Inspiring Quotes to Celebrate the People Who Motivate Us

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Arthur Ashe

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You have to believe it’s possible and believe in yourself. Because after you’ve decided what you want, you have to believe it’s possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches."

- Jack Canfield

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

- Bob Proctor

"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you."

- Bob Proctor

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

- Frederick Douglass

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Octavia Butler

"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

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Ayn Rand

"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- George Addair

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- W. Clement Stone

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ariana Huffington

"I 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

"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you than you see in yourself and helps bring it out of you."

- Bob Goshen

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Beyoncé

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Uplift people, celebrate people, help people shine. Don't stop to think about how you look in comparison; just celebrate people's shiny moments."

- C. JoyBell C.

"One of my favourite things to do is to show people how much they can shine! I am absolutely in love with watching people step into their full capacity to illuminate. Self-love does not cause arrogance; it is insecurity and abandonment at the root of arrogance. At the root of arrogance you'll find low self esteem. There is space enough for everyone to shine just like there is space enough for all of the stars in the sky. There's nothing I dislike more than people who have to dim down another's light because they're afraid of it. Let a person be the luminary that they are."

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Nelson Mandela

"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better."

- Steve Jobs

"The mediocre mentor tells. The good mentor explains. The superior mentor demonstrates. The greatest mentors inspire!"

- Lucia Ballas Traynor

"Mentoring is not about making people like you, but about helping them become the best version of themselves."

- David Stoddard

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Regina Brett

"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

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

- Confucius

"The people closest to me determine my level of success or failure. The better they are, the better I am. And if I want to go to the highest level, I can do it only with the help of other people. We have to take each other higher."

- John C. Maxwell

"Your mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"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

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

"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

"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

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Mister Rogers

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

- John Wooden

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- David Ogilvy

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"There is 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

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

- Epicurus

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Ross Simmonds

"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

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Pema Chodron

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordo

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Roxane Gay

"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

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- George Eliot

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

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

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

- Juan Casimiro

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

- James Dean

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

- Abraham Maslov

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

- W. Clement Stone

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction."

- John C. Crosby

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest self."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Great mentors give wise guidance."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

- Isaac Newton

"The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves."

- Steven Spielberg

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

- Winston Churchill

"Your mentors in life are important, choose them wisely"

- Bill Walsh

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

- Carl Jung

"My mistakes have been my greatest mentors"

- Steve Maraboli

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

- Margaret Mead

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."

- Khalil Gibran

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth."

- Dan Rather

"What you want in a mentor is someone who truly cares for you and who will look after your interests and not just their own. When you do come across the right person to mentor you, start by showing them that the time they spend with you is worthwhile."

- Vivek Wadhwa

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"We must find the time to stop and thank those the people who make a difference in our lives."

- John F Kennedy

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"Never stop loving people. That is the only fight worth fighting."

- Avijeet Das

"The worst kind of person is the type that goes around minimizing the achievements of other people. If anything at all, I want to maximize whatever achievements and admirable qualities another person has. The better you do, or are, the louder I'll cheer for you. I am into wanting eagles to soar further and higher. I'm not a chicken farmer. There are so many chicken farmers. I cannot stand people who cannot stand in the light of another without trying to diminish it."

- C. JoyBell C.

"In leadership, you gotta love people first. Love the position second."

- Janna Cachola

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Aristotle

"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

"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

"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

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Lady Gaga

"Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general."

- Germany Kent

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

"Leading is about people and their wellbeing the first foundation to the organisations wellbeing."

- Janna Cachola

"Take a moment today to acknowledge someone special who has made a difference in your life."

- Germany Kent

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

- Bruce Springsteen

"Throughout this journey of life we meet many people along the way. Each one has a purpose in our life. No one we meet is ever a coincidence."

- Mimi Novic

"When you maintain a professional attitude with sincerity and enthusiasm people will take notice and this will cause unbelievable opportunities to come your way."

- Germany Kent

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Healthy relationships are wholesome and inspiring."

