Inspiring Work Quotes to Motivate Employees

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Helen Keller

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Robert Schuller

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn."

- Satya Nadella

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

- Kevin Kruse

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work."

- Jonathan Sack

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

- Robert Hall

"Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit."

- Helena Rubinstein

"With confidence, you have won before you have started."

- Marcus Garvey

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is the real sense of fulfilment that comes from hard work."

- Joseph Barbara

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck."

- Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it."

- H.E. Luccock

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

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

- Pele

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Tony Robbins

"Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit — the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well—being."

- Greg Anderson

"Happiness is the highest form of health."

- Dalai Lama

"You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do."

- Henry Ford

"What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world."

- Simon Sinek

"I will prepare, and someday my chance will come."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Aristotle

"The secret of getting ahead, is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Winston Churchill

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re probably right."

- Henry Ford

"I will prepare and someday my chance will come."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

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

- Jim Rohn

"You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context."

- José Mourinho

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

"You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you."

- Barack Obama

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."

- Harvey S. Firestone

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right."

- Henry Ford

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

- Henry Ford

"Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."

- Patrick Suskind

"A strong, positive self—image is the best possible preparation for success."

- Joyce Brothers

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

- Maya Angelou

"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."

- Antos Parrish

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston S. Churchill

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed. You’re not gonna succeed all the time and I know that."

- LeBron James

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Mark Cuban

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

- Michael Jordan

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace."

- Doug Conant

"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

"You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results."

- Wade Boggs

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Molière

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

- Ayn Rand

"Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly, you’re doing the impossible."

- Francis of Assisi

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."

- Ralph Marston

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- George Addair

"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be."

- Lou Holtz

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Lucille Ball

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did."

- Mark Twain

"If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily."

- Jack Canfield

"Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

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

- George Eliot

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Robin Williams

"Fulfillment isn’t found over the rainbow—it’s found in the here and now. Today I define success by the fluidity with which I transcend emotional landmines and choose joy and gratitude instead."

- RuPaul

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime."

- Babe Ruth

"Whatever you decide to do, do it with passion and all of the energy that you have."

- Mary Barra

"Time goes on. So whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait."

- Robert De Niro

"It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."

- J.K.Rowling

"Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadows."

- Helen Keller

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

- Vince Lombardi

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsleigh

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Paulo Coelho

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."

- Neil Gaiman

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"We must all learn not only to not fear change, but to embrace it enthusiastically and, perhaps even more important, encourage and drive it."

- Tony Hsieh

"If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything."

- Malcolm X

"If you don’t understand, ask questions. If you’re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It’s easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore."

- Michele Ruiz

"Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win."

- Tom Brady

"The most important investment you can make is in yourself."

- Warren Buffett

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."

- Edmund Hillary

"It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

- Zig Ziglar

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Steve Jobs

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

- Ken Blanchard

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."

- James Cash Penney

"It’s not about the number of hours you put in, but rather what you put into those hours."

- Simon Sinek

"Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and again and bring their friend."

- Walt Disney

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."

- Banksy

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Mark Zuckerberg

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

- Thomas Edison

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."

- Jane Goodall

"The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone."

- Karen Salmansohn

"If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path."

- Buddha

"Well done, is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

"By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well."

- Richard Branson

"Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Zig Ziglar

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone."

- Michael John Bobak

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

- Hermann Hesse

"Don’t try to be the ‘next.’ Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new."

- Seth Godin

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

- Seneca

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

- Albert Einstein

"Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much of Today."

- Will Rogers

"Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does."

- Warren Buffet

"You can worry about the competition…or you can focus on what’s ahead of you and drive fast."

- Jack Dorsey

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It takes courage to step off of the familiar to embrace the new and unknown future. But when you do, the possibilities are endless."

- Successories

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell."

- David Ogilvy

"Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible."

- Ronnie Oldham

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."

- Henry J. Kaiser

"Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination."

- Chris Hadfield

"Creativity is contagious. Pass it on."

- Albert Einstein

"You just have to keep driving down the road. It’s going to bend and curve and you’ll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Becoming is better than being."

- Carol Dweck

"You can have all the potential in the world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing."

- Tyra Banks

"First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events."

