Daily Dose of Inspiration: A Curated Collection of the Most Uplifting Quotes

"Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- 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

"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

"There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return."

- Nelson Mandela

"We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that."

- David Goggins

"You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up."

- Aaron Sorkin

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true — hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it."

- Ray Bradbury

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

- Albert Einstein

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Winston Churchill

"I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself."

- Beyoncé

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

- Helen Keller

"Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you…. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way."

- Tim Ferriss

"Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off."

- Kevin Hart

"Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference."

- Denzel Washington

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like."

- Steph Curry

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Walt Disney

"You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Nelson Mandela

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."

- Hank Aaron

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- George Addair

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."

- Araminta Ross (later known as Harriet Tubman)

"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."

- Wayne Dyer

"I’ve grown most not from victories but from setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us."

- Serena Williams

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

- Robin Williams

"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life — and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I’m not saying I’m particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it."

- Kenny G

"If you can’t fail, you can never get better."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for."

- Jimmy Stewart

"Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask."

- Kate Winslet

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Anything in life worth having is worth working for."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results."

- Willie Nelson

"The best protection any woman can have … is courage."

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work."

- Margot Robbie

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

- Viktor E. Frankl

"If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do."

- Jude Law

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."

- Michelangelo

"You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough"

- Lionel Messi

"If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach."

- Steve Wozniak

"The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple."

- Jack Dorsey

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

- G.K. Chesterton

"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."

- Pope Benedict XVI

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Milton Berle

"Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?"

- Caroline Myss

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

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

- Confucius

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner."

- James Dyson

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

- Sun Tzu

"Don’t let what you don’t know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you’re guaranteed to do them differently."

- Sara Blakely

"Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life."

- Cesar Chavez

"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

- Robin Sharma

"I’ll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done."

- Audie Murphy

"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

- Alexander the Great

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one."

- Ronald McNair

"Fear of looking stupid is the No. 1 killer of dreams. The worst part? The people who make you feel stupid are usually the ones least qualified to judge someone else’s life."

- Anthony Moore

"If you focus on results you’ll never change. If you focus on change, you’ll get results."

- Jack Dixon

"Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage"

- Matt Damon

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

- Satya Nadella

"The chief cause of failure is substituting what you want most for what you want now."

- Zig Ziglar

"Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done."

- Charlie Kaufman

"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity."

- Nicole Kidman

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say: If this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away."

- Douglas Englebart

"The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves."

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Judy Garland

"Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out."

- Randall Munroe

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Gautama Buddha

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change."

- Reese Witherspoon

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

- Albert Einstein

"An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you."

- Indra Nooyi

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."

- Ovid

"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."

- David Bowie

"A lot of times, people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do."

- Chuck Norris

"I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."

- Christian Bale

"Success … is built on the foundation of courage, hard work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears."

- Susana Martinez

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Confucius

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"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 isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day."

- Willie Mays

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from."

- Seth Godin

"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas Edison

"God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."

- Mother Teresa

"The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."

- Eric Ries

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Helen Keller

"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive, and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream."

- Tommy Hilfiger

"Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life."

- Tyler Perry

"Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice."

- Terry Crews

"The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible"

- Mike Horn

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."

- William Morris

"I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Will Arnett

"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

"Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose."

- Pele

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

- Louis Pasteur

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

- Cindy Gallop

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

"I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish."

- Daniel Day-Lewis

"So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."

- Caterina Fake

"No failure means no risk, which means nothing new"

- Richard Branson

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it."

- Bill Murray

"Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it."

- Ted Williams

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

- Dalai Lama

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."

- Kyle Chandler

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul."

- Sir Terry Waite

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do."

- John Holt

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

- Confucius

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

- James Clear

"I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps … I’m the first Simone Biles."

- Simone Biles

"The first step is clearly defining what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it."

- Halle Berry

"The things that scare you only make you better and stronger."

- Octavia Spencer

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

"If you do every job like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, that’s when you get noticed."

- Mary Barra

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Robert Schuller

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"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

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"The lessons aren’t about wealth or fame or working harder and harder. The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period."

- Dr. Robert Waldinger

"Someone once said, ‘Adversity introduces a man to himself.’ For some reason, that’s scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger."

- Max Cleland

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."

- Alexander Hamilton

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Life always offers you a second chance. It is called tomorrow."

