100 Inspiring Short Quotes on Life to Motivate and Uplift You

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

- Maya Angelou

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Beyoncé

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life -- think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Reese Witherspoon

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

- Frederick Douglass

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Aaron Sorkin

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Serena Williams

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."

- Buddha

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

- Tim Ferriss

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

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- George Addair

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Aristotle

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Bob Marley

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ava DuVernay

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

- Tina Turner

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Audre Lorde

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

- Leonard I. Sweet

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Joseph Campbell

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Helen Keller

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Jack Dorsey

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Confucius

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- George Eliot

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Robert Frost

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Will Rogers

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Viola Davis

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

- Charles Kettering

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Albert Einstein

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- W.P. Kinsella

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Babe Ruth

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Mae West

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

"Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life."

- Philip Appleman

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."

- Anne Frank

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Christian Bale

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

- Susana Martinez

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

- Georgia O’Keeffe

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

- Jimmy Stewart

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Margot Robbie

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

- Viktor E. Frankl

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Quentin Tarantino

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

- Grandma Moses

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

- Diana Ross

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

- Kevin Hart

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Edith Wharton

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Kate Winslet

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

- Randall Munroe

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

- Judy Garland

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

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Anthony Moore

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Charles Swindoll

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Audie Murphy

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

- Robin Williams

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

- Araminta Ross (later known as Harriet Tubman)

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

- Plato

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

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- James Dyson

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

- Caroline Myss

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

- Julia Child

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Michelangelo

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

- Jude Law

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

- Amy March

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

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

- Jack Dixon

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- George Clooney

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

- Ted Williams

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Caterina Fake

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

- Daniel Day-Lewis

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

- Peter Dinklage

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

- Dr. Dre

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

- Louis Pasteur

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

- Pele

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

- Will Arnett

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

- William Morris

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Mike Horn

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

- Terry Crews

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

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

- Eric Ries

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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

- Willie Mays

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Meryl Streep

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Richard L. Evans

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

- Ray Lewis

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

- Howard Schultz

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

- Harlan Sanders

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

- Mike Tyson

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

- Beret Guidera

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

- Rosalind Brewer

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

- Grace Hansen

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Louis L’Amour

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

- Bob Marley

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

- James Cash Penney

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

- Mark Twain

"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

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Les Brown

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- John Wooden

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- William James

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

- Edmond Mbiaka

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"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

"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

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

- Warren Buffet

"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

"The only one who can tell you ‘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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- George Addair

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- David Bowie

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

- Benedict Cumberbatch

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Steve Wozniak

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

- Sara Blakely

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

- Robin S. Sharma

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

- W.B. Yeats

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

- Ronald McNair

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

- Matt Damon

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

- Satya Nadella

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Tom Hanks

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Gautama Buddha

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

- Indra Nooyi

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

- Ovid

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

- Chuck Norris

"I 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

"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

"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

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

"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

"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’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

"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

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

"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

"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

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Ed Bastian

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

- G.K. Chesterton

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

- Pope Benedict XVI

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

- Milton Berle

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work, and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Denzel Washington

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- William Wallace

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

- Dylan Thomas

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Alexander Hamilton

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Max Cleland

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

- Dr. Robert Waldinger

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- David Goggins

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

- Hank Aaron

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

- Tyler Perry

"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

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

- Conan O’Brien

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

- Steph Curry

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Anaïs Nin

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"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

"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

"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

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Gabrielle Union

"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

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

- Lucille Ball

"The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead."

- Jack

"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Shawshank Redemption

"There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth."

- Rick Warren

"You're not defined by your past; you're prepared by it. You're stronger, more experienced, and you have greater confidence."

- Joel Osteen

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

- Seneca

"Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority."

- Vince Lombardi

"As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give."

- David DeNotaris

"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

"I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning."

- John McLeod

"Find people who will make you better."

- Michelle Obama

"Don’t allow your past or present condition to control you. It’s just a process that you’re going through to get you to the next level."

- T.D. Jakes

"You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you."

- Kim Kiyosaki

"Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Today, you have 100% of your life left."

- Tom Landry

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

- George S. Halas

"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

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

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Deborah Day

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

- Rob Siltanen

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

- Angela Y. Davis

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Helen Keller

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

- John Dewey

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Sundar Pichai

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

- Vera Wang

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

- Rick Warren

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Les Brown

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

- e.e. cummings

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

- Kevin Ngo

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

- George Eliot

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Sandra Boynton

"As my knowledge of things grew I felt more and more the delight of the world I was in."

- Helen Keller

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

- Jeff Barry

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

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

- Epicurus

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Dr. Seuss

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore."

- Elvis Presley

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

"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

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- Anna Kendrick

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

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

- Sylvester Stalone

"Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Bill Gates

"Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself."

