"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."
- Oprah Winfrey
Learning from Mistakes
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."
- Madam C.J. Walker
Ambition
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Contribution
"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."
- Muhammad Ali
Belief in Self
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
- Steve Jobs
Ambition
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible !'"
- Audrey Hepburn
Belief
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett
Aspirations
"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."
- Malala Yousafzai
Future
"All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
Ambition
"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."
- Viola Davis
Aspirations
"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal."
- Naomi Osaka
Aspirations
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Courage
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."
- Anne Frank
Hope
"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- A.A. Milne
Belief in Self
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Courage
"Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions."
- The Dalai Lama
Happiness
"You do not find the happy life. You make it."
- Camilla Eyring Kimball
Happiness
"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
- Jim Rohn
Happiness
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
- Mother Theresa
Happiness
"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."
- Estée Lauder
Success
"Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."
- Maya Angelou
Compassion
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
- Booker T. Washington
Compassion
"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."
- Michelle Obama
Integrity
"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."
- Oprah Winfrey
Independence
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
New Beginnings
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."
- Amanda Gorman
Courage
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."
- Maya Angelou
Success
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
- Viktor Frankl
Overcoming Obstacles
"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
- Og Mandino
Hard Work
"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."
- Marilyn Monroe
Happiness
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."
- Charles Kettering
Belief
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’"
- Audrey Hepburn
Aspirations
"Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right."
- Henry Ford
Belief
"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."
- Bob Marley
Happiness
"I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."
- Ava DuVernay
Taking Risks
"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."
- Leonard I. Sweet
Vision
"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."
- Alice Walker
Empowerment
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill
Generosity
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
- Lao Tzu
Transformation
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."
- Les Brown
Empowerment
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
- Maya Angelou
Resilience
"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."
- Drew Barrymore
Growth
"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."
- Jon Bon Jovi
Success
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
- Alexander Graham Bell
Success
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."
- Paulo Coelho
Success
"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."
- Drew Houston
Success
"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."
- W.P. Kinsella
Taking Risks
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
- Nikki Giovanni
Learning from Mistakes
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
- Jim Rohn
Taking Risks
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Aspirations
"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"
- Seth Godin
Ambition
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer
Inspiration
"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
- Margaret Fuller
Learning
"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Reflection
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."
- Wayne Gretzky
Taking Risks
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill
Motivation
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failures are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
- Dale Carnegie
Success
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
- Malcolm X
Success
"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Reflection
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe
Motivation
"Be persistent and never give up hope."
- George Lucas
Perseverance
"Dream big and dare to fail."
- Norman Vaughan
Aspirations
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
- Bill Bradley
Success
"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell
New Beginnings
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."
- John Barrymore
Happiness
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief in Self
"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"We become what we think about most of the time."
- Earl Nightingale
Belief in Self
"You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."
- Mandy Hale
Mindfulness
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
- Henry Ford
Teamwork
"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Success
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
- Aristotle
Hope
"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
- John D. Rockefeller
Change
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
- Helen Keller
Education
"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."
- Helen Keller
Ambition
"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."
- Alexander the Great
Motivation
"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
Success
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
- Bob Dylan
Success
"The best revenge is massive success."
- Frank Sinatra
Success
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
- Ronald Reagan
Compassion
"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult."
- Queen Elizabeth II
Compassion
"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you."
- Lupita Nyong'o
Compassion
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."
- Ella Fitzgerald
Change
"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
- Robert Schuller
Resilience
"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."
- Meghan Markle
Independence
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
- Zig Ziglar
Goals
"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."
- Mandy Hale
Mindfulness
"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."
- Lindsey Vonn
Change
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell
Change
"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."
- Demi Lovato
Hope
"Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
- Henry Ford
Overcoming Obstacles
"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."
- E.E. Cummings
Happiness
"Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you."
- Gabrielle Union
Hard Work
"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory."
- Dr. Seuss
Reflection
"and everything else will come."
- Ellen DeGeneres
Inspiration
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
- Vernon Sanders Law
Learning
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
- William James
Contribution
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
Reflection
"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"
- Zendaya
Positivity
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
- Duke Ellington
Motivation
"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."
- Annette Funicello
Contentment
"The best way out is through."
- Robert Frost
Overcoming Obstacles
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
- Jimmy Dean
Change
"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."
- Queen Elizabeth II
Transformation
"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."
- Jennifer Aniston
Reflection
"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."
- Mae Jemison
Ambition
"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."
- Marie Curie
Ambition
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
- Helen Keller
Courage
"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."
- Madeleine Albright
Empowerment
"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
- Robert Brault
Contentment
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Aspirations
"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."
- Hafez
Gratitude
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
- Billie Jean King
Achievement
"We will fail when we fail to try."
- Rosa Parks
Courage
"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
Adversity
"It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."
- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
Courage
"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before."
- Shinzo Abe
Resilience
"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
Inspiration
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
- William James
Mindfulness
"Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference."
- Winston Churchill
Positivity
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
- Willie Nelson
Positivity
"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."
- Mary Lou Retton
Positivity
"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."
- Olivia Newton John
Facing Fears
"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."
- Elaine Welteroth
Facing Fears
"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."
- Jonah Hill
Ambition
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
- John Barrymore
Happiness
"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Creativity
"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"
- Max Levchin
Self-awareness
"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."
- Halle Bailey
Joy
"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."
- Lady Gaga
Success
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
- Margaret Mead
Self-awareness
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
- J.M. Barrie
Personal Growth
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."
- Charles Dickens
Change
"Life has got those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."
- Nicole Kidman
Change
"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."
- Danny Boyle
Hope
"It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
- Lewis Caroll
Change
"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."
- Grace Kelly
Contentment
"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."
- Cicely Tyson
Resilience
"A dead-end street is a good place to turn around."
- Naomi Judd
Reflection
"Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."
- Nicole Kidman
Courage
"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."
- Deep Roy
Positivity
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
- Truman Capote
Failure
"The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."
- Charles Dickens
Courage
"Limit your ' always' and your ' nevers.'"
- Amy Poehler
Balance
"We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person."
- Anne Heche
Love
"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."
- Mark Cuban
Positivity
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
- Michael Altshuler
Time Management
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
Self-awareness
"You get what you give."
- Jennifer Lopez
Generosity
"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
Positivity
"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Personal Growth
"In the long run, you make your own luck — good, bad, or indifferent."
- Loretta Lynn
Success
"My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'"
- James Caan
Mindfulness
"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
Aspirations