Inspiring Quotes to Ignite Your Passion and Purpose

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

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”"

- Marilyn Monroe

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”"

- Oscar Wilde

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Michael Jordan

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

- Dalai Lama

"There is no courage without vulnerability."

- Brené Brown

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."

- Mother Teresa

"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

- Neil Armstrong

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Bill Gates

"“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”"

- John Lennon

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Dr. Seuss

"“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”"

- Shel Silverstein

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

- Albert Einstein

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Jordan Belfort

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"The only approval you need is your own."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Maya Angelou

"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life."

- John Wooden

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"“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 one who'll decide where to go...”"

- Dr. Seuss

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

- Mother Teresa

"“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”"

- Bill Keane

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Naomi Osaka

"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

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

- Maggie Kuhn

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Winston Churchill

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Tony Robbins

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Dr. Henry Link

"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

"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

"Love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

"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

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"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

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."

- Anne Frank

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Anaïs Nin

"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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- George Eliot

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

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Aristotle

"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

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

- Viola 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

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Amy Dickinson

"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

"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

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

- Awkwafina

"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

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

- Selena Gomez

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

- Nicki Minaj

"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

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- William James

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Jimmy Dean

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"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

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before."

- Shinzo Abe

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- A.A. Milne

"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."

- Elaine Welteroth

"Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions."

- The Dalai Lama

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

- Jim Rohn

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

- Mother Theresa

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

- Simone Biles

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

- H.G. Wells

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Booker T. Washington

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you."

- Lupita Nyong'o

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Amanda Gorman

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

- E.E. Cummings

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations."

- Dr. Mae Jemison

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Sam Levenson

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

- Mark Twain

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- William Butler Yeats

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron

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

- Richard Branson

"Carpe diem."

- Horace

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

- C.S. Lewis

"History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own."

- Michelle Obama

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

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

- Mae West

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"May you live all the days of your life."

- Jonathan Swift

"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."

- D. H. Lawrence

"“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”"

- Neil Gaiman

"“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”"

- Albert Einstein

"“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”"

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine."

- Mario Fernandez

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- George Eliot

"Perpetual optimism [is] a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

"I’d like people to think of me as someone who cares about them."

- Princess Diana

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

- Plato

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

"“Everything you can imagine is real.”"

- Pablo Picasso

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"Oh, the places you’ll go!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you."

- Gabrielle Union

"I think, therefore I am."

- René Descartes

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

- Jennifer Lopez

"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Character is power."

- Booker T. Washington

"“Everything is as though everything is a miracle.”"

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Colleen Hoover

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

- John Barrymore

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

- George Harrison

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

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

- Alexander the Great

"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

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

- Joan Jett

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Achea Redd

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."

- Cicely Tyson

"Let love rule."

- Lenny Kravitz

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

- Will Rogers

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."

- Ingrid Bergman

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Willie Nelson

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

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

- Michael Altshuler

"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

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

- Mikhail Gorbachev

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Roxane Gay

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Duke Ellington

"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

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

- Madonna

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Sir Francis Bacon

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

- Herman Melville

"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

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

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Loretta Lynn

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Truman Capote

"We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person."

- Anne Heche

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"Less is more."

- Rone

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

- William Shakespeare

"It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Caroll

"What’s the world for if you can’t make it up the way you want it?"

- Toni Morrison

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

- Nicole Kidman

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

- Oscar Wilde

"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

- Voltaire

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

- Naomi Judd

"“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”"

- Elie Wiesel

"Perhaps one day it will be pleasing to recall even such hardships."

- Virgil

"Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'"

- Amy Poehler

"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."

- Grace Kelly

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

- Danny DeVito

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

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

- Cheryl Strayed

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

- Walter Anderson

"It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management."

- Alexandra of The Productivity Zone

"“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”"

- C.S. Lewis

"“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”"

- Stephen Chbosky

"All my life I always wanted to be someone. I see now I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans."

- Allen Saunders

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'"

- James Caan

"I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done."

- Steven Wright

"Hasta la vista, baby."

- Terminator 2: Judgement Day

"Excelsior!"

- New York state motto

"Lux et Veritas."

- Yale University motto

"Impossible is nothing."

- Adidas

"Think different."

- Apple

"Just do it."

- Nike

"The only easy day was yesterday."

- U.S. Navy SEALs

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."

- Charles Lamb

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."

- Steve Martin

"There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it."

- Mindy Kaling

"No man goes before his time — unless his boss leaves early."

- Groucho Marx

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

- Dorothy Parker

"Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it."

- George Carlin

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

"Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are."

- Will Ferrell

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

- Noel Coward

"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?"

- Robin Williams

"May the Force be with you."

- Star Wars

"My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine."

- Caroline Rhea

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

"When life gets tough, it's easy to give up hope. These famous quotes are a reminder that life is beautiful and we should live it to the fullest."

"Semper Fidelis."

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

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