The Ultimate Collection of Quotes to Inspire Students

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Take the attitude of a student: never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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 more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and, at some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Confucius

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

- B.B. King

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Thomas Edison

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- W.B. Yeats

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Michael Jordan

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Confucius

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

- Alice Walker

"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them."

- Mark Twain

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

- Arthur Ashe

"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

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Les Brown

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you."

- BB King

"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

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- John Wooden

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

- Albert Einstein

"Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder."

- Mason Cooley

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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

- Walt Disney

"Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated."

- R Collier

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Earl Nightingale

"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Every expert was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- General Colin Powell

"Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work."

- Usain Bolt

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferris

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

- Bruce Lee

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Steve Jobs

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

- Frederick Douglass

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

- Derek Bok

"There is no substitute for hard work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- George Addair

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Edward Young

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Henry Ford

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.”"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- George Eliot

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Albert Einstein

"Power’s not given to you. You have to take it."

- Beyoncé

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

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

- William James

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Tony Robbins

"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life."

- Frederick W. Robertson

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Tony Robbins

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"It's not about perfect. It's about effort."

- Jillian Michaels

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

- Ken Blanchard

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Ruth Gordo

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Babe Ruth

"Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself."

- Chinese proverb

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

- Shiv Khera

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

- Pablo Picasso

"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

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo

"Procrastination is opportunity’s assassin."

- Victor Kiam

"Your talents and abilities will improve over time, but for that, you have to start."

- Martin Luther King

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Stephen King

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

- Babe Ruth

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"To be an overachiever you have to be an over-believer."

- Dabo Swinney

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Stephen Covey

"You may delay, but time will not."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Milton Berle

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

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

- Confucius Kongzi

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited."

- Plutarch

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

- Christopher Germer

"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

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

- Ross Simmonds

"You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there."

- Ed Cole

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Beverly Sills

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Epicurus

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

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

- Erica Jong

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Winston Churchill

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Anne Frank

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

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

- John Wooden

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

- George Washington Carver

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"Take control of your life. The instant you take control, interesting things will come to you."

- Douglas Adams

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

- Dale Carnegie

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

- Kofi Annan

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

- William James

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest when you haven’t planted."

- David Bly

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."

- Jhumpa Lahiri

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

- David Ogilvy

"You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday."

- Charles F. Kettering

"A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

- Don Marquis

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

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

- Mia Hamm

"I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

- Elon Musk

"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young."

- Henry Ford

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Drew Houston

"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

"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 thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment."

- Stephen Covey

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- E.E. Cummings

"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

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

- Drake

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

- Shirley Chisholm

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"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

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Self-discipline is self-caring."

- M. Scott Peck

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

- Walter Bagehot

"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

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"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

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Steve Furtick

"Education is something we have to keep pursuing day after day."

- Premier Brian Gallant

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries."

- Rene Descartes

"With great power comes great responsibility."

- Voltaire

"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

"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

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"Seventy percent of life is just showing up."

- Woody Allen

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"You have to be odd to be No.1."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Pema Chodron

"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

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

- Richard Steele

"Learning is never done without errors and defeat."

- Vladimir Lenin

"Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good."

- Minor Myers

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Coco Chanel

"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

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"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

"Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning."

- Anton Chekhov

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Dave Carolan

"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

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too."

- Patrick Ness

"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

"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

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

- Warren Buffet

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"Take it all one day at a time and enjoy the journey."

- Kristi Barlett

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

- Louise Hay

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Charlie Munger

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Epictetus

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Edna Mode

"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

"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

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

- Herman Melville

"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest of the past centuries."

- Rene Descartes

"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."

- John Green

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- David Hurley

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"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

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- W. P. Kinsella

"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

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

- Constance Wu

"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

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- Dita Von Teese

"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

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

- Lily Tomlin

"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

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"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

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"A little progress each day adds up to big results."

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

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."

"Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow"

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

"What makes you different makes you beautiful"

"Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader."

"Dream big, but start small. The smallest step in the right direction can end up being the biggest step of your life."

"You don't find willpower, you create it."

"Strive for progress, not perfection."

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

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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

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

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