50 Inspiring Quotes Every Student Should Know to Stay Motivated

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

- Walt Disney

""I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near.""

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

""Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.""

- Christian D. Larson

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, and dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."

- Chantal Sutherland

""Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.""

- Mary Kay Ash

""The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.""

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Michael Jordan

"Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success."

- Virat Kohli

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

""You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.""

- E.O. Wilson

""Working hard is important, but there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.""

- Harry Potter

"Follow your dreams, believe in yourself, and don’t give up."

- Rachel Corrie

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

- Nelson Mandela

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

""Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.""

- Steve Jobs

"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe."

- Gail Devers

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

- Winston Churchill

""What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Malcolm X

""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

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

- BB King

""You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.""

- Zig Ziglar

""What lies behind us and what lies before we are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Nikos Kazantzakis

""The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Work is the key to success, and hard work can help you accomplish anything.""

- Vince Lombardi

""The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.""

- Walt Disney

""Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.""

- Pelé

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

- Dr. Seuss

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Malcolm X

"Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision, a plan, and the courage to chase it relentlessly."

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Bo Jackson

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- 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

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

- Albert Einstein

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

"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

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

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

- Confucius

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited."

- Plutarch

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Laird Hamilton

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John R. Wooden

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."

- Ralph Marston

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

- Albert Einstein

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them."

- Mark Twain

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

- Aristotle

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- A.A. Milne

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust, and care for each other."

- Vala Afshar

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves."

- Paul Solarz

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."

- Vince Lombardi

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

- Ann Landers

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

- Tim Notke

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

- Frank Ocean

"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

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

- Sam Levenson

"Dreams don't work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings who use the fullness of their talents to do their very best."

- Robin Sharma

"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them."

- Michelle Obama

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

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Gale Sayers

"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."

- Les Brown

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

- Walt Disney

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

- Pamela Vaull Starr

"Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don't let anything stand in your way."

- Brandy Johnson

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I think it's possible to ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

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

- Confucius

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

- Mia Hamm

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Learning is never done without errors and defeat."

- Vladimir Lenin

"A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

- Derek Bok

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

- Richard Steele

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

- Frederick Douglass

"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Billie Jean King

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

- Gail Sheehy

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself."

- Michael F. Staley

"The best investment you can make is in yourself."

- Warren Buffett

"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement."

- Helmut Schmidt

"Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Jennifer Lopez

"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself."

- Denis Waitley

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better."

- Émile Coué

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Louise Hay

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

- James A. Froude

"The only way that we can grow is if we change."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

- Brian Herbert

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Carrie Fisher

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Frederick Douglass

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

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

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Carl Bard

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

- C.S. Lewis

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

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

- Dolly Parton

"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow."

- Robert Kiyosaki

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

- Jordan Belfort

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Colin R. Davis

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- John F. Kennedy

"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

"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

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"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

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

- Ruth Gordo

"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

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"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

"I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Jessica Ennis

"Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"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

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated."

- R Collier

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

- Mark Twain

"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 best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"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

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

- Earl Nightingale

"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

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- A.A. Milne

"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."

- Albert Einstein

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- B.B. King

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"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

"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

""Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.""

- Bruce Lee

""Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.""

- Joshua J. Marine

""Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.""

- Robert M. Hutchins

""If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.""

- Nora Roberts

""The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.""

- Mark Twain

""The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.""

- B.B. King

""That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

""Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.""

- Lou Holtz

""Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for ‘just getting the job done.’ Excel!""

- Tom Hopkins

""Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.""

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To be an overachiever you have to be an over-believer."

- Dabo Swinney

"If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Nelson Mandela

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

- C.S. Lewis

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- General Colin Powell

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted."

- David Bly

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- David Brinkley

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and the voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

""Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.""

- Oprah

"Through hard work, perseverance, and faith in God, you can live your dreams."

- Ben Carson

""The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.""

- Vidal Sassoon

""There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.""

- Beverly Sills

""Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.""

- Gail Devers

""The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.""

- Brian Herbert

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

- Christopher Reeve

""The expert in anything was once a beginner.""

- Helen Hayes

""Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.""

- Leonardo da Vinci

""Study hard, no matter if it seems impossible, no matter if it takes time, no matter if you have to be up all night, just remember that the feeling of success is the best thing in the entire world.""

- khangal_wehearit

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

- Michelangelo

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

- Confucius

""It’s the pain and failure that teaches you the best lesson in life and motivates you to rebuild yourself and stand again with a robust faith.""

- Priti Chaubey

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

- George Lorimer

""I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.""

- Jim Carrey

""Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.""

