Timeless Quotes of Wisdom and Inspiration: A Curated Collection to Enlighten Your Mind

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

- Aristotle

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Serena Williams

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

- Bertrand Russell

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

- Albert Einstein

"We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure."

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Confucius

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

- Winston Churchill

"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard… We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Robert Frost

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

- Mark Twain

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Viola Davis

"I don’t want to be thought of as the ‘girl who was shot by the Taliban’ but the ‘girl who fought for education. This is the cause I want to devote my life."

- 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

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

- Lao Tzu

"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

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

- Serena Williams

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."

- Princess Diana

"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans."

- Allen Saunders

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"

- Dolly Parton

"You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served."

- Nina Simone

"To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, this is the most important thing."

- Alicia Keys

"Everyone is a complicated human being, and everyone is strong and weak and funny and scared."

- Laverne Cox

"I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life."

- Kerry Washington

"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."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Seth Godin

"Someone once told me that ‘time’ is a predator that stalks us all our lives. But I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because it will never come again."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"The Pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

- John Maxwell

"Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, God-like, feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us. It’s very simple. This is what I believe, and I’m willing to die for it."

- Will Smith

"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."

- Bill Cosby

"I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try."

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Nelson Mandela

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

- Indira Gandhi

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To me, leadership is not about necessarily being the loudest in the room, but instead being the bridge, or the thing that is missing in the discussion and trying to build a consensus from there."

- Jacinda Ardern

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

- President John Quincy Adams

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all."

- Noam Chomsky

"Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you."

- Malcolm Forbes

"Focus your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little life of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

- Barack Obama

"The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary."

- Gloria Steinem

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

- George Orwell

"Remember, openness always means risks. To begin something new, you need to get rid of the old. And most of all, nothing should be taken for granted, everything is possible."

- Angela Merkel

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

- Sylvia Plath

"When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you’re not saying ‘no’ to yourself."

- Paulo Coelho

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."

- Maya Angelou

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style."

- Maya Angelou

"I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

- Maya Angelou

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

- Charles Dickens

"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."

- Jane Austen

"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away."

- Stephen Hawking

"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Anne Frank

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

- Anne Frank

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Mae West

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."

- Mark Twain

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

"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

"Saying it is impossible to live without failing at something is impossible. Unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

- J.K. Rowling

"The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better."

- Stephen King

"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."

- Walt Disney

"There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Charles Darwin

"Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength."

- G.D. Anderson

"All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience."

- Mary Wollstonecraft

"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves."

- Mary Wollstonecraft

"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult."

- Melinda Gates

"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in our absence."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice."

- Helen Keller

"Justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as being quiet. In fact, often times, the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

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

- Shirley Chisholm

"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

- Malala Yousafzai

"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

"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

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Confucius Kongzi

"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

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

"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

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Les Brown

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- John Wooden

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- William James

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

- Lucille Ball

"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

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jim Rohn

"If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers."

- Socrates

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

- Samuel Beckett

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

- Henry Ford

"We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us."

- Virginia Satir

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

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

- Dalai Lama

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."

- David Allen

"There is no traffic jam along the extra mile."

- Roger Staubach

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

- Denis Waitley

"Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much."

- Joan Collins

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

- C.S. Lewis

"If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six sharpening my axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

- Stephen Hawking

"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Ayn Rand

"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."

- Denis Waitley

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

- Colin Powell

"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare."

- Walt Disney

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

- Walt Disney

"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go."

- Sheila Murray Bethel

"Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt those doing it."

- Chinese Proverb

"When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen."

- Drake

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it."

- Alistair Cook

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Ralph Nader

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success."

- James Cameron

"When placed in command, take charge."

- Norman Schwarzkopf

"It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it."

- Seneca

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

- William James

"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

- Seneca

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

- Seneca

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Lao Tzu

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow."

- Lao Tzu

"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath."

- Amit Ray

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

- Marcus Aurelius

"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."

- Albert Einstein

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself."

- Hermann Hesse

"We should always be asking ourselves: “Is this something that is, or is not, in my control?”"

- Epictetus

"When you feel overwhelmed, start eliminating all the non-essential things from your life. Clarity brings calm."

- Darius Foroux

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency."

- Natalie Goldberg

"If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing."

- Ernest Hemingway

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t."

- John Green

"I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

- Charles Dickens

"We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim."

- R.M. Drake

"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"The fear of being laughed at makes coward of us all."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."