- Yoda (Star Wars Quotes)

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Steve Furtick

"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

"There’s more to life than basketball. The most important thing is your family and taking care of each other and loving each other no matter what."

- Stephen Curry

"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

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Paul Bryant

"Your image isn’t your character. Character is what you are as a person."

- Derek Jeter

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- bell hooks

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

- Larry David

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

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

- Sally Field

"Forget about style; worry about results."

- Bobby Orr

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Lech Walesa

"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

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

- Jyoti Arora

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Thomas Huxley

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Galileo Galilei

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

- Colin Firth

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

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

- Mario Andretti

"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

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

- Josephine Baker

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

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- St. Augustine

"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

"The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant."

- Doctor Who

"I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive."

- Joan Rivers

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Simone Biles

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

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

- Annette Funicello

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

- Lou Reed

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Josh James

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

- John Barrymore

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

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

- Zendaya

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

- Wendy Kopp

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

- Edwin Elliot

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

- Carrie Fisher

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

- Doug Larson

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Joan Didion

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Kesha

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

- Kenny G

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Joe Frazier

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

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Mason Cooley

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

- Robert Goddard

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

- Douglas Preston

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

- Ralph Abernathy

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Rob Kalin

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

- Selena Gomez

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

- Mike Rowe

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

- Isaac Newton

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- General George S. Patton

"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"

- Max Levchin

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

- Katelyn S. Irons

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Danny Boyle

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

- Michael Porter

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Peter Drucker

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

"Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking."

- Lee Ann Womack

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Stephen Sondheim

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

- William Hazlitt

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

- Ida B. Wells

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

- Keira Knightley

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

- John the Baptist

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

- Martin Luther King

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

- Nathaniel Branden

"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

- William Osler

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

- Nicole Kidman

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

- Robert Byrne

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

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

- T. Harv Eker

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

"There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Bono

"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

"So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow."

- Rainbow Rowell

"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

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

- Brian Chesky

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

- Lorne Michaels

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

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

- Brad Meltzer

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Kevin Kline

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

- Michael K. Williams

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

- Douglas MacArthur

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Tim Cook

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Salvador Dali

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."

- Louis Mann

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

- Richard Rohr

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

- Adam J. Kurtz

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

- William Bruce Cameron

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

- Herb Kelleher

"Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten — it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging."

- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

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

- Biz Markie

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Mark Ruffalo

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

- Ada Lovelace

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

- James Goldsmith

"What gets celebrated gets replicated."

- Bradley Cooper

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

- Jason Sudeikis

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

- Sofia Vergara

"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

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

- President Reagan

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

- MacKenzie Scott

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

- H.G. Wells

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

- Eleanor Hodgman Porter

"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

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

- Pearl Dion

"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

"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

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

- Gladys Knight

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

- Vera Nazarian

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

- Maria Bamford

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Idris Elba

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

- Steven Spielberg

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

- Bob Dylan

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

- Gilda Radner

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Satchel Paige

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Reid Hoffman

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

- Jodie Foster

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Michael Ende

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Charlie Munger

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

- Phil Knight

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

- Jennifer Lawrence

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

- Clayton Christensen

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Joseph Pulitzer

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

- Leslie Jones

"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

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."

- Sam Walton

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Edward Norton

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

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

- Brad Pitt

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

- Katarina Witt

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

- Catherine Pulsifer

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Rudyard Kipling

"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

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

- Jason Fried

"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

"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

- Jimmy Carter

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

- David Hurley

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- A. A. Milne

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Byron Pulsifer

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

- Kate Summers

"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

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"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

"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

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

- Stephen Colbert

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"Benjamin Franklin was a humanitarian that dedicated his life to making contributions to all humans. He had a clear purpose for himself: improve the human race."

- Paulo Braga

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

- Aristotle

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Dave Carolan

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Vince Gilligan

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

- Ruben Dario

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

- Al Pacino

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Ken Hubbard

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

- Marvin Hagler

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Mike Birbiglia

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Chris Rock

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

- W. E. B. Du Bois

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Mike Erwin

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

- George Carlin

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

- Saint Peter

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

- Will Rogers

"Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate."

- Kieran Culkin

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

- Susan B. Anthony

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

- Euripides

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

- Shigeru Miyamoto

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

- James Taylor

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

- Myrtle Aydelotte

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"Life’s tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid."

- John Wayne

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

- S. O’ Sade

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Bill Murray

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

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- John Lennon

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

- Larry Page

"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

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

- Buddah

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

- Various

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

- Unknown original

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

- African Proverb

"Happiness is an inside job."

- Anonymous

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

- William Shakespeare

"I think, therefore I am."

- René Descartes

"All men are created equal."

- _Declaration of Independence_

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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 will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you’ll thank them both."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case you fail by default."

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

"You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."