100+ Quotes for Daily Inspiration: Ignite Your Motivation Every Day

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"You’re going to fall down, but the world doesn’t care how many times you fall down, as long as it’s one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up."

- Aaron Sorkin

"You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return."

- Nelson Mandela

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."

- Araminta Ross (later known as Harriet Tubman)

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

- George Addair

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Confucius

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

- Confucius

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Michael Jordan

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."

- Hank Aaron

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done."

- Charlie Kaufman

"I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change."

- Reese Witherspoon

"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."

- Wayne Dyer

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity."

- Nicole Kidman

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Les Brown

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- John Wooden

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- William James

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Ariana Huffington

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Mother Teresa

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Albert Einstein

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

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

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- W.P. Kinsella

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Babe Ruth

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

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

- Lee Ann Womack

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Buddha

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

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

- Anne Frank

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Oscar Wilde

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

- George Patton

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Jim Rohn

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."

- Pope John XXIII

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

- Walter Elliot

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

- Aldous Huxley

"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."

- Philip Sidney

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."

- Kyle Chandler

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

- Maya Angelou

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

- John F. Kennedy

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

- Robert Schuller

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- George Herbert

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

- Stephen Hawking

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

- FDR

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

- William Blake

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Gale Sayers

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

- H.G. Wells

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

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

- Winston Churchill

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

- St. Jerome

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

- Aristotle

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Zig Ziglar

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off."

- Kevin Hart

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

- James Clear

"I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true — hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it."

- Ray Bradbury

"Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."

- Tony Robbins

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose."

- Pele

"I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Will Arnett

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."

- William Morris

"The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible"

- Mike Horn

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

- Peter Drucker

"Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice."

- Terry Crews

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King

"The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."

- Eric Ries

"God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."

- Mother Teresa

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from."

- Seth Godin

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day."

- Willie Mays

"Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself."

- Meryl Streep

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

- Brian Tracy

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world."

- Oscar Wilde

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."

- Michael Jordan

"Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

- Richard L. Evans

"Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day."

- Ray Lewis

"Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical."

- Howard Schultz

"I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know."

- Harlan Sanders

"Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth."

- Mike Tyson

"Before you speak, run this through your head: Is what I’m about to say true? Is it helpful? Is it inspiring? Is it necessary? Is it kind? If you cannot answer yes to these questions, then don’t say it, don’t tweet it, don’t write it."

- Beret Guidera

"You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect."

- Rosalind Brewer

"Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin."

- Grace Hansen

"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

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

- Robin Williams

"I’ll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done."

- Audie Murphy

"Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work, and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t."

- Lucille Ball

"It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Lucille Ball

"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws?"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- David Brinkley

"Life always offers you a second chance. It is called tomorrow."

- Dylan Thomas

"I’ve grown most not from victories but from setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us."

- Serena Williams

"Fear of looking stupid is the No. 1 killer of dreams. The worst part? The people who make you feel stupid are usually the ones least qualified to judge someone else’s life."

- Anthony Moore

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Robert Frost

"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Someone once said, ‘Adversity introduces a man to himself.’ For some reason, that’s scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger."

- Max Cleland

"The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves."

- Swami Vivekananda

"The lessons aren’t about wealth or fame or working harder and harder. The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period."

- Dr. Robert Waldinger

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out."

- Randall Munroe

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."

- Doug Larson

"Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask."

- Kate Winslet

"We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that."

- David Goggins

"Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life."

- Tyler Perry

"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive, and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream."

- Tommy Hilfiger

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

- Walt Whitman

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

- Conan O’Brien

"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

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

"When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."

- Josh James

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."

- Ida B. Wells

"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

"When we are no longer able to change a situation — we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor E. Frankl

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

- E.E. Cummings

"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life — and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O’Keeffe

"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 didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish."

- Daniel Day-Lewis

"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

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

- Aristotle

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."

- Caterina Fake

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Anaïs Nin

"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

"No failure means no risk, which means nothing new"

- Richard Branson

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Viola Davis

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

- George Eliot

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Geena Davis

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

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

- Carol Burnett

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Bruce Springsteen

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."

- Simone Biles

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Truman Capote

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Taylor Swift

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

"I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Audre Lorde

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Winston Churchill

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Naomi Osaka

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- John Lennon

"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

"Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it."

- Ted Williams

"If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like."

- Steph Curry

"Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you…. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way."

- Tim Ferriss

"The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple."