- Glenn Turner

"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live."

- Auguste Rodin

"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery."

- Charlie Chaplin

"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish."

- Charlie Chaplin

"We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents."

- Bob Ross

"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing.  Making your unknown known is the important thing."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable."

- Coco Chanel

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Michael Jordan

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

- John A. Shedd

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

- Jim Rohn

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

- Albert Einstein

"You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Epicurus

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."

- Maurice Switzer

"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

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."

- Mark Twain

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

- Isaac Asimov

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

- John Lennon

"Never did nature say one thing and wisdom another."

- Edmund Burke

"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

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

- William Shakespeare

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”"

- Alexandre Dumas

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."

- Isaac Asimov

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."

- Abigail van Buren

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

- Paulo Coelho

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

- Rumi

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

- Dr. Seuss

"You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do."

- Patrick Ness

"A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it were real, so he escapes suffering."

- Buddha

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour."

- Aristotle

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

- Seneca

"Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise."

- Frank Ocean

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

- Thomas Edison

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking."

- Malala Yousafzai

"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."

- Coco Chanel

"With each generation, women’s ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished."

- Cathy McMorris Rodgers

"There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

- Jane Austen

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

- Gloria Steinem

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn. We are filled with popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up."

- Gloria Steinem

"Don’t think about making women fit the world – think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

"A strong woman understands that gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts."

- Nancy Rathburn

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility: and he who knows most knows best how little he knows."

- Thomas Jefferson

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will."

- Amy Tenney

"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

"He that can compose himself is wiser than he that composes books."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Ruth Gordon

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Carol Burnett

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

"Ask not what the world needs; ask what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

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

- Confucius

"You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

"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

"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

"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

- Hermann Hesse

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- George Eliot

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Mark Twain

"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

"I am not afraid. I was born to do this."

- Joan of Arc

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

- Will Rogers

"It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them."

- Paulo Coelho

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Earl Nightingale

"Arrogance diminishes wisdom."

- Arabian Proverb

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

- Walt Whitman

"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion."

- Chinese Proverb

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Aristotle

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Henry Ford

"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

"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Wayne Dyer

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."

- Abba Eban

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

- William Shakespeare

"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

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Laird Hamilton

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Drake

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Drew Houston

"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

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

- George Addair

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Arianna Huffington

"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 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

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

- Confucius

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Steven Furtick

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"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

"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

"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

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

- Mark Twain

"The wisest of the wise may err."

- Aeschylus

"Wisdom at times is found in folly."

- Horace

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

- H. L. Mencken

"Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dearly for it."

- Dutch Proverb

"Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age."

- Proverb

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh."

- Kahlil Gibran

"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart."

- Charles Dickens

"The wise are only once betrayed."

- German Proverb

"Wisdom hears one thing and understands three things."

- Chinese Proverb

"Never laugh at live dragons."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is."

- Chad Sugg

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."

- Patrick Rothfuss

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

- Leo Tolstoy

"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink."

- Gina Carey

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me."

- Simone de Beauvoir

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Deepak Chopra

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"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

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

- Duke Ellington

"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

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Bob Marley

"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

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Kate Summers

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

- S. O’ Sade

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

- Nanea Hoffman

"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

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

- Anne Lamott

"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

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Dita von Teese

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

- Don Cheadle

"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

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

- John Lennon

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Ayn Rand

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Nicole Kidman

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

- Charlotte Brontë

"One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late."

- Agatha Christie

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

- Epictetus

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Earl Nightingale

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Charles Kettering

"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

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- David Hurley

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Nikki Giovanni

"To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Lily Tomlin

"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 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

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- Herman Melville

"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."

- Spinoza

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

- Alice Walker

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- W. P. Kinsella

"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit"

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lady Gaga

"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."

- Michael Jackson

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Colin R. Davis

"If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood."

- Peter Handke

"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

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Max Levchin

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

- John Guare

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

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

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Virginia Woolf

"The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying."

- Steven Pressfield

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

- Gandhi

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

- Louise Hay

"If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals."

- Lou Holtz

"Many people have gone a lot farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could."

- Zig Ziglar

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

- Sun Tzu

"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

"Love means protection, adoration, mutual growth, & respect above all other things. Without this, love is an illusion, a confused attachment."

- Dena Botbyl

"You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you."

- Wayne Dyer

"Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile…initially scared me to death."

