100+ Inspiring Motivational Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Fire

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Maya Angelou

"I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. Not at the same time."

- Brene Brown

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done."

- David Goggins

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- George Addair

"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

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

- Earl Nightingale

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Confucius

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"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

"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

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

- Simone Biles

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

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

- E.E. Cummings

"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

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

- Bonnie Prudden

"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

"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

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

- Epicurus

"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

"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

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

- Gabrielle Union

"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

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

- Walt Whitman

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"I tell myself, 'You've been through so much, you've endured so much, time will allow me to heal, and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete, and mother I am today.'"

- Serena Williams

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures."

- Joelle Speranza

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

- Dolly Parton

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action."

- Dr. Henry Link

"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. And if that takes a few years, then that's great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that's part of the process."

- Naomi Osaka

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Zig Ziglar

"We need to take risks. We need to go broke. We need to prove them wrong, simply by not giving up."

- Awkwafina

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

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"We all have problems. But it's not what happens to us, [it's] the choices we make after."

- Elizabeth Smart

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."

- Deepak Chopra

"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

"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

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

"Through discipline comes freedom."

- Aristotle

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Warren Buffet

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"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

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"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

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

- Michelle Obama

"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

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There’s only one you."

- Queen Latifah

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

- Les Brown

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

- Jimmy Dean

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Rob Siltanen

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Y. Davis

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Albert Einstein

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"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

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- e.e. cummings

"If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want."

- Kevin Ngo

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Og Mandino

"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

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell."

- Amal Clooney

"I just want you to know that if you are out there and you are being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened ... it's normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please."

- Taylor Swift

"You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life."

- Carrie Ann Moss

"Spread love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

"If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

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

- Robin Williams

"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

"Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness."

- Marie Forleo

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

- Anne Frank

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied."

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Madam C.J Walker

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Tricia Cunningham

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"There's power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there's grace in being willing to know and hear others."

- Michelle Obama

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible."

- Rodolfo Costa

"Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret."

- Richelle Goodrich

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times when one only remembers to turn on the light."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- J.M. Barrie

"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

"You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice."

- Kerry Washington

"Do not fear failure. Dare to fail in order to find ways to succeed."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less."

- Steve Goodier

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen—that stillness becomes a radiance."

- Morgan Freeman

"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

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Encouraging someone to be entirely themself is the loudest way to love them."

- Kalen Dion

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

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

- Will Rogers

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Dolly Parton

"Nobody built like you, you design yourself."

- Jay-Z

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Let's be great."

- Terry Drake

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment."

- Marianne Cantwell

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"In the long run, you make your own luck—good, bad, or indifferent."

- Loretta Lynn

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on."

- Lady Gaga

"Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees."

- Sumi

"Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome."

- Fannie Flagg

"It's important to think of what it means to powerfully and successfully rise to challenges, and all that it requires: determination, clarity, and steering clear of victim mentality."

- Emma R. Wilson

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"I care about decency and humanity and kindness. Kindness today is an act of rebellion."

- Pink

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

- John Steinbeck

"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

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

- Coco Chanel

"We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow."

- Chris Burkmenn

"Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

"It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient."

- Daniel Kahneman

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Kesha

"You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom."

- Roz Inga

"I'm going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn't promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It's the only thing I can help. If I didn't have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?"

- Hayley Williams

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"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

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

- Nicole Kidman

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

- Sir Francis Bacon

"Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you."

- Beyoncé

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

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

- Bruce Springsteen

"I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential."

- Nicki Minaj

"The moral of my story is the sun always comes out after the storm. Being optimistic and surrounding yourself with positive loving people is for me, living life on the sunny side of the street."

- Janice Dean

"We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We've gotta listen more and talk less. We've gotta know that this is everybody's responsibility."

- Meghan Rapinoe

"Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more."

- Aretha Franklin

"We are not our best intentions. We are what we do."

- Amy Dickinson

"I've noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I'm grateful in the end."

- Colleen Hoover

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Steve Furtick

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

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

- Robert Frost

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Vince Lombardi

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

- Madonna

"We have to let go of who we think we should be and embrace what is."

- Achea Redd

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

- Duke Ellington

"Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness."

- Selena Gomez

"We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can’t put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?"

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Stephen Covey

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there."

- George Harrison

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"I'm realizing how much I've diminished my own power. I'm not doing that no more."

- Alicia Keys

"I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."

- Amy Poehler

"Don't be afraid. Because you're going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don't be afraid."

- Joan Jett

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Toni Morrison

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."

- Dr. Phil

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender."

- Mariah Carey

"When we let fear be our master, we cannot be happy and free as a butterfly. But when we choose to trust the journey and embrace love and joy, we are free to fly."

- Annicken R. Day

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift."

- L. A. Villafane

"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."

- Danny DeVito

"Work hard, know your s—t, show your s—t, and then feel entitled."

- Mindy Kaling

"Let love rule."

- Lenny Kravitz

"How wild it was, to let it be."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning."

- S. C. Lourie

"You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Robert Frost

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass."

- Rebecca Wells

"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

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

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

- Etty Hillesum

"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

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon."

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

"Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

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