"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
- John Quincy Adams
Success
"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."
- Paul J. Meyer
Productivity
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
- John F. Kennedy
Determination
"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
- Woody Allen
Success
"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
Aspirations
"I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan
Failure
"Learning is never done without errors and defeat."
- Vladimir Lenin
Learning from Mistakes
"Follow your fear."
- Tina Fey
Courage
"Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you."
- 37 Signals
Adaptation
"Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game."
- Babe Ruth
Courage
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot
Courage
"Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter."
- Francis Chan
Awareness
"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."
- Shiv Khera
Success
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."
- Winston Churchill
Leadership
"Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better."
- Jim Rohn
Personal Growth
"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."
- John D. Rockefeller
Success
"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."
- John Maxwell
Success
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
- Newt Gingrich
Perseverance
"There is no substitute for hard work."
- Thomas A. Edison
Hard Work
"If you’re going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill
Resilience
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
- Henry Ford
New Beginnings
"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."
- Ed Cole
Resilience
"Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things."
- Joe Paterno
Belief in Self
"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
Resilience
"You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak."
- George Clooney
Learning
"By perseverance, the snail reached the ark."
- Charles Spurgeon
Perseverance
"Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable."
- Drew Houston
Taking Risks
"Follow your dreams, believe in yourself, and don’t give up."
- Rachel Corrie
Aspirations
"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
Belief in Self
"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
Belief in Self
"The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others."
- Albert Schweitzer
Compassion
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding on the 20th."
- Julie Andrews
Perseverance
"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."
- Theodore N. Vail
Resilience
"There are those who work all day. Those who dream all day. And those who spend an hour dreaming before setting to work to fulfill those dreams. Go into the third category because there’s virtually no competition."
- Steven J. Ross
Ambition
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it."
- Washington Irving
Resilience
"All progress takes place outside of your comfort zone."
- Michael John Bobak
Personal Growth
"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."
- Christian D. Larson
Belief in Self
"Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself."
- Chinese proverb
Education
"When the student is ready, the master appears."
- Buddhist Proverb
Education
"If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes."
- Guy Kawasaki
Education
"Without studying the soul sick."
- Seneca
Education
"The man who is a teacher of patience is a master of everything else."
- George Saville
Education
"A book is like a garden that can be carried in your pocket."
- Chinese Proverb
Education
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would be amazed."
- Thomas Edison
Aspirations
"Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of an effort of intelligence."
- John Ruskin
Education
"Change your thoughts and you will change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change
"Your talents and abilities will improve over time, but for that, you have to start."
- Martin Luther King
Personal Growth
"True education is about getting the best out of oneself."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Education
"Books are dangerous. The best ones should be labeled with 'This could change your life.'"
- Helen Exley
Education
"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
Resilience
"Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age, is that of practicing it."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Education
"If you do not go to the end, why start?"
- Joe Namath
Motivation
"Learning without thinking is useless. Think without learning, dangerous."
- Confucius
Learning
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
- Mark Twain
Compassion
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
- W.B. Yeats
Education
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
- Dr. Seuss
Education
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."
- George Washington Carver
Empowerment
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
- Plutarch
Education
"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
- Malcolm Forbes
Education
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
- John Dewey
Education
"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."
- Christine Gregoire
Education
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
- Albert Einstein
Learning
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
- Allan Bloom
Education
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
- Kofi Annan
Education
"Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life."
- Shakuntala Devi
Education
"The more you learn, the more you earn."
- Warren Buffett
Education
"Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace."
- Confucius
Empowerment
"Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life."
- Brad Henry
Education
"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Education
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Education
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world for the better."
- Marian Wright Edelman
Education
"Education is the foundation of all we do in life. It shapes who we are and what we aspire to be."
- Julie Payette
Education
"End is not the end if fact E.N.D. Means “Efforts Never Dies."
- Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Motivation
"There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them."
- Ralph Marston
Motivation
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
- Carol Burnett
Change
"I think I can. I know I can."
- Jennifer Wittwer
Motivation
"Learning is never done without error, and defeat."
- Vladimir Lenin
Motivation
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
"Don’t wait for the opportunity. Create it."
- George Bernard Shaw
Motivation
"Success is the sum of all efforts, repeated day-in & day out."