- Dylan Thomas

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."

- William Wallace

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

- Michael Jordan

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

- FDR

"It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Dalai Lama

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Og Mandino

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

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

- Gale Sayers

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"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

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk."

- James Cash Penney

"Pressure is a privilege. It only comes to those who earn it."

- Billie Jean King

"Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin."

- Grace Hansen

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

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

- Arthur Ashe

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Winston Churchill

"You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect."

- Rosalind Brewer

"Before you speak, run this through your head: Is what I’m about to say true? Is it helpful? Is it inspiring? Is it necessary? Is it kind? If you cannot answer yes to these questions, then don’t say it, don’t tweet it, don’t write it."

- Beret Guidera

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

- St. Jerome

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Stephen Covey

"Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth."

- Mike Tyson

"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

"I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know."

- Harlan Sanders

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

- Maya Angelou

"Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical."

- Howard Schultz

"Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day."

- Ray Lewis

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

- Aristotle

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Ralph Marston

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"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."

- Arianna 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

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."

- Pope John XXIII

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

- Richard L. Evans

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Walter Elliot

"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

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Mark Twain

"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

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"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

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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

- Amelia Earhart

"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

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

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

- Dr. Seuss

"To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart."

- Rebecca Solnit

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Mallika Tripathi

"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."

- Jack Canfield

"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

"Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change."

- Richard Branson

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

- Stephen McCranie

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

- Brian Tracy

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

- Conan O'Brien

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

- Aldous Huxley

"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."

- Philip Sidney

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Serena Williams

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

- Jim Rohn

"The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself."

- Meryl Streep

"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"This is it. This is life, the one you get."

- Jeff Barry

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

- George Patton

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

- Leo Buscaglia

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

- Epictetus

"Either move or be moved."

- Ezra Pound

"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."

- Stephen Hawking

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

- William Blake

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Florence Nightingale

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Being positive is a sign of intelligence."

- Maxime Legacé

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

- Rick Riordan

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."

- James Oppenheim

"Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities."

- Orison Swett Marden

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

- Auguste Rodin

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"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

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- Joe Girard

"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."

- Patrick Lencioni

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- George Eliot

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

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

- Lucille Ball

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

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

- Warren Buffett

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Epicurus

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

- Steven Furtick

"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

"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

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

- Bill Gates

"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

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"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

"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

"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 Gordon

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Don Cheadle

"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

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"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

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

- Carol Burnett

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Deepak Chopra

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Og Mandino

"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

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

- Aristotle

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"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

"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

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Audre Lorde

"It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t."

- Ricky Gervais

"The biggest temptation is to settle for too little."

- Thomas Merton

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

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Richard Bach

"You are never too good for anything. Always be willing to do everything."

- Thomas Parkinson

"Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

- George Clooney

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you’re praying."

- Mason Cooley

"I’m a big believer in the power of inexperience. It was the greatest asset I had when I started TFA. If I had known at the outset how hard it was going to be, I might never have started."

- Wendy Kopp

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

- Peter Dinklage

"Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet"

- Dr. Dre

"All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long."

- Steven Spielberg

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times."

- Mark Twain

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."

- Michael Porter

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

- Peter Drucker

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

"My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me."

- Michael K. Williams

"[T]he world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape."

- Bono

"Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people."

- Joe Frazier

"The last 10 percent it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90 percent."

- Rob Kalin

"Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace."

- Robert Goddard

"Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation"

- Isaac Newton

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

- Louis L'Amour

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

- Bob Marley

"My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later."

- Douglas Preston

"When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It’s simple: if you aren’t willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is."

- T. Harv Eker

"I feel like if it’s not scaring you, you’re doing it wrong."

- Anna Kendrick

"Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don’t want to in order to figure out what it is you’re supposed to do."

- Larry David

"Forget about style; worry about results."

- Bobby Orr

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

- St. Augustine

"Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody’s job and don’t just settle."

- Michael B. Jordan

"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world."

- Archimedes

"This is not just a job. This is a passion. Connecting people, connecting the world, making a difference. How many jobs can say I made the world better today? We do that every single day."

- Ed Bastian

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes."

- Sally Field

"You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."

- Galileo Galilei

"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you."

- Josephine Baker

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

- Aristotle

"It seems to me that to be peaceful and content, you don’t have to know precisely what you want. It may even be better if you don’t. But I think you do need to be very clear what you DON’T want, and steadfast in the not-doing of those things."

