100+ Inspirational Quotes About Trying: Fuel Your Determination and Never Give Up

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Winston Churchill

"Can I do it? I'd rather not try and fail." "That's stupid talk, Maya. Every try will not succeed. But if you're going to live, live at all, your business is trying. And if you fail once, so what? Old folks say, Every shuteye ain't sleep and every goodbye ain't gone. You fail, you get up and try again."

- Maya Angelou

"Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"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, Jr.

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"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

"Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Chris Bradford

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Bill Gates

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Ariana Huffington

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Paul Bryant

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Bruce Lee

"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

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordo

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Epicurus

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

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

- Cindy Gallop

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Cindy Gallop

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Roseanne Barr

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Confucius Kongzi

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- David Brinkley

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

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

- Tina Fey

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- George Eliot

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

- Les Brown

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- John Wooden

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- William James

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- David Ogilvy

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- George Eliot

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- W. Clement Stone

"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

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Bob Proctor

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Will Rogers

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- Tony Robbins

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Maria Robinson

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

"To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today."

- Tim Fargo

"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

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

- George Edward Woodberry

"How to win in life: 1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow 5 don't let people tell you it cant be done 6 make no excuses"

- Germany Kent

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

- John Barrow

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take."

- Lewis Carroll

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of only standing still."

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

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

- Juan Casimiro

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

- James Dean

"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Abraham Maslov

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- W. Clement Stone

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Regina Brett

"Maybe the hardest part of life is just having the courage to try."

- Rachel Hollis

"The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Loesje

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

- William Shakespeare

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Friedrich Schiller

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

- Pierre Corneille

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

- Richard Evans

"Embrace the uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later."

- Bob Goff

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

- B. Olatunji

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

- Catherine Pulsifer

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Charlie Munger

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Dorothy West

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

- David Hurley

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Byron Pulsifer

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

- Dave Carolan

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Michelangelo

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Steve Furtick

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Warren Buffet

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- Epictetus

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- S. O’ Sade

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

"When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it."

- Margaret Chase Smith

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

- Tina Fey

"A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better."

- George R.R. Martin

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

- Constance Wu

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!"

- T. D. Jakes

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

- George Meredith

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough."

- David Levithan

"If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)"

- Mercedes Lackey

"We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life."

- Colleen Hoover

"Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good."

- Dejan Stojanovic

"But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--"

- Hubert Selby Jr.

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

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"There is no such thing as failure, only feedback."

"A year from now you will wish you had started today."

"Don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the magic happens."

"The only way to learn is to keep trying new things and making mistakes."

"If you don’t try, you’ll never know what you’re capable of."

"Step out of the comfort zone and into the growth zone."

"Don’t be afraid to try something new. It might be the best thing you ever do."

"Take risks, they’re the only way to learn."

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

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

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

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