- Marie Curie

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt."

- Henry J. Kaiser

"We all tend to filter the world around us through what we know. So try and go beyond what you already know, fill your mind with the new, nourish it with different interests, open it to the extraordinary."

- Sergio Marchionne

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

- Coco Chanel

"If two men on the same job agree all the time, one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless."

- Darryl F. Zanuck

"Refuse failure. No matter how difficult the obstacles, find a way to around them."

- JJ Goldwag

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

- David Brinkley

"When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed, and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top."

- Paul Coffey

"Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges."

- Bryant McGill

"Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish."

- Bill Gates

"If you’re alive, you’re a creative person."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

- Joseph Campbell

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Marie Curie

"Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting."

- Larry Page

"Be sought for with ardor and diligence."

- Abigail Adams

"Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that."

- Ellen Degeneres

"Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."

- Denis Waitley

"Someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn't make a difference in the world. I think that's just a horrible thing."

- John Skoll

"There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither."

- Alan Cohen

"far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore."

- Michele Ruiz

"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed."

- Bob Riley

"Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation."

- William Arthur Ward

"The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don’t want to live in regret."

- Chloe Kim

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the Earth."

- William Faulkner

"The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?"

- Steve Schulte

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

- Jim Rohn

"Getting the right people and the right chemistry is more important than the right idea."

- Ed Catmull

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose."

- Bill Gates

"The world is full of ideas today. If we don’t do it, somebody else is going to do it."

- Indra Nooyi

"The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends."

- Michael Scott

"There is no greater disability in society than the inability to see a person as more."

- Robert M. Hensel

"There is only one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing. Be nothing. Say nothing."

- Aristotle

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

- Abraham Maslow

"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren’t even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they’re doing it."

- Anne Lamott

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

- George R.R. Martin

"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate–it’s either in their DNA or it’s not."

- Richard Branson

"If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."

- Anita Roddick

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

- Bill Gates

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

- Michelle Obama

"Don’t let the bastards grind you down."

- Margaret Atwood

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision."

- Ben Horowitz

"Hire character. Train skill."

- Peter Schutz

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."

- Anita Roddick

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."

- Mark Twain

"Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways."

- Bob Nelson

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."

- Dalai Lama

"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

"Staying positive does not mean that things will turn out okay. Rather it is knowing that you will be okay no matter how things turn out."

- Garth Ennis

"The cynics may be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least."

- Barack Obama

"I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?"

- Jill Konrath

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."

- A.C. Benson

"You were hired because you met expectations, you will be promoted if you can exceed them."

- Saji Ijiyemi

"Embrace the pain to inherit the gain."

- Habeeb Akande

"With so many people saying it couldn’t be done, all it takes is an imagination."

- Michael Phelps

"The more things you’re interested in, the better your work will be."

- Michael Bierut

"If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room."

- Confucius

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

- Truman Capote

"Genius is born—not paid."

- Oscar Wilde

"Taking risks doesn’t mean shirking responsibility, but embracing possibilities."

- Vick Hope

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

- Socrates

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Life is unpredictable. Don’t close your minds to possibilities."

- Llyod Blankfein

"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain."

- Mildred Struven

"If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing."

- Ernest Hemingway

"A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone."

- Chinua Achebe

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed...every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."

- Proverb

"You be greater than your feelings. I don’t demand this of you—life does. Otherwise, you’ll be washed away by feelings. You’ll be washed out to sea and never seen again."

- Phillip Roth

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

- Plato

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

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

- Charles Dickens

"Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head."

- Donald Knuth

"It ain’t over ’til it’s over."

- Yogi Berra

"It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride."

- Rebecca Wells

"No risk it, no biscuit."

- Andy Reid

"There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job."

- Terence Fletcher

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Be undeniable."

- Ralphie May

"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

- Nikola Tesla

"If you hit the target every time, it’s too near or too big."

- Tom Hirshfield

"Whatever you do, always give 100% — unless you’re donating blood."

- Bill Murray

"The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two."

- Douglas Adams

"I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Alice

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Do what you know is right always. With commitment to your deepest convictions you stand tall against time and tide."

"Every second counts."

"Take the initiative and lead the way. You can make the difference."