Inspiration Unleashed: A Curated Collection of Powerful Quotes to Ignite Your Spirit

"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

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up."

- Regina Brett

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

- Confucius

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

- Walt Disney

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Winston Churchill

"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.

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time."

- Thomas Edison

"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

"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die tomorrow."

- James Dean

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

- Muhammad Ali

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

- Bruce Lee

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards."

- Bear Bryant

"The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

- Steve Jobs

"To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"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

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

- George Eliot

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Naomi Osaka

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"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

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Ruth Gordo

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

- Walt Disney Company

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Duke Ellington

"Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live."

- Roy T. Bennett

"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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

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

- Aristotle

"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

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"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

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

"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

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Les Brown

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Carol Burnett

"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

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Truman Capote

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"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

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Steve Furtick

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"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

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Gabrielle Union

"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

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"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

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

- Earl Nightingale

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

- Robert Browning

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Francis of Assisi

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

- Warren Buffett

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone."

- John Wooden

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

- Martin Luther

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

- ANNE FRANK

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

- Vince Lombardi

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

- Jim Rohn

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Ronald Reagan

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

- Shakespeare

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

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

- Alexander the Great

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Robin Williams

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- George Eliot

"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will."

- W. Clement Stone

"The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do."

- Bob Proctor

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

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

"To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we have never done."

- Juan Casimiro

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslov

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present."

- B. Olatunji

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

- Napoleon Hill

"So many fail because they don’t get started."

- W. Clement Stone

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Joseph Campbell

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

- Isaac Newton

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

- Milton Berle

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

- Kevyn Aucoin

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Edith Wharton

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

- Lao Tzu

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

- Swami Sivananda

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

- Ben Okri

"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."

- Michael Jackson

"Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself."

- Octavia E. Butler

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been."

- Alan Alda

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Tina Fey

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

- Richard Evans

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

- Epictetus

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

"The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be."

- Loesje

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."

- John Ruskin

"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."

- Friedrich Schiller

"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

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- David Hurley

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"What's meant to be will always find a way"

- Trisha Yearwood

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"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

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Pema Chodron

"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

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

- Herman Melville

"Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved."

- Roy T. Bennett

"If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is."

- Chad Sugg

"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

"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

"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

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."

- Roy T. Bennett

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

- Geena Davis

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

- Don Cheadle

"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

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Dorothy West

"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

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

- Childish Gambino

"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

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Ross Simmonds

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"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

"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

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

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

- Bruce Springsteen

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

"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

"Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

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

- A. A. Milne

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

- Saul Bellow

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- Kate Summers

"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

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing."

- William Shakespeare

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."

- Michelangelo

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

- Oscar Wilde

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

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

- Lily Tomlin

"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

"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

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

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."

"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."

"There is no such thing as failure, only feedback."

"Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell."

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

"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."

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

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

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