Inspiring Work Week Quotes to Motivate Your Mondays

"When you believe in yourself and follow your own path, you can accomplish anything."

- Malik Ducard

"Friday is a day to finish your goals for the week. It is a day to celebrate that which you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the week."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Spend 80% of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."

- Brian Tracy

"The key to productivity is to focus on one task at a time."

- Gary Keller

"Productivity is not about working more hours, it's about working smarter."

- Elon Musk

"Friday is a day to be happy and thankful for the week that was. A day to look forward to the weekend with a smile."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Lost time is never found again."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Success is not about being the best; it's about always getting better."

- Scott Belsky

"A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start."

- Rand Fishkin

"It's never too late to be what you might've been."

- George Eliot

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Wayne Dyer

"[My biggest mistake is probably] weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."

- Elon Musk

"If you want to be productive, you need to be selective."

- Tim Ferriss

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently."

- Warren Buffett

"Age should not limit your dreams. The world is waiting for your magic."

- Nikhil Kamath

"Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life."

- Ken Poirot

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

- Stephen Hawking

"The only sustainable way to win is to enable others."

- Boyong Ma

"We need to be bold and ambitious in our thinking about how we can solve the world's problems."

- Elon Musk

"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The good, the bad, it’s all part of the success equation."

- Mark Cuban

"I just love it when people say I can’t do it, there’s nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it."

- Ted Turner

"I love Mondays because it's the start of a new week with new opportunities. I'm excited to see what the week brings!"

- Arianna Huffington

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Monday Morning Blues? Why not change the color of your Monday to yellow and brighten up the coming week?"

- Kanika Saxena

"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

"Hey, I know it’s Monday. But it’s also a new day and a new week. And in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen."

- Michael Ely

"Monday, the start of a new week, with brand-new opportunities to enjoy all that life has to offer."

- Audrey Carlan

"I must break the routines and become a person who becomes productive every Monday. I must break the mindset of unhappiness and turn myself into a happy magnet for Mondays."

- Leggy Saul

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

- Maria Robinson

"Without the weekend, where would the week be?"

- Anthony T. Hincks

"I believe that every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, regardless of their background."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein

"I believe that business is the greatest platform for change."

- Blake Mycoskie

"Productivity is not an accident. It is always the result of commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."

- Paul J. Meyer

"Friday is like a green light; you speed up until after work and start to slow down once the light turns yellow."

- El Fuego

"Make each day of the week like Friday and your life will take on new enthusiasm."

- Byron Pulsifer

"The key to success is to be authentic and true to yourself."

- Zoe Foster Blake

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- George Herbert

"Before dreaming about the future or making plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do."

- Reid Hoffman

"I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."

- Jeff Bezos

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"Success begins with believing in yourself."

- Sam Kerr

"Do not try to be someone else. You're not living your life for somebody else; you're living your life for yourself."

- Zendaya

"If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big."

- Ben Silbermann

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

- Jules Renard

"I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real."

- Sean Parker

"Don't be afraid to delegate."

- Richard Branson

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

- Winston Churchill

"Don't be busy; be productive. Don't just get through the day; get something from the day."

- Tony Robbins

"I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action."

- Mae Jemison

"There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world."

- Phil Libin

"If you can help your people have clarity of what their role is, they can achieve amazing things – particularly when the entrepreneur empowers them with responsibility."

- Creel Price

"This should be the spirit every Monday. Know that something good will always happen."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"We can be whatever we have the courage to see."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Herman Melville

"When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it’s Monday or Friday; you would be so excited to wake up each morning to work on your passions."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"If we can challenge convention, we can solve any problem."

- Josh Valman

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Storms make trees take deeper roots."

- Dolly Parton

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Henry Ford

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

- Rumi

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

- Karen Lamb

"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

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Thomas Edison

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

""The only way to do great work is to love what you do.""

- Steve Jobs

""Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made.""

- Gabby Douglas

""I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.""

- Jeff Bezos

""If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.""

- Fred Devito

""Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.""

- Sam Levenson

""The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.""

- Vince Lombardi

""A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.""

- Billie Jean King

""In baseball and in business, there are three types of people. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.""

- Tommy Lasorda

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Jessica Ennis-Hill

""I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.""

