100+ Quotes of Inspiration and Motivation to Ignite Your Inner Fire

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Walt Disney

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

"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.

"There's power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there's grace in being willing to know and hear others."

- Michelle Obama

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

"I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. Not at the same time."

- Brene Brown

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Steve Jobs

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Bruce Lee

"You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice."

- Kerry Washington

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There’s only one you."

- Queen Latifah

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Confucius

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Bruce Lee

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- David Brinkley

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Drew Houston

"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

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"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

"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

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

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

- Tina Fey

"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

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

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

- Epicurus

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- John Wooden

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Roseanne Barr

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Madeleine Albright

"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

"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

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

- Anne Dillard

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Isaac Newton

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Robin Williams

"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

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

- Kevyn Aucoin

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Ronald Reagan

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"

- Paul J. Meyer

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

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

- ANNE FRANK

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

- Ben Okri

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"

- Robert H. Schuller

"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."

- Les Brown

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

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Swami Sivananda

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."

- Mother Teresa

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Francis of Assisi

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

- Robert Browning

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

- Edith Wharton

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Helen Keller

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Muhammad Ali

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Buddha

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

- Bear Bryant

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

- Milton Berle

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Nido Qubein

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Martin Luther

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Shakespeare

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

- Og Mandino

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Everything is within your power, and your power is within you."

- Janice Trachtman

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."

- Criss Jami

"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Fannie Flagg

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"It’s important to think of what it means to powerfully and successfully rise to challenges, and all that it requires: determination, clarity, and steering clear of victim mentality."

- Emma R. Wilson

"Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible."

- Rodolfo Costa

"Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret."

- Richelle Goodrich

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times when one only remembers to turn on the light."

- J.K. Rowling

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

"Do not fear failure. Dare to fail in order to find ways to succeed."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient."

- Daniel Kahneman

"Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less."

- Steve Goodier

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

- Brandon Sanderson

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

- Michelle Obama

"Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any."

- Danielle Fotopoulis

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

- Melinda French Gates

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

- Les Brown

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Shirley Chisholm

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- George Eliot

"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

"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

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

- Viola Davis

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Bruce Springsteen

"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

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"Don’t let what you _cannot_ do interfere with what you _can_ do."

- John Wooden

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Bob Proctor

"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

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

- Maria Robinson

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

- Abraham Maslov

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- W. Clement Stone

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Regina Brett

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

- Serena Williams

"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

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Confucius

"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

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

- Deepak Chopra

"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

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"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

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"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

"And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."

- John Steinbeck

"You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom."

- Roz Inga

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Sofia Vergara

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Kesha

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

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

"Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass."

- Rebecca Wells

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

- Richard Evans

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

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

- B. Olatunji

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Robert Brault

"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

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

- Loesje

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

- Friedrich Schiller

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

- Nicole Kidman

"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

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Alice Walker

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

"Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning."

- S. C. Lourie

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

- Max Levchin

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon."

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Herman Melville

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"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

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Simone Biles

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lady Gaga

"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

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

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Zendaya

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Bonnie Prudden

"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

"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

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Annette Funicello

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

- Michelangelo

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"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

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Drake

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Charlie Munger

"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

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- Reba McEntire

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

- David Hurley

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Epictetus

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- John Guare

"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

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

- Mae West

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"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

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."

- Francois Rabelais

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Bruce Lee

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

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

- Lady Gaga

"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

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

- Edna Mode

"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

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Arianna Huffington

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

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

- Confucius Kongzi

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Vernon Howard

"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

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- Danny Boyle

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Warren Buffet

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- A. A. Milne

"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

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Toni Morrison

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."

- Etty Hillesum

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Not everything needs to to be A level work. Sometimes C work is enough."

- my mom

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

- George Meredith

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

- T. D. Jakes

"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

"Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

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

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

"You are exactly where you decided to be."

"You make time for the people you care about. If someone can't make time for you, then you are not a priority to them."

"Small progress is still progress! It’s easier (and more sustainable) to make small, consistent progress than to completely overhaul your life and possibly burn out in the process because it’s too much change at once!"

"Perfect is the enemy of good enough"

"Perfection is the enemy of progress."

"The time will pass anyway."

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

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

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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

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

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."