- Sandra Boynton

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."

- Marcel Proust

"I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these 10 or 20 lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words."

- Joseph Pulitzer

"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."

- Sylvester Stallone

"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."

- Bell Hooks

"If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."

- Lech Walesa

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

- Thomas Huxley

"It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant."

- Katarina Witt

"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."

- Colin Firth

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

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

- Mario Andretti

"My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

- African Proverb

"There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate, when a particular course of action just feels right. And, interestingly, I’ve discovered it’s in facing life’s most important decisions that intuition seems the most indispensable."

- Tim Cook

"There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity."

- Douglas MacArthur

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

"Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like."

- Brian Chesky

"Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart."

- Quentin Tarantino

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."

- Nathaniel Branden

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass

"You can’t be afraid of what people are going to say, because you’re never going to make everyone happy."

- Selena Gomez

"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."

- Diana Ross

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."

- Ida B. Wells

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

"When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."

- Josh James

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."

- Brad Meltzer

"Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."

- Doug Larson

"I’m intimidated by the fear of being average."

- Taylor Swift

"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws?"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy."

- Mike Rowe

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking."

- General George S. Patton

"Reality is created by the mind; we can change our reality by changing our mind."

- Plato

"Everyone you meet in life is fighting a battle you know nothing about."

- Unknown original

"If you look around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room."

- Lorne Michaels

"I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship."

- Amy March

"Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want."

- Jason Sudeikis

"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

- John F. Kennedy

"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl

"What gets celebrated gets replicated."

- Bradley Cooper

"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

"Anyone with two tunics should share with him who has none."

- John the Baptist

"An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better."

- Clayton Christensen

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."

- Leo Buscaglia

"The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time."

- Julia Child

"Sometimes you can only find heaven by slowly backing away from hell."

- Carrie Fisher

"Great artists steal’ is … about finding inspiration in the work of others, then using it as a starting point for original creative output."

- Adam J. Kurtz

"The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success."

- Kevin Kline

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent."

- Bob Dylan

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

- Cormac McCarthy

"We each come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and lucky breaks we can never fully understand."

- MacKenzie Scott

"Business is built on relationships, relationships are built on trust, and the foundation of trust is honesty."

- Various

"If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling."

- Vince Gilligan

"There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: There are no rules."

- Shonda Rhimes

"I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."

- Ralph Abernathy

"To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts."

- Roger Ebert

"Waking up in truth is so much better than living in a lie."

- Idris Elba

"It’s beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it’s well deserved."

- Jennifer Lawrence

"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

- Danny Boyle

"We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to, that’s part of your obligation."

- Bill Murray

"It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you’d better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call."

- Jyoti Arora

"If all I do in my life is soothe someone’s spirit with a song , then let me do that and I’m happy."

- Gladys Knight

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

- Kesha

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back."

- Herb Kelleher

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

- Will Rogers

"People think I’m an overnight success. No. It’s just that you all found me overnight."

- Leslie Jones

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

- Robert Frost

"Boredom is a lack of crazy. It’s a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you’re bored, blame yourself."

- Katelyn S. Irons

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Edwin Elliot

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

- Vera Nazarian

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Constance Wu

"If you’re ever thinking, Oh, but I’m a waste of space and I’m a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don’t you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?"

- Maria Bamford

"If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it."

- Alan Paton

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."

- Joseph Joubert

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- William Bruce Cameron

"It’s easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do."

- Mark Ruffalo

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."

- Baltasar Gracian

"Never complain and never explain."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand."

- Ada Lovelace

"The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name."

- Sylvia Browne

"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"

- Kate Summers

"You do this because you like it, you think what you’re making is beautiful. And if you think it’s beautiful, maybe they think it’s beautiful."

- Lou Reed

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."

- Mark Cuban

"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."

- Jean-Francois Cope

"There is no element of genius without some form of madness."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

- C.S. Lewis

"To scale, do things that don’t scale."

- Reid Hoffman

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from."

- Jodie Foster

"Your messaging should convey, ‘Here’s why you would be so lucky if you got me,’ instead of ‘I really wanted it,’ which we all tend to do."

- Barbara Corcoran

"Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky."

- Valentina Tereshkova

"All medicine is like that. It came from someone who dared."

