100+ Powerful Quotes to Inspire Others and Ignite Your Passion

"One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed."

- Herman Cain

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

- Estée Lauder

"It's amazing that I can inspire little kids to know that you can be short or tall, and your body type doesn't matter because you can do anything."

- Simone Biles

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

- Ayn Rand

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

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

- Madam C.J Walker

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs."

- Stephen Covey

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

- Kobe Bryant

"You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts."

- Jason Silva

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don't feel like you have it in you, it's in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you."

- Teyonah Parris

"It's easy to feel helpless - like you can't fight the tide. But remember: small actions can have a huge impact, and one person like you can inspire others to action."

- Celeste Ng

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"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 can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"I want to inspire others by becoming an example and sharing my thoughts and actions."

- Debasish Mridha

"Always be there for others. Always inspire them with your dreams and hope, vision and mission, attitude and aptitude."

- Debasish Mridha

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

- Steve Jobs

"Inspire others without expecting anything in return. True joy is in giving."

- Debasish Mridha

"Be the light that inspires others to dream."

- Ken Poirot

"Greatness is inspiring others to be their best."

- Ken Poirot

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better."

- Melinda French Gates

"To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."

- Tony Dorsett

"I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way."

- Lady Gaga

"You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me."

- Stephen A. Smith

"The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel."

- John Glenn

"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."

- Tony Robbins

"I feel like I inspire more people than I think I do. I just need to remember that."

- Juice Wrld

"Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can."

- Jameela Jamil

"A lot of people think it takes millions of dollars to give back or inspire, but just you showing up means a lot."

- Kyle Kuzma

"Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm."

- Sebastian Coe

"I truly believe that diversity is so important, and I hope that I can use my platform to encourage and inspire other aspiring female artists."

- Madison Beer

"Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out."

- Jay-Z

"I aim to inspire a bunch of female guitar players to get out there and take it seriously and never give up."

- Orianthi

"I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams."

- Miley Cyrus

"Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you."

- Ralph Marston

"I want to inspire people to change the world. That's something that I feel that I'm meant to do here... really going to change the world. I asked God to make me immortal so I can do it."

- Bryson Tiller

"The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"I dared to be different, I want to inspire others to do the same."

- Susie Wolff

"I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams."

- Marlee Matlin

"The ability to act as a role model shouldn't depend on owning a pile of trophies. Instead, we should look at role models as whole people - people who fail but overcome adversity, people who inspire us both on and off the course, people who spend their time trying to make their community a better place."

- Paige Spiranac

"Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate."

- Harvey Fierstein

"When you do some good work and if it inspires others, then you have just created the ripple effect."

- Mohith Agadi

"Hang On To People That Inspire You. Do Work That Energises You."

- Wesam Fawzi

"I help people achieve their dreams."

- Ken Poirot

"We all serve as a vessel to be messengers for one another. Are you sharing the messages you are inspired to speak? Someone is waiting to hear your words."

- Nanette Mathews

"Be proud of the incredible person that you are... and become a rainbow in someone's cloudy day."

- Nyki Mack

"The stars of the night inspire you; and then you write poetry and inspire others; this time others create new things with the inspiration they get from you! You see, thousands of beauty are created with a simple inspiration!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"If your walking inspires others a lot then you should walk a lot because the good you give to others will definitely come back to you!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

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

- Roxane Gay

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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 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

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- Tony Robbins

"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

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Amanda Gorman

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

- Tricia Cunningham

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Dolly Parton

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome."

- Fannie Flagg

"It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Mark Twain

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat."

- Joel Osteen

"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

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

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

- Aristotle

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Ariana Huffington

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Louise Hay

"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

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Jane Goodall

"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

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Chris Grosser

"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

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

- Les Brown

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- John Wooden

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- William James

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

"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

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- David Brinkley

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"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

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Amelia Earhart

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

"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

"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

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Roseanne Barr

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"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

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

- Confucius Kongzi

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

"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

"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

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- George Eliot

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

- Mark Cuban

"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

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"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

"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

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

- Warren Buffet

"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

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Arianna Huffington

"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

"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

"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

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Coco Chanel

"Encouraging someone to be entirely themself is the loudest way to love them."

- Kalen Dion

"Encouragement is like water to the soul, it makes everything grow."

- Chris Burkmenn

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

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

- Truman Capote

"You are touching so many people's lives. You are a Sunflower."

- Avijeet Das

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Will Rogers

"Little sparks can ignite fireworks of accomplishments."

- Lin Rajan Thomas

"I'm not the best person at putting words together. I can't give you the melody. But I might inspire somebody."

- Meek Mill

"My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop."

- Kendrick Lamar

"Timidity does not inspire bold acts."

- Mae Jemison

"Superheroes are the best of us. Never mind all those powers or the crazy costumes. The heart of a superhero is meant to inspire."

- Marjorie Liu

"First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"If I inspire you, pay for it, period."

- Nipsey Hussle

"Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance."

- Douglas Conant

"The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself."

- Lake Bell

"Let's be great."

- Terry Drake

"I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort."

- Harold Ramis

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Everything we do in state government, we do with a shared purpose: to Empower People, Improve Lives and Inspire Success. Combined with our shared values of gratitude, curiosity, humility and courage, we're working to develop a positive and innovative state government culture in North Dakota."

- Doug Burgum

"The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all."

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Loretta Lynn

"Lucky Me' is the story of every young black man who grew up like me. I want to use my story to uplift and inspire those who lived this and educate those who didn't."

- Rich Paul

"These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'"

- Dav Pilkey

"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

"Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time."

- Dwayne Johnson

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

- David Hurley

"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

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Anne Lamott

"Through discipline comes freedom."

- Aristotle

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

"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

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

- Dave Carolan

"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

"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 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

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

- Kate Summers

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"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

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

- George Meredith

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

- Jason Fried

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Dorothy West

"The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation."

- Jonathan Sacks

"Honestly, I think Lily Collins and Felicity Jones. I think they're very classy, they're elegant, they're British, and they really inspire me because they're incredible actresses."

- Millie Bobby Brown

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Oscar Wilde

"I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me."

- Val Kilmer

"A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another."

- Kamala Harris

"Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not."

- Noam Chomsky

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

- T. D. Jakes

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

"My parole officer always believed in my capacity for redemption, even when my actions did not inspire confidence."

- Alan K. Simpson

"Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men."

- Voltaire

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

"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."

"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."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."