- R. Collier
Motivation
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
- Og Mandino
Resilience
"I am indeed a king because I know how to rule myself."
- Pietro Aretino
Motivation
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
- FDR
Perseverance
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
- Margaret Mead
Self-awareness
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me, and I learn."
- Benjamin Franklin
Motivation
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller
Love
"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
Contentment
"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."
- Estée Lauder
Success
"If you get tired, learn to rest not to quit."
- Banksy
Motivation
"Make each day your masterpiece."
- John Wooden
Personal Growth
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
- Albert Einstein
Hope
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Resilience
"Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."
- Oprah Winfrey
Motivation
"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine."
- Neil Armstrong
Motivation
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
- Mark Zuckerberg
Motivation
"The best revenge is massive success."
- Frank Sinatra
Success
"Nothing great ever achieved without enthusiasm."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Motivation
"You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future."
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Motivation
"You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse."
- Elon Musk
Motivation
"An ounce of patience is worth more than tons of preaching."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Motivation
"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."
- Jimmy Johnson
Success
"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
Aspirations
"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."
- Albert Einstein
Future
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited."
- Plutarch
Education
"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
- John R. Wooden
Empowerment
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."
- Ralph Marston
Success
"Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good."
- Minor Myers
Compassion
"Rule no.1 is: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule no. 2 is: It’s all small stuff."
- Robert Eliot
Balance
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
- Aristotle
Success
"I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
- Elon Musk
Ambition
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker
Vision
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Aspirations
"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."
- Venus Williams
Belief in Self
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
- Maya Angelou
Personal Growth
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
- Karim Seddiki
Courage
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."
- A.A. Milne
Future
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
- Henry David Thoreau
Ambition
"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."
- Dr. Seuss
Education
"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."
- Chinese Proverb
Education
"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
Personal Growth
"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank
Empowerment
"I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful."
- Natalie Portman
Education
"If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."
- Malcolm Gladwell
Ambition
"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."
- Stephen Hawking
Personal Growth
"You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday."
- Charles F. Kettering
Future
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
- Sydney J. Harris
Education
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
- Dalai Lama
Happiness
"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
Contentment
"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
Change
"Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"It always seems impossible until it’s done."
- Nelson Mandela
Courage
"Study the past if you want to intuit the future."
- Confucius
Learning from Mistakes
"You can always be better."
- Tiger Woods
Personal Growth
"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
- C.S. Lewis
Optimism
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."
- C.S. Lewis
Adversity
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
- Yoko Ono
Love
"There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
- General Colin Powell
Success
"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted."
- David Bly
Hard Work
"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."
- Zig Ziglar
Success
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"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
Creativity
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
- Vincent van Gogh
Compassion
"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself."
- Harvey S. Firestone
Empowerment
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
- Beverly Sills
Success
"Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
- Jim Ryun
Motivation
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated."
- R Collier
Success
"It will not happen cutting corners, taking shortcuts, or looking for the easy way! There’s only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, repetition, study, and discipline."
- nimo_wehearit
Hard Work
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."
- Dale Carnegie
Perseverance
"If you don’t build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs."
- Tony Gaskin
Ambition
"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle
Ambition
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan but also believe."
- Anatole France
Aspirations
"Do not make your goal to be the best. The best is a label. It’s something someone else decides for you. ‘Better’ is more personal."
- Baryshnikov
Personal Growth
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
- Stephen King
Hard Work
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
- Benjamin Franklin
Learning
"When you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Perseverance
"Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose."
- Oprah
Aspirations
"The most successful people are those who are good at plan B."
- James Yorke
Adaptation
"The road to success is always under construction."
- Lily Tomlin
Success
"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
Hard Work
"Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success."
- Virat Kohli
Belief in Self
"Through hard work, perseverance, and faith in God, you can live your dreams."
- Ben Carson
Faith
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vidal Sassoon
Hard Work
"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."
- Zig Ziglar
Success
"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
Aspirations
"Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder."
- Mason Cooley
Productivity
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."
- Brian Herbert
Learning
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
- Don Marquis
Time Management
"Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill."
- Christopher Parker
Productivity
"Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin."
- Victor Kiam
Motivation
"My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that’s procrastination."