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Neale Donald Walsch

""If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.""

- Ben Hogan

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

""Change your thoughts and you change your world.""

- Norman Vincent Peale

""Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.""

- Winston Churchill

""The first step is you have to say that you can.""

- Will Smith

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Peter Drucker

""The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.""

- Jordan Belfort

""If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?""

- Joe Namath

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

- Charles Kingsley

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- Zig Ziglar

""Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.""

- Albert Schweitzer

""An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.""

- Emil Zatopek

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""You will never plow a field if you only turn it over in your mind.""

- Irish proverb

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Vidal Sassoon

""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.""

- Steve Jobs

""He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.""

- Muhammad Ali

""Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.""

- Bobby Unser

""Champions keep playing until they get it right.""

- Billie Jean King

""You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.""

- Michael Phelps

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

- Bo Jackson

""I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.""

- Simone Biles

""You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.""

- Richard Branson

""There is no substitute for hard work.""

- Thomas Edison

""You become what you believe.""

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Bethany Hamilton

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."

- Olin Miller

"It's not about what you couldn't do all week; it's about what you can do on a Friday."

- Nancy Johnson

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

- Robert Frost

"Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them."

- Vaibhav Shah

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"You have to see failure as the beginning and the middle, but never entertain it as an end."

- Jessica Herrin

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

- Jimmy Dean

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Maya Angelou

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now."

- Chinese Proverb

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"

- Steve Jobs

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

- Don Marquis

"My point is life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The piña and the colada."

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Joe Girard

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

- Oscar Wilde

"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."

- Arnold Glasow

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

"You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic."

- Zig Ziglar

"Greatness is defined by how much you want to put into what you do."

- LeBron James

"There’s no committee that says, ‘This is the type of person who can change the world – and you can’t.’ Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you’re going to do it."

- Adora Svitak

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"Trust your idea enough to know that it can challenge the status quo."

- Arlyn Davich

"Don't be afraid to stand out and be different. Your uniqueness is your greatest strength."

- Janine Allis

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The plan is to fan this spark into a flame."

- Lin Manuel Miranda

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Charles Dickens

"To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way."

- Henry Link

"You don't achieve success by taking it easy or working on it later. You achieve it through persistence and hard work."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

- Robert Schuller

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed."

- Abraham Lincoln

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

- Rosa Parks

"There is no traffic jam along the extra mile."

- Roger Staubach

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Ralph Marston

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

- George S. Patton

"If money is your first thought when you wake up, you need to dream bigger."

- Lisa Messenger

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility."

- Michelle Obama

"Know that something good will always happen."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you."

- Albert Einstein

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Julie Andrews

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Dolly Parton

"Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you."

- Tony Morgan

"If plan ‘A’ doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan."

- Claire Cook

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now."

- Margaret Fuller

"I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible."

- Robert Schuller

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor."

- Brian Tracy

"I never dreamt of success. I worked for it."

- Estee Lauder

"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

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."

- G.K. Nielson

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Challenges are what makes life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

- Nelson Mandela

"I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

- Maya Angelou

"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

- Shiv Khera

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities."

- Sophia Amoruso

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

- Louis Pasteur

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Walter Elliot

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you…never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"It’s always too soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying."

- John C. Maxwell

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Walter Anderson

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"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

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"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

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Nelson Mandela

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Steve Jobs

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"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

"What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?"

- Karen Salmansohn

"Fears are nothing more than a state of mind."

- Napoleon Hill

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Walt Disney

"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

"Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

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

- Tim Notke

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

- Colin Powell

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

- Frank Ocean

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Aristotle

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It’s the mastery of fear."

- Arianna Huffington

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action."

- Tony Robbins

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal--a commitment to excellence--that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

- Mario Andretti

"If you are not where you want to be, do not quit. Instead reinvent yourself and change your habits."

- Eric Thomas

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."

- Joel Osteen

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

"The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible."

- Joel Brown

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary."

- Ross Simmonds

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Anne Frank

"Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up."

- Isabelle Lafleche

"Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing."

- William Arthur Ward

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day it usually is."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."

- Zig Ziglar

"Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live."

- Anne Sweeney

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

- William Patten

"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."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Michele Ruiz

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

- Nelson Mandela

"I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’"

- Leah Busque

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."

