391 Inspirational Quotes to Inspire You Today

"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."

- Alan Cohen

"I'm all about body positivity and self-love because I believe that we can save the world if we first save ourselves."

- Lizzo

"Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Look inward—the loving begins with you."

- Oprah Winfrey

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

"May you choose yourself, always!"

- Malebo Sephodi

"One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others."

- Bell Hooks

"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you."

- Rupi Kaur

"It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit."

- Eartha Kitt

"Self-love is an ocean, and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first."

- Beau Taplin

"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire."

- Rumi

"I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."

- Brené Brown

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

- Beyoncé

"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws, and to stop this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am."

- Anaïs Nin

"Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always."

- Maryam Hasnaa

"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore."

- C. JoyBell

"Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat."

- Warsan Shire

"Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself."

- Tyra Banks

"Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love."

- Alison Malee

"Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort."

- Deborah Day

"I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I'd want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps."

- Emma Stone

"I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?"

- Goldie Hawn

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Treat yourself like someone you love."

- Glennon Doyle

"Gonna love myself. No, I don't need anybody else."

- Hailee Steinfeld

"The universe took its time on you."

- Rupi Kaur

"All love begins with the love within."

- Vironika Tugaleva

"If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that."

- Gisele Bundchen

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Martin Luther King III

"Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow."

- Kim Guerra

"Be the love you never received."

- Rune Lazuli

"You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else."

- Jennifer Lopez

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

- Charlotte Brontë

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

- Rumi

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

- Muhammad Ali

"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

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

- Amanda Gorman

"There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

- Maya Angelou

"As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow."

- Charlie Chaplin

"And I said to my body, 'I want to be your friend.' It took a long breath. And replied, 'I have been waiting my whole life for this."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

- Les Brown

"By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better."

- Laverne Cox

"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

"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

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Robert Schuller

"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

"Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not."

- Robert Kennedy

"Just try new things. Don't be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?"

- Michelle Obama

"When things get hard, stop for a while and look back and see how far you've come. Don't forget how rewarding it is. You are the most beautiful flower, more than anyone else in this world."

- V of BTS

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."

- William Shakespeare

"For me, self-love is like, 'Am I sleeping enough? Eating well?' Not: 'Am I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans?' But: 'Am I eating well to be healthy and strong?' And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good."

- Kerry Washington

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

- Marcus Garvey

"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"

- Rumi

"Our first and last love is self-love."

- Christian Nestell Bovee

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

- Dolly Parton

"Do your thing and don't care if they like it."

- Tina Fey

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."

- Madonna

"Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness."

- Deborah Day

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

- Sally Field

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

- Kurt Cobain

"The same light you see in others is shining within you, too."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud, 'I am lucky to be what I am!"

- Dr. Seuss

"When you say 'yes' to others make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself."

- Paul Klee

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

- Deepak Chopra

"To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections."

- Sandra Bierig

"Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy."

- Suzy Kassem

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."

- Voltaire

"Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it."

- Tina Fey

"If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life."

- Anne Hathaway

"Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand, but ultimately they are indistinguishable."

- M. Scott Peck

"When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better."

- Solange Knowles

"Keep watering yourself. You're growing."

- E.Russell

"You change the world by being yourself."

- Yoko Ono

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

- Walt Whitman

"Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self."

- Queen Latifah

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Plant hope in your heart's wounds."

- Alexandra Vasiliu

"You are kind. You are strong. You are important."

- Kathryn Stockett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you."

- Beyoncé

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

- Toni Morrison

"In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are."

- Steve Maraboli

"You have to believe that your ideas, and your hope, and your being, deserve to take up space."

- Bianca Sparacino

"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."

- Mary Dunbar

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

- Coco Chanel

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Mae Jemison

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Viola Davis

"The things that make me different are the things that make me."

- Piglet

"One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself."

- Dwayne Johnson

"I am stepping right into where I am with no shame, and it feels good."

- Andie MacDowell

"When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"You may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be."

- Michelle Obama

"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them."

- William James

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

- Alice Walker

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Thomas Edison

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It's courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

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

- Confucius

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up."

- Regina Brett

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- William James

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Aristotle

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

- Demi Lovato

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."

- George R.R. Martin

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else."

- E. E. Cummings

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

- Sylvester Stallone

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

- Deep Roy

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Christopher Robin

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I like me. I like my story and all the bumps and bruises. That's what makes me uniquely me."

- Michelle Obama

"I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I'm sure of my love for life and that sort of thing. I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am."

- Dolly Parton

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."

- Socrates

"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice."

- Steve Jobs

"It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

- George Bernard Shaw

"A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better."

- Sidney Poitier

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

- Stephen Hawking

"If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: 'It's gonna go wrong.' Or 'She's going to hurt me.' Or,'I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore...' Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down."

- Ray Bradbury

"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

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

- George Eliot

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will."