- Dr. William DeVries

"It was the first evidence to me that we’d changed the world."

- John Shepherd-Barron

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works."

- Pope Francis

"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me"

- Diego Maradona

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

- Bob Marley

"Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart."

- Michael Ende

"The big money is not in the buying and selling … but in the waiting."

- Charlie Munger

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

- Mandy Hale

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Duke Ellington

"I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work."

- William Shatner

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end."

- Gilda Radner

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

"You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them."

- Keira Knightley

"To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at."

- Claude Monet

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

- John Barrymore

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I can’t tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun."

- Phil Knight

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

"One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks."

- George “Babe” Ruth

"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

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

- Annette Funicello

"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."

- Louis Mann

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

- Zendaya

"In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Margaret Atwood

"We always honor our people when they die; we’ve got to honor them while we’re still alive."

- Biz Markie

"If God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it!"

- Eleanor Hodgman Porter

"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."

- Dave Carolan

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

- Stephanie Perkins

"I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty."

- Susan B. Anthony

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends."

- Lyndon Johnson

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is an 80 percent friend, not a 20 percent enemy."

- President Reagan

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

- Margaret Mead

"My soul is that of a drummer…. I didn’t do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life."

- Ringo Starr

"We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom."

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Dita von Teese

"Write this down, young man. Life has been extremely, I say extremely, kind."

- Margaret Gorman

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

- Rudyard Kipling

"If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late."

- James Goldsmith

"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."

- James Taylor

"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."

- Shigeru Miyamoto

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

- George Carlin

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

- Isaac Asimov

"I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals."

- Brad Pitt

"Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text."

- Richard Rohr

"Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you."

- Mark Cuban

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

- H.G. Wells

"You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs."

- Ruben Dario

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."

- Stephen Sondheim

"Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken."

- Myrtle Aydelotte

"It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart."

- Al Pacino

"Memory is original events combined with every other time you’ve remembered that event. This is why therapy’s helpful."

- Becky Kennedy

"God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God’s love for us."

- Saint Peter

"It’s tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 a.m. when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas."

- Marvin Hagler

"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate."

- Kieran Culkin

"I have captured the light and arrested its flight. The sun itself shall draw my pictures."

- Louis Daguerre

"How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?"

- Satchel Paige

"Bridge the age gap. For younger people, find a way to spend time with older people. For the more silver-haired among us, I’m telling you: Find a few things the young kids are into — music, tech, sports — and check them out."

- Mike Erwin

"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Think about me every now and then, old friend."

- John Lennon

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

- Euripides

"The one thing you’re most reluctant to tell. That’s where the comedy is."

- Mike Birbiglia

"It was the ultimate dream. But the idea of a young black American like me owning a Cadillac? It seemed too far-fetched."

- Dick Gidron

"God works a miracle!"

- William Bradford

"It’s a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering. There’s no escaping that."

- Stephen Colbert

"Being an optimist after you’ve got the very thing you want doesn’t count."

- Kin Hubbard

"I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."

- Joan Didion

"Get into what your kids are into. How miserable would it be to always be anti-popular stuff like ‘ughhhh you seriously like Taylor Swift?'"

- Joel Willis

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!"

- T. D. Jakes

"I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it, and tomorrow as the moon sees it."

- Hannah Hoch

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

- Sofia Vergara

"I was literally just doing my job."

- Stanislav Petrov

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

"Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders."

- Senator Mitt Romney

"Next time you think you are important, try ordering somebody else’s dog around."

- Will Rogers

"It’s better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you."

- Edward Norton

"That’s the best part of the whole thing, is the people that we’ve met along the way. We’ve met some wonderful, wonderful people and we wouldn’t have otherwise."

- Pearl Dion

"It’s a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers."

- Michael Che

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

- George Meredith

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

"I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me."

- Eddie Vedder

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"People have confused playing devil’s advocate with being intelligent."

- Cecily Strong

"You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows."

- Matt Drudge

"When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative."

- Chris Rock

"You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible."

- Larry Page

"Economics is like the Dutch language. I’m told it makes sense, but I have my doubts."

- John Oliver

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

- Buddah

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

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

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

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got."

"Life is short, and the world is wide."

"Happiness is an inside job."

- Anonymous

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

"Some of the biggest achievements of your life will come from helping others achieve."

"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

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

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."