- Galatians 6:9

"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

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

- John C. Maxwell

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

- Biz Stone

"When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts."

- Larry Ellison

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

- Napoleon Hill

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."

- William Durant

"If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."

- Gary Ryan Blair

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"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

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

- Thomas Foxwell Buxton

"It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John Rockefeller

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

- Marie Curie

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”"

- Sydney Harris

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"Success is my only option, failure’s not."

- Eminem

"A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"It’s always the hard part that creates value."

- Seth Godin

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."

- Helen Keller

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it."

- Estee Lauder

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Dalai Lama

"If you look for perfection, you will never be content."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

- Henry Ford

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.’"

- Cory Booker

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

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

- Michael Jordan

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Jonathan Sacks

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Robert Hall

"What’s dangerous is not to evolve."

- Jeff Bezos

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."

- Mark Cuban

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work."

- Stephen King

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Winston Churchill

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Henry Ford

"A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B.F. Skinner

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

- Aristotle

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Winston Churchill

"Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."

- Haile Gebrselassie

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"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.

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

- Saint Francis

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work—and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

- Lucille Ball

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done."

- Robin Sharma

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you ‘Wrong way. Turn around.'"

- Oprah Winfrey

"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute."

- Simon Sinek

"You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so… get on your way!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job."

- Scott and Kelly Blanchard

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."

- Eraldo Banovac

"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret."

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Albert Einstein

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that."

- Herb Kelleher

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else."

- Vince Lombardi

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Bob Nelson

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

- Douglas MacArthur

"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."

- Bob Nelson

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

- Stephen Covey

"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’"

- Komil Toume

"If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work."

- Ari Weinzweig

"Employees aren't just workers, they're the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business."

- Kilroy J. Oldster

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Harry Golden

"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

"Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t."

- Gertrude B. Elion

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say."

- Barbara McClintock

"Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

- George Lucas

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

- Robert Collier

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

- Joyce Brothers

"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

"I break chains all by myself / Won’t let my freedom rot in hell / Hey! I’ma keep running / ‘Cause a winner don't quit on themselves"

- Beyoncé

"Before I started, I decided that I’d only pursue this career if my self-worth was dependent on more than celebrity success."

- Beyoncé

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you’re succeeding. People do not get scared when you’re failing. It calms them. But when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them."

- Mindy Kaling

"There will be people who say to you, ‘You are out of your lane.’ They are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what can be. But don’t you let that burden you."

- Kamala Harris

"There will always be hurdles in life, but if you want to achieve a goal, you must continue."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- David Frost

"What I’ve realized is that confidence is a daily journey. We always think that confidence is a destination we must get to, but it’s a choice we make. I don’t think it’s something we ever really get to and stay at. And I think once you know that, it takes the pressure off."

- Jonathan van Ness

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Simone Biles

"Self-care is really rooted in self-preservation, just like self-love is rooted in honesty. We have to start being more honest with what we need, and what we deserve, and start serving that to ourselves. It can be a spa day! But for a lot of people, it's more like, I need a mentor. I need someone to talk to. I need to see someone who looks like me that's successful, that's doing the things that I want to do, to know that it's possible."

- Lizzo

"The reality is: Sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens. And it happens when it needs to happen. And you need to embrace those things."

- Beyoncé

"Owning up to your vulnerabilities is a form of strength."

- Lizzo

"I dream it / I work hard / I grind ’til I own it"

- Beyoncé

"Trust yourself. You probably know more than you think you do… Trust that you can learn anything."

- Melinda French Gates

"Do not let anyone ever tell you who you are."

- Kamala Harris

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

- Jack London

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Anne Frank

"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

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

- Maya Angelou

"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Calvin Coolidge

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way."

- Proverb

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

- Florence Nightingale

"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."

- Joyce Chapman

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

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Kevin Kruse

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Patrick Suskind

"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."

- Michael Lopp

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

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

- David Brinkley

"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

- Dale Carnegie

"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."

- Pete Cashmore

"Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others."

- Nathaniel Branden

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

"All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves."

- Jag Randhawa

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

- Hasidic Proverb

"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."

- Harvey Mackay

"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."

- Fred Allen

"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."

- Angela Ahrendts

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

- Stanley McChrystal

"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."

