Hugo

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

- Socrates

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that cannot be erased."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Les Brown

"A life lived in love will never be dull."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous."

- Georgia O’Keeffe

"Every action we take impacts the lives of others around us. The question is: are you aware of Your impact?"

- Arthur Carmazzi

"Laughing is, and will always be, the best form of therapy."

- Dau Voire

"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."

- Sallust

"Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing."

- Jennifer Brown

"Law without justice is a wound without a cure."

- William Scott Downey

"Honor may not win power but it wins respect. And respect earns power."

- Ishida Mitsunari

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

- William Blake

"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self."

- Albert Einstein

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

- Henry David Thoreau

"For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them."

- St. Augustine of Hippo

"If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Life is like a roller coaster. Live it, be happy, enjoy life."

- Avril Lavigne

"Let the glow in your heart reflect in your soul."

- Steve Maraboli

"Originality is the best form of rebellion."

- Mike Sasso

"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments"

- Michael Vance

"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."

- Calvin Coolidge

"In every woman, there is a queen. Speak to the queen and the queen will answer."

- Norwegian Proverb

"Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing."

- Evinda Lepins

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

- Confucius

"Worthy things happen to the worthy."

- Plautus

"You’re still alive. And that means you’ll love and be loved…and in the end, nothing else really matters."

- Nicholas Sparks

"The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something."

- Koun Yamada

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."

- Amelia Earhart

"Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries."

- Alan Alda

"Monsters will always exist. There’s one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other."

- Jacqueline Novogratz

"Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born."

- Clarice Lispector

"Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far."

- Swahili Proverb

"Every day of your life is a special occasion."

- Thomas Monson

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

- John F. Kennedy

"Persuasion can go through obstacles that force cannot."

- Yusuf A. Leinge

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."

- Epictetus

"It’s all about finding calm in the chaos"

- Donna Karan

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

- Carl Sandburg

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."

- Blaise Pascal

"Influence is about being genuine."

- Johnny Hunt

"An active soul is a healthy soul"

- Maori Proverb

"To align your life with your values is to find your true path."

- Anonymous

"An overflow of good converts to bad."

- William Shakespeare

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

"One small positive thought can change your whole day."

"What defines us is how well we rise after falling."

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

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

"Don't just survive. Thrive."

"Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others."

"Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase."

"Successful leaders see adversity as a stepping stone to greatness."

"Every next level of your life will demand a different you."

"Charisma is the ability to inspire followers with devotion and enthusiasm."

"Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm."

"Go with the flow. Force nothing. Let it happen."

"To comfort always, that’s our job."

"Sometimes the best solution is to just release what you cannot control."

"Find your center and stay there."

"Acceptance is not submission; it is a recognition of the reality."

"Harmony makes small things grow."

"Observe with love and with understanding."