"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
- Henry Ford
Teamwork
"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer
Inspiration
"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."
- Bobby Unser
Success
"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
Taking Risks
"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."
- Estée Lauder
Success
"Dream big and dare to fail."
- Norman Vaughan
Aspirations
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
- Vernon Sanders Law
Learning
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
- Helen Keller
Education
"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."
- Drew Houston
Success
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief in Self
"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."
- Bob Marley
Happiness
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
- Bill Bradley
Success
"Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right."
- Henry Ford
Belief
"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change
"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
- John D. Rockefeller
Change
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
- Alexander Graham Bell
Success
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Reflection
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."
- Les Brown
Empowerment
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
- Jim Rohn
Taking Risks
"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe
Motivation
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’"
- Audrey Hepburn
Aspirations
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
- Charles Kettering
Belief
"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."
- Ingrid Bergman
Happiness
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau
Success
"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Reflection
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
- Lao Tzu
Transformation
"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Success
"Be persistent and never give up hope."
- George Lucas
Perseverance
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
- Nikki Giovanni
Learning from Mistakes
"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."
- Paulo Coelho
Success
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
Generosity
"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."
- W.P. Kinsella
Taking Risks
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failures are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
- Dale Carnegie
Success
"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."
- Jon Bon Jovi
Success
"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."
- Oprah Winfrey
Learning from Mistakes
"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
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
- Og Mandino
Hard Work
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."
- Wayne Gretzky
Taking Risks
"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."
- Helen Keller
Ambition
"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
Success
"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."
- Alice Walker
Empowerment
"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."
- Drew Barrymore
Growth
"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"
- Seth Godin
Ambition
"Success is walking from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Success
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
- Malcolm X
Success
"We become what we think about most of the time."
- Earl Nightingale
Belief in Self
"Action is the foundational key to success."
- Pablo Picasso
Success
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill
Motivation
"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."
- Leonard I. Sweet
Vision
"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."
- Ellen DeGeneres
Self-awareness
"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."
- Serena Williams
Belief in Self
"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett
Ambition
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."
- Audrey Hepburn
Happiness
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
New Beginnings
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
- Oprah Winfrey
Ambition
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."
- Michael Jordan
Courage
"You’ve got to be in it to win it."
- Tony Robbins
Motivation
"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."
- Confucius
Perseverance
"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."
- Dolly Parton
Self-awareness
"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
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Facing Fears
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Aspirations
"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."
- Deepak Chopra
Ambition
"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
"It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it."
- Sue Hadfield
Courage
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
- Og Mandino
Resilience
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."
- Zig Ziglar
Positivity
"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
- T.S. Eliot
New Beginnings
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Transformation
"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."
- Muhammad Ali
Time Management
"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."
- Wayne Dyer
Belief in Self
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie
Awareness
"Change the world by being yourself."
- Amy Poehler
Independence
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"Your life only gets better when you get better."
- Brian Tracy
Self-improvement
"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
- Jim Rohn
Happiness
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."
- Michael Jordan
Teamwork
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."
- Brian Tracy
Integrity
"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."
- Maya Angelou
Motivation
"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
- Rob Siltanen
Change
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
- Warren Buffett
Contribution
"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."
- Brian Tracy
Leadership
"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."
- Marvin Gaye
Compassion
"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
"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."
- Mae Jemison
Ambition
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
- Mae West
Contentment
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Compassion
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contribution
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage
"The time is always right to do what is right."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Integrity
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Courage
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."
- Winston Churchill
Optimism
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Success
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
- Sir Winston Churchill
Compassion
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
- Winston Churchill
Change
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Resilience
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t."
- Thomas A. Edison
Resilience
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
Self-confidence
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Facing Fears
"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Happiness
"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."
- Oprah Winfrey
Empowerment
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
- Dale Carnegie
Success
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
Reflection
"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
"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
Success
"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."
- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Success
"80% of success is showing up."
- Woody Allen
Success
"You can design your own life."
- Carrie Ann Moss
Personal Growth
"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
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."
- Lou Holtz
Motivation
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'"
- Audrey Hepburn
Belief in Self
"You do not find the happy life. You make it."
- Camilla Eyring Kimball
Happiness
"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
Love
"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions."
- Dalai Lama
Happiness
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
- Aristotle
Hope
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."
- Brian Tracy
Growth
"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
- George Addair
Facing Fears
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
- Helen Keller
Courage
"Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality."
- Brian Tracy
Self-confidence
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."