- Meghan M. Biro

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

"Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole."

- Tracy Streckenbach

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

- Arnold Glasow

"Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company."

- Zig Ziglar

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."

- Margaret Thatcher

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win."

- Emily Voyles

"It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together."

- Lloyd Dobens

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

- Brian Tracy

"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

- Paulo Coelho

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."

- Simon Sinek

"Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation."

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

"People want to know they matter, and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract."

- Pamela Stroko

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

- Brandon Sanderson

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

- Will Rogers

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

"Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any."

- Danielle Fotopoulis

"And how do you know when you’re doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you’re supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better."

- Melinda French Gates

"The more I want to get something done the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

"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

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

- Tricia Cunningham

"Whether I fail or succeed, it’s the going for it."

- Jonathan van Ness

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

- James Russell Lowell

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

- Confucius

"Ignorance is always afraid of change."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

- Voltaire

"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

- George M. Moore Jr.

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

- George Edward Woodberry

"Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’"

- Richard Carlson

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

"Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo."

- Jon Sinclair

"Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

- Robert Orben

"A minute’s success pays the failure of years."

- Robert Browning

"The key to success is to start before you are ready."

- Marie Forleo

"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Albert Einstein

"At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can."

- Frida Kahlo

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- William James

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

- Helen Keller

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before."

- Albert Einstein

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you."

- Fred Devito

"Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships."

- Michael Jordan

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

- Billie Jean King

"Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding, nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result."

- Joe Torre

"Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams."

- Brad Sugars

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

- Yoda

"Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not."

- Mary Shelley

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

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

- Neil Gaiman

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

- J.M. Barrie

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

- George Addair

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning."

- Margaret Heffernan

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

- Charles Dickens

"I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich."

- Jim Carrey

"Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig."

- Cheryl Strayed

"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

"We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Failure it appears is not the regret that haunts most people; it is the choice not to risk failure at all."

- Dr. John Izzo

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"We will either find a way or make one."

- Hannibal

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way."

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Yoda

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

- Ayn Rand

"Not knowing you can’t do something is sometimes all it takes to do it."

- Ally Carter

"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow."

- Denis Waitley

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"If you can’t make a mistake you can’t make anything."

- Marva Collins

"Your goal should be just out of reach. But not out of sight."

- Remi Witt

"Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learning. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path."

- Phillip Sweet

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

- Banksy

"You are not your resume, you are your work."

- Seth Godin

"If a mind thinks with a believing attitude, one can do amazing things."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."

- Meister Eckhart

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

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

- Alice Walker

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

- Napoleon Hill

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream."

- Debby Boone

"If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real."

- Tony Robbins

"When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be."

- Lao Tzu

"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."

- Rumi

"Work is not only a means of earning a living: it is also a place where we express ourselves, feel useful, and learn the great lesson of concreteness, which helps keep the spiritual life from becoming spiritualism."

- Pope Francis

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The first step forward is to admit your fear, then you can take the next step to conquer it."

- Ken Poirot

"Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage."

- Amelia Earhart

"Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career."

- Ryan Freitas

"The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender."

- David Allen

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'"

- Mark Zuckerberg

"Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life."

- Grant Cardone

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

- Henry Ford

"Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you."

- Tony Hsieh

"It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Don't wait for opportunity. Create it."

- Chris Grosser

"The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there."

- Vince Lombardi

"No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become “Successful.”"

- Jaymin Shah

"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

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up."

- Gabby Douglas

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

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

- Louise Hay

"Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did."

- Mark Twain

"I can and I will. Watch me."

- Carrie Green

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

- Florence Nightingale

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves."

- Chanakya

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."

- Brian Tracy

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

- Denis Waitley

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."

- M. Scott Peck

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

- C.S. Lewis

"You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."

- Jim Rohn

"I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."

- Steve Maraboli

"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

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Dorothy West

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

- Richard Branson

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

- Henry Ford

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

"Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

"You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything."

- Ali Krieger

"You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

- Trina Paulus

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

- William Feather

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"You always have two choices — your commitment versus your fear."

- Sammy Davis Jr.

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

- Henry Ford

"Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more."

- Maya Angelou

"Motivation comes from working on things we care about."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

- Jim Rohn

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is. Prioritize yourself by making a habit of it."

