100+ One Line Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Motivation

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Henry Ford

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Jordan Belfort

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

- Anthony Robbins

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Tony Robbins

"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 you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Confucius

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Ariana Huffington

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Viola Davis

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Buddha

"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

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

- Kevin Kruse

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

- Allen Saunders

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

- Confucius

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

- Helen Keller

"Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet."

- Sadie Delany

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Grandma Moses

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself."

- Tony Robbins

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."

- Albert Schweitzer

"You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

- Harriet Tubman

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness."

- Jean Vanier

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

- C.S. Lewis

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going."

- Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr.

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever."

- Peter Hagerty

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."

- Danny Kaye

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

- John Wooden

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible."

- Joel Brown

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

- Mark Zuckerberg

"The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t."

- Joshua Becker

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

- Albert Einstein

"Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it."

- Winston Churchill

"If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it."

- Mother Teresa

"Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."

- Rumi

"Life is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."

- Saint Augustine

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Robert Frost

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

- Bertrand Russell

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

- Oscar Wilde

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- David Brinkley

"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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- George Eliot

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

- Les Brown

"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

"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

"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

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"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

"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

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mark Twain

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Epicurus

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

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

- Cindy Gallop

"The 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

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

- Erica Jong

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

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

- Malcolm X

"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

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Michael Jordan

"Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Yes, we can!"

- Barack Obama

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Because you are alive, everything is possible."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Lucille Ball

"Lead from the heart, not the head."

- Princess Diana

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Henry Ford

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Whatever you do, do it well."

- Walt Disney

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

- Oscar Wilde

"Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little."

- Marguerite Gardiner

"The biggest asset in the world is your mindset."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"Learning is a weightless treasure you can always carry easily."

- Chinese Proverb

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

"Tomorrow is now."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Character is power."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Dr. Mae Jemison

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- H.G. Wells

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

- Sam Levenson

"The only approval you need is your own."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Just stay on track and never look back."

- Dolly Parton

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

- The Beatles, "The End"

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

- Émile Coué

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

- John Wooden

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

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

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Plato

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Voltaire

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"There is no courage without vulnerability."

- Brené Brown

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

- Mario Fernandez

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Oh, the places you’ll go!"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- William Butler Yeats

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Nora Ephron

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

- Richard Branson

"Carpe diem."

- Horace

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

- Neil Armstrong

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Jesse Owens

"If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything."

- Mark Twain

"I don’t need it to be easy, I need it to be worth it."

- Lil Wayne

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

- Laird Hamilton

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Bruce Lee

"The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action."

- Scott Peck

"Every day is a good day. There is something to learn, care and celebrate."

- Amit Ray

"The simplest things are often the truest."

- Richard Bach

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Pema Chodron

"Learn to live with less so that you appreciate more."

- James Ryan

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

- Anne Frank

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live."

- Johnny Depp

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Robert Brault

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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

"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

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Ruth Gordo

"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

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Constance Wu

"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

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Maya Angelou

"Perpetual optimism [is] a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

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

- Audre Lorde

"Always be closing."

- David Mamet

"Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Live a simple life; you will own the most beautiful treasures of the world!"

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

- Henry David Thoreau

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

- William Arthur Ward

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

- Leonardo Da Vinci

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

- Reba McEntire

"I like criticism. It makes you strong."

- LeBron James

"Decisions without actions are worthless."

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Edna Mode

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- John Lennon

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

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

- Khalil Gibran

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

- John Guare

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

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

- Rose Kennedy

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"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

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

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

- Epictetus

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

- Steve Furtick

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

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

- Carl Sagan

"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

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

- Jay-Z

"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

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Melissa McCarthy

"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

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

- David Hurley

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Danny Boyle

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Tom Lehrer

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

"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

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Lee Ann Womack

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Paulo Coelho

"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

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

- Joseph Campbell

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

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

- William Hazlitt

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Nanea Hoffman

"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

"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

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Robert Byrne

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Warren Buffet

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Max Levchin

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"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

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

- Lady Gaga

"Every little thing is gonna be alright."

- Bob Marley

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

- Nicole Kidman

"Less is more."

- Rone

"I think, therefore I am."

- René Descartes

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

- Toni Morrison

"The only easy day was yesterday."

- U.S. Navy SEALs

"Just do it."

- Nike

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

- Mark Twain

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

- William Shakespeare

"Think different."

- Apple

"All you need is love."

- The Beatles

"Don’t stop believin’."

- Journey

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

- Nathan Hale

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

- Virgil

"No day but today."

- Jonathan Larson

"You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em."

- Kenny Rogers

"Let the river run, let all the dreamers wake the nation."

- Carly Simon

"Impossible is nothing."

- Adidas

"Keep on truckin’."

- Robert Crumb

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

- Princess Diana

"You can’t always get what you want."

- The Rolling Stones

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

- George Meredith

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!"

- T. D. Jakes

"The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years."

- Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

- Maya Angelou

"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."

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

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

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain."

"Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

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

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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

"Mistakes are proof that you are trying."

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"Success is not just about making money; it’s about making a difference."

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

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

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

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

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

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