- Germany Kent

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Toni Morrison

"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

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

- Bill Clinton

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Colin R. Davis

"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

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and, therefore, fallible; it makes our own short-comings more tenable."

- John Wooden

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

- Bruce Lee

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in marking winners out of ordinary people"

- Patricia Cross

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

- Richard Evans

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"True mentors have this unique ability to pick up vibes that everyone else misses from within you."

- Ahmad R Kazi

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind"

- Samuel Taylor

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Rose Kennedy

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

"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

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

- E.M. Forster

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

- Lee Ann Womack

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Walter Anderson

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

- Mae West

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

- Robert Byrne

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

- William Osler

"More than mere teachers, mentors are often emancipators, freeing artists from poor technique, clouded vision and personal uncertainty."

- Paul Soderberg

"In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn."

- Phil Collins

"I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business."

- Richard Branson

"Mentoring is an indispensable requirement for an artist’s growth. Not only are skills and experience shared, but there is value in the essential re-examination of one’s own work and techniques."

- Jim Norman

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Michelangelo

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- Warren Buffet

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

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

- Danny Boyle

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

- Anne Lamott

"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

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

- Vernon Howard

"Most busy people want to mentor someone great."

- Ramit Sethi

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Loesje

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

- Reba McEntire

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

- William Hazlitt

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"So having people to shadow you or mentoring people - that's important to me."

- Maria Taylor

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- John Lennon

"One lesson of many lessons I learned from my father was to talk straight with people. It may surprise people to speak frankly, but ultimately it is a more efficient and honest way to communicate. People appreciate that."

- David Gasparyan

"Maybe the happiest people in life don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything."

- Harmon Okinyo

"TO LEAD A HAPPY LIFE, FOLLOW YOURSELF AND TO LEAD A SUCCESSFUL LIFE, FOLLOW PEOPLE."

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

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

- Dita Von Teese

"The power of your journey is hugely related to connection and alignment which are not to be taken lightly."

- Germany Kent

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

- Leymah Gbowee

"THE RICHEST PERSON IS NOT THE ONE WHO HAS THE MOST, BUT THE ONE WHO GIVES THE MOST"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

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

- Don Cheadle

"At times, fate brings forth individuals on our journey who share an inexplicable connection with us—a connection that transcends our comprehension. These souls seem to mirror the contours of our own destiny, aligning with us through a mysterious force beyond our grasp."

- Donald Pillai

"My two favorite types of people are artists and scientists because they think and act beyond the obvious."

- Don Rittner

"As a writer and a poet, I like listening rather than talking. Invariably I like to listen to the life stories and instances of many people whom I meet in life. And the people I meet shape the characters and the stories that I write."

- Avijeet Das

"We meet so many people in life, but we connect to the heart of very few!"

- Avijeet Das

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

- Friedrich Schiller

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

- B. Olatunji

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Constance Wu

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Nanea Hoffman

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Everyone is the right person for the right person."

- Raheel Farooq

"If destruction is your fashion, remember construction is my passion"

- Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"Everything becomes a story. The conversations that I have, and the moments that I spend with people around me. The moments of silences that I have in my day to day life. The sudden wanderings that I have in my weekends. The dreams that I dream. The thoughts that I think. Everything becomes a poem or a story in my life."

- Avijeet Das

"It is beautiful to know people before they rise."

- Kingsley Ofosu-Ampong

"People shall know what to attack in you but remember they shall not know what to prevent in them"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"Remember, to be negroe does not mean inferiority, it means humanity."

- Francisco Catengue Ngoia

"When people maintain pin-drop silence at your life, you are almost dead and when people maintain non-stop noise in your life, you are utmost alive"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"You come with a cry to know the people and the world, when you leave the world, the people cry for knowing yourself"

- Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"Give me a hundred useless people, I shall build a robot for hundreds of usefulness"

- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"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

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

- Maria Robinson

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

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

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

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

"One who refuses to seek the advice of others will eventually be led to a path of ruin. A mentor helps you to perceive your own weaknesses and confront them with courage. The bond between mentor and protégé enables us to stay true to our chosen path until the very end."

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

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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