- Nelson Mandela
Motivation
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
- E.E. Cummings
Courage
"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
- Zig Ziglar
Success
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
- Vince Lombardi
Achievement
"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."
- Malala Yousafzai
Future
"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney
Motivation
"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up."
- Vince Lombardi
Resilience
"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
- Jimmy Dean
Adaptation
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Courage
"We become what we think about."
- Earl Nightingale
Belief
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
Optimism
"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."
- Robert H. Schuller
Achievement
"The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!"
- Brian Tracy
Success
"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
Happiness
"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
- William James
Mindfulness
"Belief creates the actual fact."
- William James
Belief
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
- William James
Contribution
"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."
- William James
Change
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau
Aspirations
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau
Goals
"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
- Oprah Winfrey
Resilience
"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
- Oprah Winfrey
Motivation
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not."
- Oprah Winfrey
Integrity
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Resilience
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivation
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
Imagination
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."
- Paulo Coelho
Aspirations
"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."
- Brian Tracy
Optimism
"Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?"
- Brian Tracy
Vision
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."
- Maya Angelou
Success
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Motivation
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
- Zig Ziglar
New Beginnings
"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further."
- Thomas Carlyle
Vision
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in 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
Independence
"The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you."
- Brian Tracy
Leadership
"Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do."
- Brian Tracy
Vision
"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
"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Courage
"To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage."
- Confucius
Courage
"The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly."
- Brian Tracy
Leadership
"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
"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’"
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Hope
"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."
- Edwin Elliot
Self-awareness
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
- Viktor Frankl
Overcoming Obstacles
"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."
- Marilyn Monroe
Happiness
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."
- John Barrymore
Happiness
"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
- Duke Ellington
Motivation
"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."
- Annette Funicello
Contentment
"The best way out is through."
- Robert Frost
Overcoming Obstacles
"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
- Robert Brault
Contentment
"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."
- Jennifer Aniston
Reflection
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
- Margaret Fuller
Learning
"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."
- Jonah Hill
Ambition
"When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."
- Pittacus Lore
Hope
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
- Bill Gates
Learning from Mistakes
"Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success."
- Robert T. Kiyosaki
Failure
"Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."
- Arianna Huffington
Failure
"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."
- Arianna Huffington
Failure
"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."
- Vince Lombardi
Perseverance
"There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
- General Colin Powell
Success
"There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning."
- Roy T. Bennett
Success
"If you don’t have a goal in mind, you can’t expect to achieve it."
- Frank Sonnenberg
Goals
"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference."
- Lou Holtz
Hard Work
"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."
- Farrah Gray
Ambition
"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
- Elbert Hubbard
Perseverance
"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes."
- Andrew Carnegie
Goals
"Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you."
- Jeffrey Gitomer
Empowerment
"Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word ‘fear’ from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can’t fail."
- Alicia Keys
Courage
"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."
- Oprah Winfrey
Independence
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Awareness
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
- Tony Robbins
Goals
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
- Muhammad Ali
Courage
"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-awareness
"Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
- Confucius
Goals
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas A. Edison
Learning from Mistakes
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
- Charles R. Swindoll
Mindfulness
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy
Resilience
"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."
- Jessica Savitch
Goals
"Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward."
- Roy T. Bennett
Failure
"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
Goals
"The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."
- Roy T. Bennett
Courage
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."
- Henry David Thoreau
Aspirations
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
- William James
Mindfulness
"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen."
- Deep Roy
Positivity
"Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences."
- Brian Tracy
Leadership
"Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today."
- Will Rogers
Time Management
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."
- Charles Dickens
Change
"When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another…"
- J.A. Tran
Change
"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."
- Queen Elizabeth II
Transformation
"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time."
- Don Zimmer
Hard Work
"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."
- Hasidic Proverb
Self-confidence
"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy."
- Dr. Henry Link
Facing Fears
"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."
- Lady Gaga
Success
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot."
- Michael Altshuler
Time Management
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
Happiness
"You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today."
- James Dean
Personal Growth
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius
Awareness
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"People with ambition don’t give a damn what other people think of them."
- Diane Setterfield
Ambition
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
- Karim Seddiki
Courage
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
- Allen Saunders
Change
"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take."
- Lewis Carroll
Reflection
"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."
- Tony Robbins
Goals
"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."
- Danny Boyle
Hope
"My belief in life is that you need only three things to get to the top- Talent, Ambition and Initiative."
