100+ Quotes That Inspire and Empower You to Achieve Greatness

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Confucius

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Serena Williams

"Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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.

"Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- George Addair

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- George Addair

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Harlan Sanders

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Confucius

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference."

- Denzel Washington

"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

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

- Robert Collier

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Aaron Sorkin

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Kevin Hart

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

- Steve Jobs

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Walt Disney

"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

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"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

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

- Arthur Ashe

"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Michael Jordan

"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

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

- Araminta Ross (later known as Harriet Tubman)

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Regina Brett

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Viktor Frankl

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- George Eliot

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Maya Angelou

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Pope Benedict XVI

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Anaïs Nin

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Viola Davis

"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

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Edwin Elliot

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Tommy Hilfiger

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

- Lady Gaga

"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

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

- Gabrielle Union

"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

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Tyler Perry

"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

"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

"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

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

- Buddha

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- Michelangelo

"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

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Bob Proctor

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

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

- Juan Casimiro

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

- James Dean

"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

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- W. Clement Stone

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

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

- Hank Aaron

"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

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

- Max Cleland

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

- David Goggins

"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Alexander Hamilton

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

- Walt Disney Company

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved."

- Roy T. Bennett

"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Diana Ross

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Leymah Gbowee

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

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

- Childish Gambino

"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."

- Cicely Tyson

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Kate Winslet

"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

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

- Randall Munroe

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Judy Garland

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

- Swami Vivekananda

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Anthony Moore

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Charles Swindoll

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before."

- Shinzo Abe

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Robin Williams

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Winston S. Churchill

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

- James Dyson

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

- Caroline Myss

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Mark Cuban

"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

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

- Jude Law

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

- Michelangelo

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal."

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Mike Horn

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

- Octavia Spencer

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

- Will Arnett

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Pele

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

- Louis Pasteur

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

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"I’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

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

- Ralph Nader

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Christian Bale

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

- Confucius

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

- Chuck Norris

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Ovid

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Charlie Kaufman

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Indra Nooyi

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

- Gautama Buddha

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

- Reese Witherspoon

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- David Bowie

"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

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Satya Nadella

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

- Matt Damon

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

- Aristotle

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

- Tim Ferriss

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Ted Williams

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Wendy Kopp

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

- Daniel Day-Lewis

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

- Caterina Fake

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Zig Ziglar

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

- Michelle Obama

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you."

- Lupita Nyong'o

"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"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

"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

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- George Eliot

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

- Les Brown

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- William James

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

"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

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Maya Angelou

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"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

"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

"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

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Warren Buffet

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

- Mother Theresa

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jessica Ennis

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Stephen Covey

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Epicurus

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Joseph Campbell

"Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions."

- The Dalai Lama

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

- Steve Furtick

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Erica Jong

"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

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Ross Simmonds

"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

"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

"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

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."

- Elaine Welteroth

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"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

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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

- Mark Twain

"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

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

- Bruce Lee

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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

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

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Olivia Newton John

"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

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

- Vivian Greene

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

- Amanda Gorman

"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

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."

- Anne Frank

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

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- James Clear

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination"

- Mae Jemison

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- Ray Bradbury

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Les Brown

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Margot Robbie

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

- Confucius Kongzi

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

- Viktor E. Frankl

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

- Queen Latifah

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Grandma Moses

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Terry Crews

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Eric Ries

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Seth Godin

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Meryl Streep

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

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

- Madam C.J Walker

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

- Richard L. Evans

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

- Ray Lewis

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

- Howard Schultz

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

- Rosalind Brewer

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

- Grace Hansen

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Louis L’Amour

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- James Cash Penney

"Bet on me? Bet I will."

- Lizzo

"You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- William Wallace

"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

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

- Dylan Thomas

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"Through discipline comes freedom."

- Aristotle

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

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

- Jack Dixon

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Jack Dorsey

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Steph Curry

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

- Douglas Englebart

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

- Walt Disney

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

- St. Augustine

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

- Conan O’Brien

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

- Mikhail Gorbachev

"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

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

"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

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Ayn Rand

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"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

"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

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

- Joe Girard

"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

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

- Mark Cuban

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

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

- Catherine Pulsifer

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"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

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

- Edna Mode

"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

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

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Drake

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Pema Chodron

"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

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

- Philip Appleman

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

- Rainbow Rowell

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

- Anais Nin

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

- John Holt

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

- Mary Barra

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

- Tim Cook

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

- Douglas MacArthur

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

- Kevin Kline

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

- Brian Chesky

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

- Quentin Tarantino

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

- Nathaniel Branden

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

- Peter Drucker

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

- Martin Luther King

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- Willie Mays

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

- Salvador Dali

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

- Michael K. Williams

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

- Maria Bamford

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

- Bono

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

- Joe Frazier

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

- Mike Tyson

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

- Bob Marley

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

- Douglas Preston

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

- Anna Kendrick

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

- Larry David

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

- Amy March

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

- Carrie Fisher

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

- George Clooney

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

- Mason Cooley

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

- Peter Dinklage

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

- Dr. Dre

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

- Steven Spielberg

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Kalen Dion

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

- Chris Burkmenn

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Tricia Cunningham

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Loretta Lynn

"I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine."