- Jack Dorsey

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"If you focus on results you’ll never change. If you focus on change, you’ll get results."

- Jack Dixon

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do."

- Jude Law

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."

- Michelangelo

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Bonnie Prudden

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

- Dale Carnegie

"Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?"

- Caroline Myss

"What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner."

- James Dyson

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

- Roxane Gay

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston S. Churchill

"Pressure is a privilege. It only comes to those who earn it."

- Billie Jean King

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"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

"Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life."

- Cesar Chavez

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Gautama Buddha

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Duke Ellington

"I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart."

- Rebecca Solnit

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon."

- Jim Rohn

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."

- Jack Canfield

"Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change."

- Richard Branson

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Being positive is a sign of intelligence."

- Maxime Lagace

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

- Jim Rohn

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

- Rick Riordan

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

- Thomas Edison

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."

- James Oppenheim

"Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities."

- Orison Swett Marden

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."

- Joseph Joubert

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

- Auguste Rodin

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Kesha

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

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Edwin Elliot

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Zendaya

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Annette Funicello

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Alice Walker

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Max Levchin

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Khalil Gibran

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough"

- Lionel Messi

"Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation"

- Isaac Newton

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

- Louis L’Amour

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

- Bob Marley

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk."

- James Cash Penney

"My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later."

- Douglas Preston

"When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It’s simple: if you aren’t willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is."

- T. Harv Eker

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."

- William Wallace

"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."

- Alexander Hamilton

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."

- Dalai Lama

"I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself."

- Beyoncé

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

- St. Augustine

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

"An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you."

- Indra Nooyi

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."

- Ovid

"I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."

- Christian Bale

"Success … is built on the foundation of courage, hard work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears."

- Susana Martinez

"I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I’m not saying I’m particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it."

- Kenny G

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

- African Proverb

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for."

- Jimmy Stewart

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work."

- Margot Robbie

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Grandma Moses

"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."

- Nathaniel Branden

"Anything in life worth having is worth working for."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Edith Wharton

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."

- Brad Meltzer

"I’m intimidated by the fear of being average."

- Taylor Swift

"I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future."

- Ralph Abernathy

"I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it’s a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy."

- Mike Rowe

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking."

- General George S. Patton

"Reality is created by the mind; we can change our reality by changing our mind."

- Plato

"Anyone with two tunics should share with him who has none."

- John the Baptist

"The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time."

- Julia Child

"If you look around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room."

- Lorne Michaels

"Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want."

- Jason Sudeikis

"I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship."

- Amy March

"It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say: If this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away."

- Douglas Englebart

"Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

- George Clooney

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you’re praying."

- Mason Cooley

"I’m a big believer in the power of inexperience. It was the greatest asset I had when I started TFA. If I had known at the outset how hard it was going to be, I might never have started."

- Wendy Kopp

"I hate that word: lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet"

- Dr. Dre

"All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long."

- Steven Spielberg

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."

- Francois Rabelais

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

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

- W. Clement Stone

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

- Alexander the Great

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back."

- Herb Kelleher

"The last 10 percent it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90 percent."

- Rob Kalin

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

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

- Lady Gaga

"If you do every job like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, that’s when you get noticed."

- Mary Barra

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

- Reba McEntire

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

"My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me."

- Michael K. Williams

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Frank Herbert

"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

"Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people."

- Joe Frazier

"[T]he world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape."

- Bono

"Boredom is a lack of crazy. It’s a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you’re bored, blame yourself."

- Katelyn S. Irons

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."

- David Bowie

"If you can’t fail, you can never get better."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

- Epictetus

"The best protection any woman can have … is courage."

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace."

- Robert Goddard

"So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow."

- Rainbow Rowell

"You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."

- Galileo Galilei

"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

"If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach."

- Steve Wozniak

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

- Sun Tzu

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

- G.K. Chesterton

"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."

- Pope Benedict XVI

"Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life."

- Philip Appleman

"Never complain and never explain."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

"This is not just a job. This is a passion. Connecting people, connecting the world, making a difference. How many jobs can say I made the world better today? We do that every single day."

- Ed Bastian

"The things that scare you only make you better and stronger."

- Octavia Spencer

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

- Rose Kennedy

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"Don’t let what you don’t know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you’re guaranteed to do them differently."

- Sara Blakely

"Either move or be moved."

- Ezra Pound

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

- Robert Byrne

"The first step is clearly defining what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it."