- Ankit Patni
Ambition
"Change course, but don’t give up."
- Roy T. Bennett
Perseverance
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
- Walt Disney
Growth
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
- Lance Armstrong
Perseverance
"Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do."
- Brian Tracy
Gratitude
"Your focus should be on becoming a type of person you want to be, not a specific goal."
- James Clear
Personal Growth
"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."
- Lindsey Vonn
Change
"Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears…"
- Nitya Prakash
Self-awareness
"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."
- Halle Bailey
Joy
"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."
- John Wooden
Positivity
"Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."
- Nicole Kidman
Courage
"I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."
- Michael Phelps
Goals
"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost
Philosophy
"Every closed door isn’t locked and even if it is…YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!"
- Sanjo Jendayi
Adaptation
"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
"Life has got those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."
- Nicole Kidman
Change
"Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
Change
"Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body."
- Brian Tracy
Education
"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
- Chuck Palahniuk
Contribution
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
- J.M. Barrie
Personal Growth
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
- Henry C. Link
Learning from Mistakes
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
- Albert Einstein
Creativity
"Life is a journey, not a destination."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivation
"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy
"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"
- Max Levchin
Self-awareness
"Never be afraid of failure. And don’t stop yourself from doing something you want to do because of what others might think. Only you know yourself best."
- Suki Waterhouse
Courage
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”"
- Audrey Hepburn
Belief in Self
"It’s the pain and failure that teaches you the best lesson in life and motivates you to rebuild yourself and stand again with a robust faith."
- Priti Chaubey
Failure
"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."
- Thomas A. Edison
Hard Work
"Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It’s also a powerful motivator."
- Yogi Berra
Failure
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
- Josh Billings
Adversity
"Impossible is just an opinion."
- Paulo Coelho
Belief in Self
"You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."
- Alan Alda
Self-awareness
"You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment."
- Israelmore Ayivor
Motivation
"Do it again. Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it again. Because again is practice, and practice is improvement, and improvement only leads to perfection."
- Richelle E. Goodrich
Perseverance
"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."
- Stephanie Perkins
Self-awareness
"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."
- Sofia Vergara
Self-confidence
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."
- Mother Teresa
Compassion
"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."
- Thomas A. Edison
Insight
"A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford
Relationships
"Light tomorrow with today!"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hope
"When it comes to your dreams, every risk is worth it."
- Joel Brown
Taking Risks
"Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur."
- Mohnish Pabrai
Adaptation
"You get what you give."
- Jennifer Lopez
Generosity
"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"
- Zendaya
Positivity
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
- Margaret Mead
Self-awareness
"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals."
- Roy Bennett
Gratitude
"You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."
- Mandy Hale
Mindfulness
"Change the game, don’t let the game change you."
- Macklemore
Change
"Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything."
- Marilyn Monroe
Failure
"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."
- Stephen McCranie
Failure
"Life is not about a goal to be achieved, but a goal to be reached."
- Pawan Pandit
Goals
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
- George Washington Carver
Failure
"Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life."
- John Landis Mason
Time Management
"Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change."
- Barbara Baron
Motivation
"Goals must stretch and test your cognitive skills for results achievement."
- Invajy
Goals
"Focus on yourself and your goals and don’t get distracted by dishonesty and disloyalty from people, who only waste your time and energy!"
- Lily Amis
Focus
"Every master was once a disaster."
- David T.S Wood
Personal Growth
"In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart."
- Omid Kordgstani
Choice
"On any given Monday I am one sale closer and one idea away from being a millionaire."
- Larry D. Turner
Ambition
"Sometimes, you have to give up. Sometimes, knowing when to give up, when to try something else, is genius. Giving up doesn’t mean stopping. Don’t ever stop."
- Phil Knight
Perseverance
"Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet."
- Robert H. Schuller
Failure
"I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it."
- Lou Holtz
Failure
"It hurt because it mattered."
- John Green
Compassion
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
- Henry David Thoreau
Time Management
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
- Henry David Thoreau
Love
"The real risk is doing nothing."
- Denis Waitley
Courage
"Self-doubt kills talent."
- Edie McClurg
Self-confidence
"Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher full of poison with milk on top."
- Chanakya
Wisdom
"The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."
- Chanakya
Wisdom
"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
Aspirations
"Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are."
Motivation
"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."
Belief
"There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking."
Belief in Self
"For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."
Empowerment
"Great things never come from comfort zones."
Growth
"When you feel like quitting, remember why you started."
Motivation
"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."
Failure
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