Inspiring Quotes to Ignite Your Spirit

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

- Madonna

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

- Aretha Franklin

"We 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

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Danny DeVito

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Sir Francis Bacon

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

- Nicki Minaj

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

- Eckhart Tolle

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Achea Redd

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Selena Gomez

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

- Toni Morrison

"Let love rule."

- Lenny Kravitz

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"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

"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

"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

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Amal Clooney

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

- Elizabeth Smart

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

- Taylor Swift

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- David Goggins

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

- Carrie Ann Moss

"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

"Spread love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Gabrielle Bernstein

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

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

- Kesha

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Hayley Williams

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

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

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

- Robin Williams

"I'm not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

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

- Marie Forleo

"Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment."

- Marianne Cantwell

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Morgan Freeman

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Pink

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

- Roald Dahl

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied."

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"Nobody built like you, you design yourself."

- Jay-Z

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Joelle Speranza

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

- Beyoncé

"There's nothing more powerful than not giving a f—k."

- Amy Schumer

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Dr. Henry Link

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you'll reach your goal. And if that takes a few years, then that's great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that's part of the process."

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Amy Dickinson

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

- Colleen Hoover

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

- Mindy Kaling

"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

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

- George Harrison

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"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

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

- Cheryl Strayed

"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

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Joan Jett

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

- Awkwafina

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

"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

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- David Hurley

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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 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 Buffet

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- A. A. Milne

"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

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"You can’t win is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Epicurus

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Steve 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

"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

"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

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Ariana Huffington

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

"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

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Aristotle

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Viola Davis

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

- George Eliot

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

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Maggie Kuhn

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

- Jane Fonda

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Walter Anderson

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"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 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

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Paulo Coelho

"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

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Shirley Chisholm

"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"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

"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

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- E.E. Cummings

"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

"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

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

- Epictetus

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Muhammad Ali

"in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

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

- B. Olatunji

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

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

- Mother Teresa

"If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Regina Brett

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal."

- Naomi Osaka

"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

"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

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

- Anne Frank

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Napoleon Hill

"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

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Mandy Hale

"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

"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

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Amelia Earhart

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Simone Biles

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Winston Churchill

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Hafez

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

- Friedrich Schiller

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

- Henry Ford

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

- William James

"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

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

- Mae Jemison

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Marie Curie

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

- Ronald Reagan

"I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine."

- André Leon Talley

"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

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

- Lewis Caroll

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- E.E. Cummings

"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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Willie Nelson

"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

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Charles Dickens

"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

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

- Cicely Tyson

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Nicole Kidman

"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

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

- Anne Heche

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

- Loesje

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

- Michael Altshuler

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Naomi Judd

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Mikhail Gorbachev

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

- Loretta Lynn

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

- Deep Roy

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

- Herman Melville

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

- James Caan

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

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

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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

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

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

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."