- Ron Cooper
Productivity
"Procrastination is the thief of time."
- Edward Young
Time Management
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
- George Washington Carver
Failure
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Ambition
"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
- Zig Ziglar
New Beginnings
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney
Motivation
"You have to be odd to be no.1."
- Dr. Seuss
Ambition
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."
- Dr. Seuss
Belief in Self
"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
Success
"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
Hard Work
"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Learning
"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
Motivation
"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."
- Michelangelo
Hard Work
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
- Confucius
Determination
"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
Failure
"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
Belief in Self
"Use all your efforts, even when the possibilities play against you."
- Arnold Palmer
Determination
"Set tough goals and do not stop until you get there."
- Bo Jackson
Goals
"The man well prepared for the struggle has achieved half a triumph."
- Miguel de Cervantes
Success
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart."
- Omid Kordgstani
Choice
"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."
- Swedish Proverb
Awareness
"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
Courage
"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
Belief in Self
"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."
- Charles Dickens
Time Management
"Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask."
- Albus Dumbledore
Empowerment
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light."
- Albus Dumbledore
Hope
"Working hard is important, but there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself."
- Harry Potter
Belief in Self
"Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do."
- Benjamin Spock
Self-confidence
"Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning."
- Bruce Lee
Learning
"Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Growth
"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
Courage
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
- Steve Jobs
Independence
"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
Education
"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."
- Malcolm X
Education
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."
- B.B. King
Education
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"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
Persistence
"What lies behind us and what lies before we are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inner Peace
"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
Hard Work
"I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care."
- Lou Holtz
Integrity
"Successful people begin where failures leave off. Never settle for ‘just getting the job done.’ Excel!"
- Tom Hopkins
Success
"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
Hard Work
"The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top."
- O.J. Simpson
Responsibility
"It’s not the time to look for excuses."
- Rafael Nadal
Responsibility
"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Time Management
"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
- Stephen Hawking
Success
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
- Sir Edmund Hillary
Personal Growth
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
Optimism
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
- Herm Albright
Overcoming Obstacles
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars."
- Les Brown
Aspirations
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe
Motivation
"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don’t want to make mistakes."
- John Maxwell
Productivity
"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 Pujols
Happiness
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw
Learning from Mistakes
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Failure
"I gave myself permission to make mistakes. I wouldn’t ever give myself permission not to try."
- Steve Pavlina
Learning from Mistakes
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
- William Arthur Ward
Aspirations
"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison
Failure
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough."
- Muhammad Ali
Aspirations
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
- James Joyce
Learning from Mistakes
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
"Infinite striving to be the best is Man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Motivation
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."
- Confucius
Failure
"Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up is for you alone to decide."
- Cavett Robert
Positivity
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Learning
"When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new."
- Dalai Lama
Learning
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
- Maria Robinson
Courage
"You were born to win. But to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win and expect to win."
- Zig Ziglar
Success
"The people who are crazy enough to believe they can change the world are the ones who do."
- Steve Jobs
Aspirations
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly, a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
- Thomas Edison
Learning
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
- Stephen Hawking
Learning
"The thing about motivated people chasing their dream is they look crazy to lazy people."
- Albert Einstein
Aspirations
"Remembering you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."
- Steve Jobs
Overcoming Obstacles
"It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
- Seneca
Overcoming Obstacles
"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
- Richard Branson
Learning
"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them."
- Harold J. Smith
Learning from Mistakes
"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."
- Jim Rohn
Motivation
"College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?"
- David Wood
Contentment
"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."
- Tim Notke
Hard Work
"Focus on being productive instead of busy."
- Tim Ferris
Productivity
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Self-awareness
"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take."
- Lewis Carroll
Reflection
"Inhale the future. Exhale the past."
- Eckhart Tolle
Mindfulness
"If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives."
- Lemony Snicket
Taking Risks
"Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better."
- Jim Rohn
Personal Growth
"The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there."
- Vince Lombardi
Success
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
- Chinese proverb
Education
"Be so good they can’t ignore you."
- Steve Martin
Achievement
"Instead of looking at the hundred reasons to quit, look at the thousand reasons not to give up."
Perseverance
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
Education
"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."
Compassion
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
Hard Work
"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."
