Inspire Yourself: A Powerful Collection of Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Strength

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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.

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

- Michael Jordan

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Thomas Edison

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do."

- Brian Tracy

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas Edison

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Confucius

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival."

- Audre Lorde

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

- George Eliot

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Muhammad Ali

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

- Geena Davis

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Truman Capote

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."

- Gabrielle Union

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."

- Oprah Winfrey

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Alice Walker

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Epicurus

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Ariana Huffington

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"Take the time today to love yourself. You deserve it."

- Avina Celeste

"Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable."

- Jackie Viramontez

"It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It's necessary."

- Mandy Hale

"Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

- M. Scott Peck

"Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause."

- Cecilia Tran

"Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax."

- Matt Haig

"Keep taking time for yourself until you are you again."

- Lalah Delia

"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."

- Edward Stanley

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Aristotle

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Viola Davis

"Self-doubt kills talent."

- Edie McClurg

"Your life only gets better when you get better."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Steve Jobs

"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Maya Angelou

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

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

- Warren Buffett

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

- Brian Tracy

"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."

- Marvin Gaye

"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

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Mae Jemison

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The time is always right to do what is right."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Sir Winston Churchill

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

"A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."

- Etty Hillesum

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"Self-care equals success. You’re going to be more successful if you take care of yourself and you’re healthy."

- Beth Behrs

"As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep."

- Akiroq Brost

"Self-care has become a new priority—the revelation that it’s perfectly permissible to listen to your body and do what it needs."

- Frances Ryan

"Our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you."

- Brian Tracy

"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

- Michael Phelps

"To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage."

- Confucius

"The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly."

- Brian Tracy

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

- Michelle Obama

"It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it."

- Sue Hadfield

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

- John Wooden

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

"Self-confidence is contagious."

- Stephen Richards

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- George Eliot

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

- W. Clement Stone

"Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel."

- Eleanor Brownn

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Bruce Lee

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Bill Walsh

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

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

- Robert Frost

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Deborah Day

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

- C. JoyBell

"Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves."

- Nathaniel Branden

"People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous, and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness, and inclusiveness."

- Sanaya Roman

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

- Sandra Bierig

"You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made."

- Abiola Abrams

"Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent."

- Billy Graham

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

- Tyra Banks

"Forgiveness isn’t just the absence of anger. I think it’s also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself."

- Tara Westover

"The challenge is not to be perfect—it is to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

"When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life."

- Jean Shinoda Bolen

"When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives."

- Kristin Neff

"Self-care is how you take your power back."

- Lalah Delia

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

- Deborah Day

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

- Christopher Germer

"When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do."

- John O'Donohue

"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."

- Buddha

"Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves."

- Princess Diana

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment."

- Stephen Covey

"Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break."

- Akiroq Brost

"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."

- Bell Hooks

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Bob Proctor

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

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

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

- Juan Casimiro

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

- James Dean

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

- Maria Robinson

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

- Abraham Maslov

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

- B. Olatunji

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- W. Clement Stone

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Regina Brett

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

- Carol Burnett

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Confucius

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

- Dolly Parton

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

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

- Michelangelo

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

- John Steinbeck

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

- William Shakespeare

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself."

- Brian Andreas

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

- Richard Evans

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

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

- Constance Wu

"Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself."

- Francis de Sales

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

- Loesje

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

- Friedrich Schiller

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Don Cheadle

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Dita Von Teese

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life."

- Anne LaMott

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

- Arthur Ashe

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Steve Furtick

"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."

- Thomas A. Edison

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

"Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears…"

- Nitya Prakash

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

- Toni Morrison

"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Mark Twain

"Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it."

- Ray Bradbury

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

"Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur."

- Mohnish Pabrai

"Every closed door isn’t locked and even if it is…YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!"

- Sanjo Jendayi

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

- Walt Whitman

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"Change the game, don’t let the game change you."

- Macklemore

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

- Nicole Kidman

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."

- Simone Biles

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everybody is different, and every body is different."

- Beverly Diehl

"It hurt because it mattered."

- John Green

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept."

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

"Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are."

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

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

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"Take time to do what makes your soul happy."