- André Leon Talley

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

- Herman Melville

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- John Barrymore

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Caroll

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Nicole Kidman

"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."

- Lindsey Vonn

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

"Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"A dead-end street is a good place to turn around."

- Naomi Judd

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

- E.E. Cummings

"Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you."

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Kenny G

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Kesha

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

- Stephanie Perkins

"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

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

- Robert Byrne

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Robert Frost

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

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

- Loesje

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

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

- Selena Gomez

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

- Ida B. Wells

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

- Edith Wharton

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

- Josh James

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

- Brad Meltzer

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

- Doug Larson

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- General George S. Patton

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

- Plato

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

- John the Baptist

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

- Lorne Michaels

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

- Jason Sudeikis

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

- Richard Bach

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

- Halle Berry

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

- Michael B. Jordan

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

- Lionel Messi

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

- Sun Tzu

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

- Archimedes

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Bill Murray

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

- Ed Bastian

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

- Benedict Cumberbatch

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

- Sally Field

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

- Galileo Galilei

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

- Steve Wozniak

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

- G.K. Chesterton

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

- Milton Berle

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Josephine Baker

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

- Sara Blakely

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

- Robin S. Sharma

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- Sylvester Stalone

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

- W.B. Yeats

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

- Ronald McNair

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

- bell hooks

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Tom Hanks

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

- Lech Walesa

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Thomas Huxley

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

- Mario Andretti

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

- Charlie Chaplin

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

- Susana Martinez

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

- Sofia Vergara

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

- African Proverb

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

- Jimmy Stewart

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

- Keira Knightley

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

- William Morris

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Colin Firth

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Jennifer Lawrence

"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

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

- Katarina Witt

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Roger Ebert

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Sam Walton

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

- Roald Dahl

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

- Rose Kennedy

"Forget about style; worry about results."

- Bobby Orr

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

- Thomas Parkinson

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

- Michael Porter

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

- Herb Kelleher

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

- Diego Maradona

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

- William Osler

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

- John Shepherd-Barron

"What gets celebrated gets replicated."

- Bradley Cooper

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

- Saint Peter

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

- Julia Child

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

- Aristotle

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

- Stephen Sondheim

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

- Clayton Christensen

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

- Sandra Boynton

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Joseph Pulitzer

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

- MacKenzie Scott

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

- Bob Dylan

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

- Various

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

- Idris Elba

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"What's meant to be will always find a way"

- Trisha Yearwood

"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

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

- Jyoti Arora

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

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- Ringo Starr

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

- Katelyn S. Irons

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Gilda Radner

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

- Mark Twain

"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."

- Louis Mann

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

- President Reagan

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

- Loretta Lynn

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

- Beret Guidera

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

- Danny Boyle

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Rob Kalin

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

- T. Harv Eker

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

- Gladys Knight

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

- Dr. William DeVries

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Valentina Tereshkova

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

- Sydney J. Harris

"Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees."

- Sumi

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

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Pope Francis

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

- Reid Hoffman

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

- Thomas Merton

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

- Ricky Gervais

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Jodie Foster

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Let's be great."

- Terry Drake

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

- Jeff Barry

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

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- W. E. B. Du Bois

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

- Eleanor Hodgman Porter

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

- Pearl Dion

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Jason Fried

"We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person."

- Anne Heche

"Limit your ' always' and your ' nevers.'"

- Amy Poehler

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

- Vera Nazarian

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."

- Grace Kelly

"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

"Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate."

- Kieran Culkin

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Marvin Hagler

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

- Barbara Corcoran

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

- Margaret Gorman

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

- Sir Terry Waite

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

- H.G. Wells

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

- Mike Erwin

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

- Al Pacino

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

- Eddie Vedder

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

- James Taylor

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

- Brad Pitt

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

- Isaac Asimov

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

- Myrtle Aydelotte

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

- Euripides

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

- Stephen Colbert

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

- Satchel Paige

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Vince Gilligan

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

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

- John Lennon

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

- Shigeru Miyamoto

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

- Louis Daguerre

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

- Joel Willis

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

- Michael Che

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

- Michael Ende

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

- Charlie Munger

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

- Dick Gidron

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

- Ruben Dario

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'"

- James Caan

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

- Lyndon Johnson

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

- Saul Bellow

"God works a miracle!"

- William Bradford

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Becky Kennedy

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

- Matt Drudge

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Ada Lovelace

"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

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Hannah Hoch

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

- Larry Page

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Buddah

"Happiness is an inside job."

- Anonymous

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

- Bertrand Russell

"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."

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

"Life is short, and the world is wide."

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

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

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

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

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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

"I get up every morning and say, 'Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.'"

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

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

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

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