- Andrena Sawyer

"Woo girl, need to kick off your shoes / Got to take a deep breath, time to focus on you"

- Lizzo

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

- E.E. Cummings

"You can get what you want or you can just get old."

- Billy Joel

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

- Warren Buffett

"Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first."

- Anna Quindlen

"There does come a moment when you start saying, ‘I want more,’ and people look at you a little cross-eyed, because it’s loving what you have and also knowing you want to try for more. Sometimes that makes people uncomfortable."

- Ariana DeBose

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

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

- Toni Morrison

"I’m a survivor / I’m not gonna give up / I’m not gonna stop / I’m gonna work harder"

- Destiny’s Child

"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Arthur Christopher Benson

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

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

- Truman Capote

"So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible."

- Norton Juster

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Charles Dickens

"When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do."

- Nicki Minaj

"One thing’s for sure, if you don’t play, you don’t win."

- Kylie Francis

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius

"I want to be remembered as the one who tried."

- Dorothy Height

"Don’t trust any one story of how to become successful."

- Mindy Kaling

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

"She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements."

- Alice Munro

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"I hate that word: ‘lucky.’ It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

- Seneca

"When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

- John F. Kennedy

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

- Ayn Rand

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Joseph Barbara

"This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."

- Alan Wilson Watts

"Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Anne Frank

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

- Thomas Edison

"We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things."

- Herb Kelleher

"Don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started."

- Marilu Henner

"If you don’t have time for the small things, you won’t have time for the big things."

- Richard Branson

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

- Anita Roddick

"If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives."

- Lemony Snicket

"Think of many things, do one."

- Portuguese proverb

"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."

- Eva Young

"If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough."

- David A. Bednar

"Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm, and genuine people."

- Tena Desae

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

- Warren Buffett

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."

- David Allen

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you."

- Derek Jeter

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

"Let nothing happen, just for a bit, let the minutes toll in the stunning air, let us lie on our beds like astronauts, hurtling through space and time."

- Olivia Laing

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day."

- A.A. Milne

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

- Dale Carnegie

"Everything is hard before it is easy."

- Goethe

"Why do we grieve failures longer than we celebrate wins?"

- Komal Kapoor

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

- Naomi Judd

"It isn’t possible to create anything of scale beyond one person without first recognizing the need and then asking for help."

- Michelle Duval

"Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you."

- Mark Cuban

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning."

- Colin Powell

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

- A.C. Benson

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem."

- Pirates of the Caribbean

""Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.""

- Marcus Aurelius

"You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind."

- Irish proverb

"You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better."

- David Allen

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

- Walt Disney

"A positive mindset attracts positive outcomes."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path."

"If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, concentrate the mind on the present."

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

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

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

"I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks."

"The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands."

"And never say of anything, 'Indeed, I will do that tomorrow,' Except [when adding], 'If Allah wills.'"

"Perform your obligatory duties, because action is indeed better than inaction."

"The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty."

"You never know which people, places, and experiences are going to shift your perspective until after you've left them behind and had some time to look back."

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

"You’re so much stronger than your excuses."

"Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits."

""Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.""

"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction."

"One day or day one. You decide."

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

"People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable."

"Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later."

"Finish the week with a positive attitude, and you'll start the weekend with a refreshing vibe."

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

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

"Practice makes progress not perfect."

"You can’t have a million-dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic."

"When the pain of an obstacle is too great, challenge yourself to be stronger."

"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you are done."

"Don’t tell people about your dreams. Show them your dreams."

"Don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect."

"It might not be easy but it’ll be worth it."

"Forget your excuses. You either want it bad or don’t want it at all."

"Make your fear of losing your greatest motivator."

"Don't expect 100% productivity from an employee when you only give them 1% training."

"Whenever you feel like a failure, just remember that even Coca Cola only sold 25 bottles their first year."

"You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined."

"I wouldn’t be where I am now if I didn’t fail… a lot."

- Unknown

"When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future."

"Friday is the start of the weekend, but it's also a day to reflect on the accomplishments of the week. What did you achieve? What are you proud of? Celebrate your successes."

"A negative mind will never give you a positive life."

"Friday is the golden child of the weekdays. The superhero of the workweek. The welcome wagon to the weekend."