100+ Personal Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Strength

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

- Maya Angelou

"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Frederick Douglass

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Octavia Butler

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

- Earl Nightingale

"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 one who'll decide where to go..."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Muhammad Ali

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

"Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything you do."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Mother Teresa

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

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

- Kesha

"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

"You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that dragons can be killed."

- G. K. Chesterton

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

- Michael Altshuler

"The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will’. Consider nothing impossible then treat possibilities as probabilities."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Walter Anderson

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

- Walt Disney

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

- Brian Tracy

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

- George Addair

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy."

- Dr. Henry Link

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time."

- Don Zimmer

"Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality."

- Brian Tracy

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela

"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- E.E. Cummings

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"Chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Walt Disney

"Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."

- Brian Tracy

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Jimmy Dean

"Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today."

- Will Rogers

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences."

- Brian Tracy

"We become what we think about"

- Earl Nightingale

"Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!"

- Brian Tracy

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

- Helen Keller

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."

- William James

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

- Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."

- Albert Einstein

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Brian Tracy

"Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?"

- Brian Tracy

"We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in 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

"The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you."

- Brian Tracy

"Make your life a masterpiece, imagine no limitations on what you can be, have, or do."

- Brian Tracy

"It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

- Michael Phelps

"To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage."

- Confucius

"The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly."

- Brian Tracy

"Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it."

- Sue Hadfield

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

- Og Mandino

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

- John Wooden

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Don’t count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."

- Wayne Dyer

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

"Self-doubt kills talent."

- Edie McClurg

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Your life only gets better when you get better."

- Brian Tracy

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle."

- Steve Jobs

"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Rob Siltanen

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

- Brian Tracy

"War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate."

- Marvin Gaye

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Mae Jemison

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

- Mae West

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas Edison

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Charles Kettering

"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

"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

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

"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

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dale Carnegie

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

"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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Winston Churchill

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

- Shel Silverstein

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- William James

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Mae Jemison

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Viola Davis

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Alexander the Great

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Albert Einstein

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before."

- Shinzo Abe

"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

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

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

- Anne Frank

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."

- Elaine Welteroth

"Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions."

- 14th Dalai Lama

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Joseph Campbell

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today."

- James Dean

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

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

- African Proverb

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

- Stephen Covey

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

"No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work."

- Jonathan Sacks

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

- Walt Disney

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Aristotle

"A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way."

- Proverb

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."

- Joyce Chapman

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Kevin Kruse

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

- George Lucas

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

- Robert Hall

"It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."

- Mark Cuban

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work."

- Stephen King

"Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."

- Patrick Suskind

"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."

- Michael Lopp

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Harry Golden

"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Dolly Parton

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

- Neil Gaiman

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

- Albert Einstein

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

"Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."

- Haile Gebrselassie

"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all you heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

- Dale Carnegie

"Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Saint Francis

"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."

- Pete Cashmore

"When I meet successful people, I ask about 100 questions to find out who they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence, hard work and hiring good people."

- Kiana To

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others."

- Nathaniel Branden

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

"All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves."

- Jag Randhawa

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."

- Harvey Mackay

"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."

- Fred Allen

"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."

- Angela Ahrendts

"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."

- Meghan M. Biro

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

"Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole."

- Tracy Streckenbach

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

- Arnold Glasow

"Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company."

- Zig Ziglar

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."

- Margaret Thatcher

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win."

- Emily Voyles

"It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together."

- Lloyd Dobens

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

- Brian Tracy

"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

- Paulo Coelho

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."

- Simon Sinek

"Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation."

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

"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

"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done."

- Robin Sharma

"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute."

- Simon Sinek

"Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job."

- Scott and Kelly Blanchard

"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."

- Eraldo Banovac

"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret."

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Albert Einstein

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that."

- Herb Kelleher

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

"People want to know they matter, and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract."

- Pamela Stroko

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways."

- Bob Nelson

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

- Douglas MacArthur

"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."

- Bob Nelson

"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’"

- Komil Toume

"If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work."

- Ari Weinzweig

"Employees aren't just workers, they're the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business."

- Kilroy J. Oldster

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

- Carrie Ann Moss

"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."

- Allen Saunders

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot — it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."

- Maya Angelou

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

"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

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

"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

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

- Walt Disney

"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

"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

"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

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

- Bo Jackson

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Epicurus

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

"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

"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

"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."

- Arianna 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

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"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

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

- Bruce Lee

"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

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordon

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

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Dr. Seuss

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

"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

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Carrie Fisher

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"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

"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 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

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"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

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- A. A. Milne

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"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

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Yvie Oddly

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

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

- Pema Chodron

"Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you."

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Dr. Seuss

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Steven Furtick

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Erica Jong

"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

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

"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

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

- Dita von Teese

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Mark Cuban

"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

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

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

- Bill Nye

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Rick Warren

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."

- Bill Keane

"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 Buffett

"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

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

- Hafez

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

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- W. P. Kinsella

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Ronald Reagan

"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you."

- Lupita Nyong'o

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"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

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

"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

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

"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

"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

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Epictetus

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

- Cicely Tyson

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- David Hurley

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Deep Roy

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Zendaya

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Annette Funicello

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Charles Dickens

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Michael Altshuler

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

- Mother Theresa

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

- Mikhail Gorbachev

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

- Loretta Lynn

"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

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

- Edwin Elliot

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Change the game, don’t let the game change you."

- Macklemore

"Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Make sure your worst enemy is not living between your own two ears…"

- Nitya Prakash

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Every closed door isn’t locked and even if it is…YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!"

- Sanjo Jendayi

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

- Henry C. Link

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."

- Grace Kelly

"Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body."

- Brian Tracy

"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

"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."

- Thomas A. Edison

"A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Deep Roy

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

- Dorothy West

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

"Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur."

- Mohnish Pabrai

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

- Sofia Vergara

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Dave Carolan

"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

"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

"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

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Anne Heche

"Limit your ' always' and your ' nevers.'"

- Amy Poehler

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Constance Wu

"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

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

- Tom Lehrer

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

- Elie Wiesel

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

- James Caan

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another…"

- J.A. Tran

"It hurt because it mattered."

- John Green

"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

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Chinese Proverb

"With a smile and a song, life is just like a bright sunny day. Your cares fade away."

- Snow White

"When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now…"

- Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen

"Just because it’s what’s done doesn’t mean it’s what should be done!"

- Cinderella

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

- Lewis Carroll

"There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking."

"For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

"Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are."

"I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes."

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

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

"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."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

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

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