- Halle Berry

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

- William Osler

"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

- Robin S. Sharma

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

- Florence Nightingale

"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Mae West

"I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps … I’m the first Simone Biles."

- Simone Biles

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

- Frederick Douglass

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."

- Michael Porter

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- W.B. Yeats

"Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one."

- Ronald McNair

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- John Guare

"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."

- bell hooks

"Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage"

- Matt Damon

"Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn."

- Satya Nadella

"The chief cause of failure is substituting what you want most for what you want now."

- Zig Ziglar

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- William Butler Yeats

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Steve Furtick

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Billie Jean King

"We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to, that’s part of your obligation."

- Bill Murray

"You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them."

- Keira Knightley

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes."

- Sally Field

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

- Milton Berle

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you."

- Josephine Baker

"An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better."

- Clayton Christensen

"It seems to me that to be peaceful and content, you don’t have to know precisely what you want. It may even be better if you don’t. But I think you do need to be very clear what you DON’T want, and steadfast in the not-doing of those things."

- Sandra Boynton

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."

- Marcel Proust

"I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these 10 or 20 lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words."

- Joseph Pulitzer

"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."

- Sylvester Stalone

"Business is built on relationships, relationships are built on trust, and the foundation of trust is honesty."

- Various

"If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Melissa McCarthy

"If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late."

- James Goldsmith

"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

"If you’re ever thinking, Oh, but I’m a waste of space and I’m a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don’t you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?"

- Maria Bamford

"If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert."

- Paulo Coelho

"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

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"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

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

- Dalai Lama

"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

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

- Ayn Rand

"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

"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

"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

"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

"St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it."

- Alan Paton

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Epicurus

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do."

- John Holt

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

- Childish Gambino

"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

"It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t."

- Ricky Gervais

"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

"The biggest temptation is to settle for too little."

- Thomas Merton

"You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works."

- Pope Francis

"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world."

- Archimedes

"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

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky."

- Valentina Tereshkova

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

- Pema Chodron

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is an 80 percent friend, not a 20 percent enemy."

- President Reagan

"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

"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

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"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

"You can’t be afraid of what people are going to say, because you’re never going to make everyone happy."

- Selena Gomez

"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."

- Diana Ross

"Great artists steal’ is … about finding inspiration in the work of others, then using it as a starting point for original creative output."

- Adam J. Kurtz

"Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don’t want to in order to figure out what it is you’re supposed to do."

- Larry David

"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I feel like if it’s not scaring you, you’re doing it wrong."

- Anna Kendrick

"Being an optimist after you’ve got the very thing you want doesn’t count."

- Ken Hubbard

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you."

- Mark Cuban

"You do this because you like it, you think what you’re making is beautiful. And if you think it’s beautiful, maybe they think it’s beautiful."

- Lou Reed

"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

- John F. Kennedy

"Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand."

- Ada Lovelace

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."

- Stephen Sondheim

"I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work."

- William Shatner

"I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty."

- Susan B. Anthony

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

- Vera Nazarian

"It’s easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do."

- Mark Ruffalo

"We always honor our people when they die; we’ve got to honor them while we’re still alive."

- Biz Markie

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- William Bruce Cameron

"To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at."

- Claude Monet

"God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God’s love for us."

- Saint Peter

"What gets celebrated gets replicated."

- Bradley Cooper

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end."

- Gilda Radner

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times."

- Mark Twain

"Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody’s job and don’t just settle."

- Michael B. Jordan

"You are never too good for anything. Always be willing to do everything."

- Thomas Parkinson

"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."

- Colin Firth

"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain."

- Charlie Chaplin

"A lot of times, people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do."

- Chuck Norris

"This is it. This is life, the one you get."

- Jeff Barry

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

- H.G. Wells

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

- C.S. Lewis

"There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate, when a particular course of action just feels right. And, interestingly, I’ve discovered it’s in facing life’s most important decisions that intuition seems the most indispensable."

- Tim Cook

"Sometimes you can only find heaven by slowly backing away from hell."

- Carrie Fisher

"There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity."

- Douglas MacArthur

"If God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it!"

- Eleanor Hodgman Porter

"The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success."

- Kevin Kline

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

- Thomas Huxley

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like."

- Brian Chesky

"Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart."

- Quentin Tarantino

"My soul is that of a drummer…. I didn’t do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life."

- Ringo Starr

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Sofia Vergara

"We each come by the gifts we have to offer by an infinite series of influences and lucky breaks we can never fully understand."

- MacKenzie Scott

"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."