- W. Clement Stone

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Michael Altshuler

"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

"The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort."

- Michael Jordan

"There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better."

- Gloria Steinem

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Don't worry if people think you're crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they're destined to be."

- Jennifer Elisabeth

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie

"You will belong here...You will make anywhere beautiful."

- Jasmine Warga

"But I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms."

- Mindy Kaling

"At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person."

- Taraji P. Henson

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Thomas Edison

"I'm safe inside this container called me."

- Haruki Murakami

"Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring. So I go back to being me."

- Ain Eineziz

"Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people, and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference."

- Jane Fonda

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Self-confidence is contagious."

- Stephen Richards

"All lights turned off can be turned on."

- Noah Kahan

"Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently."

- Michelle Obama

"To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"To get what we've never had, we must do what we have never done."

- Juan Casimiro

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Andre Leon Talley

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Alexander the Great

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Cicely Tyson

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- 14th Dalai Lama

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

- Hafez

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Helen Keller

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

- Gandhi

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Frederick Douglass

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."

- Lionel Messi

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning."

- Michel Foucault

"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Albert Einstein

"Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own."

- Michelle Obama

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mark Twain

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

- George Eliot

"The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

- Howard Zinn

"Difficulties are just things to overcome."

- Ernest Shackleton

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

- John Wooden

"The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

- Steve Jobs

"The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do."

- Bob Proctor

"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die tomorrow."

- James Dean

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

- Richard Evans

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

"So many fail because they don't get started."

- W. Clement Stone

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Reba McEntire

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Shinzo Abe

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

- William James

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

- Truman Capote

"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

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Alice

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Things don't have to change the world to be important."

- Steve Jobs

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."

- Katharine Hepburn

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

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

- Winston Churchill

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Steve Jobs

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

- Omar Khayyam

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

- Laozi

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Perseverance brings good fortune."

- the I Ching

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

- Nietzsche

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."

- Nelson Mandela

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others."

- Parker Palmer

"The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead."

- Bette Davis

"It is interesting how often we can't see all the ways in which we are being strong."

- Lena Dunham

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

- Sylvia Plath

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."

- Andre Gide

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius

"Make no comparisons. Keep your head down and do your own thing."

- Torrie Asai

"If you wish to be loved, love."

- Hecaton of Rhodes

"Every exit is an entrance to someplace else."

- Patti LaBelle

"Love. Laugh. And live it up!"

- Christie Brinkley

"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."

- Sophia Loren

"At 54, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be."

- Michelle Obama

"I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did."

- Henry James

"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."

- Jorge Luis Borges

"As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view."

- Madeleine Albright

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

- John F. Kennedy

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."

- Frederick Douglass

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

- Marie Curie

"A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person."

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Ask yourself, 'Who can I make smile this morning?' This is the art of creating happiness."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

- William James

"When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate."

- John Steinbeck

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

- William Shakespeare

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."

- B. Olatunji

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."

- Friedrich Schiller

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

- Warren Buffett

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Socrates

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."

- Oscar Wilde

"Curiosity is the key to problem solving."

- Galileo

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly."

- Salvador Dali

"Beauty comes from a life well lived."

- Jennifer Garner

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

- Napoleon Hill

"Nothing in human judgment is final. One may courageously take the step that seems right today because it can be modified tomorrow if it does not work well."

- Frances Perkins

"People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged."

- Umberto Eco

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

"All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Mikhail Gorbachev

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Mother Theresa

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- E.E. Cummings

"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

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

- Anne Heche

"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."

- Thomas Edison

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

- Katharine Hepburn

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

- Lao Tzu

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Loretta Lynn

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Amy Poehler

"All day long the superior man is creatively active."

- the I Ching

"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."

- Mark Twain

"The hard truth seems to be this: We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. The significance of our lives and our fragile realm derives from our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We would prefer it to be otherwise, of course, but there is no compelling evidence for a cosmic Parent who will care for us and save us from ourselves. It is up to us."

- Carl Sagan

"Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth."

- Shirley Chisholm

"In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigor and precision."

- Lionel Messi

"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."

- Jorge Luis Borges

"All judgment is relative. It may be right today and wrong tomorrow. The only thing that makes it truly right is the desire to have it constantly moving in the right direction."

- Frances Perkins

"You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt."

- Clement Atlee

"System in all things is the soul of business. To deliberate maturely, and execute promptly is the way to conduct it to advantage."

- George Washington

"Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else."

- Albert Einstein

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

- Galileo Galilei

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

"The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be."

- Loesje

"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."

- Cornel West

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

- Grace Kelly

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

- James Caan

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."

- Michelangelo

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Work is love made visible."

- Kahlil Gibran

"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."

- Abraham Maslow

"Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness."

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"Talk to yourself like someone you love."

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

"Keep taking time for yourself until you're you again."

"Tear off the mask, your face is glorious."

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

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