Motivation
"Imagination… is the elixir of life, the seed of greatness."
Imagination
"You have three choices: give up, give in or give it everything you have got."
Motivation
"Successful people are not gifted. They just work hard, then succeed on purpose."
Hard Work
"If you can believe it, your mind can achieve it."
Aspirations
"The distance between dreams and reality is called action."
Aspirations
"The goal is to die with memories not dreams."
Aspirations
"If you have self-esteem, you give yourself the audacity to dream big."
Aspirations
"Never let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big."
Aspirations
"Productivity is about looking forward. Looking back too much, or trying to be too much of a perfectionist, can destroy that productivity. So keep going. Keep creating. Keep building."
Productivity
"A system is only as effective as your level of commitment to it."
Productivity
"Doing things properly in the first place is the best way to be more productive later. You simply have less to do."
Productivity
"What we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding."
Productivity
"Productivity boils down to two steps: identify the essential, then eliminate the rest."
Productivity
"The goal is not simply to get more done, but also to have less to do."
Productivity
"All the water in the sea can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, all the negativity in the world can’t get you down unless you allow it inside you."
Positivity
"Worrying is silly. It’s like wandering around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain."
Positivity
"Impossible is not a fact. It is an opinion."
Positivity
"When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars."
Positivity
"Be the spark everyone needs to brighten up their day."
Positivity
"Worrying doesn’t take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace."
Positivity
"Someone else is happy with less than what you have."
Positivity
"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling."
Positivity
"The more you give away the happier you become."
Motivation
"You either get bitter or you get better."
Learning from Mistakes
"The lessons you learn on your journey towards your destination will always be more valuable than the destination itself."
Learning from Mistakes
"When life puts you in tough situations, don’t way ‘why me’ say ‘try me’!"
Learning from Mistakes
"Fear is most commonly an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real."
Overcoming Obstacles
"Great things never come from comfort zones."
Growth
"Don’t let the fear of failure be greater than the excitement of success."
Overcoming Obstacles
"To overcome fear, you must go through it, not around it."
Overcoming Obstacles
"FEAR – Forget Everything And Run… or… Face Everything And Rise. It’s your choice."
Overcoming Obstacles
"Fear is the brain’s way of saying that there is something important for you to overcome."
Overcoming Obstacles
"Most of the things you worry about never even happen."
Overcoming Obstacles
"How can you move onto the next chapter of your life if you keep rereading the last one?"
Failure
"Fail often so you can succeed sooner."
Failure
"Behind every successful person, there are a lot of unsuccessful years."
Failure
"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."
Failure
"Doubt kills more dreams that failure ever will."
Failure
"Nothing you do now can change the past. But I promise you, everything you do now will determine your future."
Failure
"Failure defeats losers. Failure inspires winners."
Failure
"Be strong because things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it never rains forever."
Failure
"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."
Education
"The person you will be in 5 years is based on the books you read and the people you surround yourself with today."
Learning
"Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
Learning
"Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world."
Learning
"One day, all your hard work will pay off."
Motivation
"Every day is a second chance."
New Beginnings
"Opportunity does not happen, You need to create them."
Motivation
"Wake up with determination and go to bed with satisfaction."
- Unknown
Determination
"The earlier you start working on something, the earlier you will see results."
Motivation
"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to those who dream and work."
Motivation
"Life is short. Live it. Fear is natural. Face it. Memory is powerful. Use it."
Motivation
"Do what is right, not what is easy."
Motivation
"We generate fears while we do nothing. We overcome these fears by taking action."
Motivation
"It’s never too late to be what you might have been."
Motivation
"You don’t have to be great to start. But you have to start to be great."
Motivation
"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them."
- Unknown
Aspirations
"A river cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence."
Motivation
"To change your life, you must first change your day."
Change
"There’s no traffic after the extra mile."
Motivation
"Don’t stop until you’re proud."
Motivation
"Work as hard as you can and then be happy in the knowledge you couldn’t have done any more."
Hard Work
"You may see me struggle but you will never see me quit."
Motivation
"Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise."
Success
"Winners will fail over and over again until they succeed."
Failure
"Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent."
Learning
"Be stronger than your excuses."
Motivation
"Vision without execution is just hallucination."
Motivation