- Betty Bender

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

- Mother Teresa

"What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences."

- Anthony Robbins

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

- William Arthur Ward

"In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain."

- Paulo Coelho

"Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions."

- Tony Robbins

"The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all."

- Michelangelo

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love."

- Gandhi

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

- Mark Twain

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

- Gandhi

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

- Teddy Roosevelt

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure."

- Joseph Campbell

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

- Aristotle

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

- Albert Einstein

"There is one grand lie: that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe."

- Wayne Dyer

"Whether you KNOW it or not, ACCEPT it or not, with each moment that passes, you get closer to fulfilling your life’s purpose."

- Dena Botbyl

"We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back."

- Harvey Mackay

"Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life."

- Seneca

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child."

- Deepak Chopra

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

"You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you."

- Joseph Campbell

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is."

- Albert Einstein

"Learning to unlearn is the highest form of learning."

- Buddhist Proverb

"Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

- Bruce Lee

"Every great mistake has a half way moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

- Pearl S. Buck

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “ Thank You,” that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart

"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

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

- Zendaya

"Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals."

- Gandhi

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Edwin Elliot

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

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Kesha

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Sofia Vergara

"You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself, there’s nothing wrong with being ambitious."

- Angela Merkel

"[My mother] told me that fear was not an option. I was always told that women are stronger, so I believed it."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"And you, you scare people because you are whole all by yourself."

- Lauren Alex Hooper

"Half woman, half warrior. Delicate and strong."

- R.H. Sin

"Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen."

- The Alchemist

"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel."

- King Solomon

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

- Jane Goodall

"It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."

- Anthony Robbins

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Ian Maclaren

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."

- Anne Sexton

"As those move easiest who have learned to dance."

- Alexander Pope

"When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn’t look back. He has to eat."

- Robert Cheruiyot

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

- Henry David Thoreau

"All the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy."

- Yogic sages

"We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves."

- William Hazlitt

"My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power."

- Deepak Chopra

"Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not."

- Paulo Coelho

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there."

- Rumi

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."

- Aaron Rose

"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

- Maya Angelou

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

- John Milton

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."

- Sarah Bernhardt

"Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit."

- Deepak Chopra

"The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you."

- Michael Ventura

"Whatever I fight weakens me. Whatever I cooperate with strengthens me."

- Wayne Dyer

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."

- Clementine Paddleford

"Whatever is… is best."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"To me faith means not worrying."

- John Dewey

"God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. You were never not coming here."

- Sufi poem

"When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Louis L'Amour

"Act, & God will act."

- Joan of Arc

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

- Galileo

"Anxiety is just repeatedly experiencing failure in advance."

- Seth Godin

"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you."

- John E. Southard

"You must choose between your attachments and happiness."

- Adyashanti

"In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don’t worry. Be happy."

- Bobby McFerrin

"The sanest thing in this world is love."

- Anne Sexton

"When two people fall in love, past and future disappear."

- The Alchemist

"There is only love; there is nothing else."

- Dena Botbyl

"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."

- Armand Hammer

"The Pearl Principle – no inner irritation, no pearl."

- Lama Surya Das

"We only get to play this game one time, one life."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods."

- Socrates

"Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others."

- Mark Twain

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

- Aldous Huxley

"Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Constance Wu

"paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can."

- Julius Caesar

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

- Confucius

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes."

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

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

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit."

"It’s kind of fun to do the impossible."

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

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

"Giving up is not failing — it’s the chance to begin again."

"There are three ways to lead: 1. By example 2. By example 3. By example."

"Discipline is an exercise of repetition. Not once or twice but until. Until completed."

"Detachment is not indifference. Detachment is love without expecting anything in return."

"Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?"

"Not only is the kingdom of heaven within, but the kingdom of Hell is within as well – it’s your choice."

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."

"Positive people don’t need an outside push; they seemingly have a natural internal push that continually pulls them forward."

"A bird in a cage is safe but God didn’t create birds for that."

"Let go and let God."

"Be willing to say to those in your charge, “I don’t know.”"

"When I choose to imagine someone’s pain/perspective I lose my appetite for anger."

"By acting bravely we become brave; not the other way round."

"Every shadow—no matter how deep—is threatened by morning light."

- Unknown

"The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them."

"Speak less, say more."

"Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be."

"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everybody else."

- Unknown

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

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

"Healing is not linear."

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

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

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

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

"Many people are afraid of the dark, but the real tragedy is those who are afraid of the light."

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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