- Lech Walesa

"The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name."

- Sylvia Browne

"It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you’d better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call."

- Jyoti Arora

"That’s the best part of the whole thing, is the people that we’ve met along the way. We’ve met some wonderful, wonderful people and we wouldn’t have otherwise."

- Pearl Dion

"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."

- Louis Mann

"There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."

- Sam Walton

"People think I’m an overnight success. No. It’s just that you all found me overnight."

- Leslie Jones

"The big money is not in the buying and selling … but in the waiting."

- Charlie Munger

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from."

- Jodie Foster

"Waking up in truth is so much better than living in a lie."

- Idris Elba

"There is no element of genius without some form of madness."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl

"We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom."

- Bertrand Russell

"Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders."

- Senator Mitt Romney

"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"If all I do in my life is soothe someone’s spirit with a song , then let me do that and I’m happy."

- Gladys Knight

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent."

- Bob Dylan

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me"

- Diego Maradona

"It’s tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 a.m. when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas."

- Marvin Hagler

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

- Rudyard Kipling

"When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative."

- Chris Rock

"It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant."

- Katarina Witt

"To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts."

- Roger Ebert

"Forget about style; worry about results."

- Bobby Orr

"All medicine is like that. It came from someone who dared."

- Dr. William DeVries

"Your messaging should convey, ‘Here’s why you would be so lucky if you got me,’ instead of ‘I really wanted it,’ which we all tend to do."

- Barbara Corcoran

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

- Aristotle

"If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling."

- Vince Gilligan

"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."

- James Taylor

"It was the first evidence to me that we’d changed the world."

- John Shepherd-Barron

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

- Danny Boyle

"There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: There are no rules."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

- Buddah

"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."

- Shigeru Miyamoto

"It’s beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it’s well deserved."

- Jennifer Lawrence

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

- Cormac McCarthy

"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'"

- Sydney J. Harris

"It’s a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers."

- Michael Che

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

- Isaac Asimov

"Think about me every now and then, old friend."

- John Lennon

"Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul."

- Sir Terry Waite

"You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs."

- Ruben Dario

"It was the ultimate dream. But the idea of a young black American like me owning a Cadillac? It seemed too far-fetched."

- Dick Gidron

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

- Edna Mode

"I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me."

- Eddie Vedder

"One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks."

- George “Babe” Ruth

"Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken."

- Myrtle Aydelotte

"Done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Constance Wu

"It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart."

- Al Pacino

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

- Euripides

"I have captured the light and arrested its flight. The sun itself shall draw my pictures."

- Louis Daguerre

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

- Anne Lamott

"People have confused playing devil’s advocate with being intelligent."

- Cecily Strong

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

- A. A. Milne

"I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it, and tomorrow as the moon sees it."

- Hannah Hoch

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

- Jason Fried

"It’s a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering. There’s no escaping that."

- Stephen Colbert

"Next time you think you are important, try ordering somebody else’s dog around."

- Will Rogers

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends."

- Lyndon Johnson

"Write this down, young man. Life has been extremely, I say extremely, kind."

- Margaret Gorman

"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

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

- Nanea Hoffman

"Memory is original events combined with every other time you’ve remembered that event. This is why therapy’s helpful."

- Becky Kennedy

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

- David Hurley

"You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?"

- Satchel Paige

"I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals."

- Brad Pitt

"God works a miracle!"

- William Bradford

"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."

- Baltasar Gracián

"Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart."

- Michael Ende

"To scale, do things that don’t scale."

- Reid Hoffman

"I was literally just doing my job."

- Stanislav Petrov

"Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate."

- Kieran Culkin

"You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows."

- Matt Drudge

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it."

- Bill Murray

"Bridge the age gap. For younger people, find a way to spend time with older people. For the more silver-haired among us, I’m telling you: Find a few things the young kids are into — music, tech, sports — and check them out."

- Mike Erwin

"In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I can’t tell you which one is right. But I can tell you which one is more fun."

- Phil Knight

"It’s better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you."

- Edward Norton

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Get into what your kids are into. How miserable would it be to always be anti-popular stuff like ‘ughhhh you seriously like Taylor Swift?'"

- Joel Willis

"You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible."

- Larry Page

"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

"Everyone you meet in life is fighting a battle you know nothing about."

- Unknown original

"Happiness is an inside job."

- Anonymous

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

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

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

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got."

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"Some of the biggest achievements of your life will come from helping others achieve."

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

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

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

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."