- Albert Einstein

""My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.""

- Charles Dickens

""Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.""

- Benjamin Spock

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

- Elon Musk

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

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

- Zig Ziglar

"A setback is a setup for a comeback."

- T.D. Jakes

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsleigh

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Molière

"When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Jimmy Dean

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Duke Ellington

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."

- Swati Sharma

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything."

- John Wooden

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Helen Keller

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

- John C. Maxwell

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved."

- Mattie Stepanek

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

- Phil Jackson

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison."

- James Cash Penney

"Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people."

- Steve Jobs

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

- Harry S Truman

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

- Aristotle

"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."

- Virginia Burden

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Les Brown

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

- Arthur Ashe

""Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.""

- Albert Schweitzer

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."

- Woody Allen

""Learning is never done without errors and defeat.""

- Vladimir Lenin

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

- Babe Ruth

""Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.""

- Jim Rohn

""The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.""

- John D. Rockefeller

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

- John Maxwell

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

- Ed Cole

""Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.""

- Joe Paterno

"I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but by how high he bounces when he hits the bottom."

- George S. Patton

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

- John Quincy Adams

"To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching."

- Stephen Curry

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding on the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."

- Theodore N. Vail

""Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.""

- Chinese proverb

""When the student is ready, the master appears.""

- Buddhist Proverb

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would be amazed."

- Thomas Edison

"Your talents and abilities will improve over time, but for that, you have to start."

- Martin Luther King

"True education is about getting the best out of oneself."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Learning without thinking is useless. Think without learning, dangerous."

- Confucius

""Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.""

- John Wooden

""To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.""

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- George Addair

""It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.""

- Sir Edmund Hillary

""The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.""

- Swati Sharma

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

- A.A. Milne

""Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.""

- Dr. Benjamin Spock

""With confidence, you have won before you have started.""

- Marcus Garvey

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pelé

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

- Confucius

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

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

- Peter Drucker

"If you don't give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Robert Collier

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Og Mandino

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"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

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Nelson Mandela

"The only way to grow is to challenge yourself."

- Ashley Tisdale

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- William James

"You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday."

- Charles F. Kettering

"Change your thoughts and you will change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

""The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.""

- Walter Bagehot

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

- Milton Berle

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

- Dalai Lama

""Turning your passion into your job is easier than finding a job that matches your passion.""

- Seth Godin

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way."

- Wayne Dyer

"I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful."

- Natalie Portman

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

- Yoko Ono

""Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable.""

- Drew Houston

""There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.""

- Zig Ziglar

""You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.""

- Conrad Hall

"You can always be better."

- Tiger Woods

"Study the past if you want to intuit the future."

- Confucius

"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."

- Stephen Hawking

""The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.""

- Jimmy Johnson

""Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort,""

- Paul J. Meyer

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

- John F. Kennedy

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself."

- Chinese proverb

"Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder."

- Mason Cooley

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

- Ken Blanchard

"You have to be odd to be No.1."

- Dr. Seuss

"Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good."

- Minor Myers

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark."

- Michelangelo

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"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

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

"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

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

- Pema Chodron

"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

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

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"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

"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

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest of the past centuries."

- Rene Descartes

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Dalai Lama

"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

- Kakuzo Okakura

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win."

- Max McKeown

"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

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."

- Charles Darwin

"The key to success is often the ability to adapt."

- Anthony Brandt

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

- John F. Kennedy

"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

"Flexibility is the key to stability."

- John Wooden

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Edna Mode

"Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later."

- Bob Goff

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- Warren Buffet

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

- Anne Lamott

"Rule no.1 is: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule no. 2 is: It’s all small stuff."

- Robert Eliot

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

- Albert Einstein

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

- Plato

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Edward Young

"You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails."

- Thomas S. Monson

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

- Constance Wu

"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."

- James Cash Penney

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."

- Victor Hugo

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."

- Japanese Proverb

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher."

- Chinese Proverb

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible."

- Rollo May

""The road to success is always under construction.""

- Lily Tomlin

""You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.""

- Wayne Dyer

"The man who is a teacher of patience is a master of everything else."

- George Saville

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

- Albus Dumbledore

""Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.""

- Mark Twain

"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes."

- Guy Kawasaki

""I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.""

- Lou Holtz

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Jason Fried

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by then I was too famous."

- Robert Benchley

""Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.""

- Mason Cooley

""In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.""

- Omid Kordgstani

""The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.""

- James Yorke

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

"Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

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

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

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."

"A little progress each day adds up to big results."

"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it."

- Unknown

""You're never too young to dream big.""

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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

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

"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"Your time is now."