100+ Self Inspirational Quotes About Life to Empower Your Journey

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

- Confucius

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Aristotle

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Viola Davis

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

- George Eliot

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

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Bruce Springsteen

"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

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lady Gaga

"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

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

- Bonnie Prudden

"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

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

- Robert Frost

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Carrie Fisher

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

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

- Chinese Proverb

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- John Wooden

"If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don’t love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can’t give anything else but that."

- Gisele Bündchen

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."

- Alan Cohen

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?"

- Goldie Hawn

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

- Coco Chanel

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I’m all about body positivity and self-love because I believe that we can save the world if we first save ourselves."

- Lizzo

"I am stepping right into where I am with no shame, and it feels good."

- Andie MacDowell

"Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people, and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference."

- Jane Fonda

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Winston Churchill

"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve."

- Walter Anderson

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed."

- Bob Riley

"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

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

- E.E. Cummings

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Theodore 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

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Les Brown

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

- Walt Disney

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

- William James

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

- Kurt Cobain

"Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently."

- Michelle Obama

"Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love."

- Alison Malee

"The same light you see in others is shining within you, too."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud, ‘I am lucky to be what I am!...’"

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Paulo Coelho

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."

- Deepak Chopra

"Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy."

- Suzy Kassem

"Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort."

- Deborah Day

"You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

- Louise L. Hay

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

- Charlotte Brontë

"Look inward—the loving begins with you."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow."

- Charlie Chaplin

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

- Les Brown

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

"In your own life it’s important to know how spectacular you are."

- Steve Maraboli

"You have to believe that your ideas, and your hope, and your being, deserve to take up space."

- Bianca Sparacino

"I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I’d want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps."

- Emma Stone

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

- Thomas Edison

"By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better."

- Laverne Cox

"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."

- Mary Dunbar

"I like me. I like my story and all the bumps and bruises. That’s what makes me uniquely me."

- Michelle Obama

"I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I’m sure of my love for life and that sort of thing. I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am."

- Dolly Parton

"The things that make me different are the things that make me."

- Piglet

"Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow."

- Kim Guerra

"One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself."

- Dwayne Johnson

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

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

- Rob Siltanen

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Y. Davis

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

- Jane Goodall

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

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

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

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

- Babe Ruth

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Ariana Huffington

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Paul Bryant

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Ruth Gordo

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Michael Jordan

"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"

- Bruce Lee

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Beyoncé

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"Treat yourself like someone you love."

- Glennon Doyle

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Confucius Kongzi

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

- Mark Cuban

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Childish Gambino

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else."

- E. E. Cummings

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Wayne Dyer

"You change the world by being yourself."

- Yoko Ono

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

- Marcus Garvey

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Michael Altshuler

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

- Ross Simmonds

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

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

- Drew Houston

"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

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

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

- Pema Chodron

"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire."

- Rumi

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."

- Brené Brown

"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

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

- Dalai Lama

"Don’t let the bastards grind you down."

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Tina Fey

"But I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms."

- Mindy Kaling

"At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I’m a good person."

- Taraji P. Henson

"Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring. So I go back to being me."

- Ain Eineziz

"I’m safe inside this container called me."

- Haruki Murakami

"And I said to my body, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath. And replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.’"

- Nayyirah Waheed

"You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful."

- Jasmine Warga

"May you choose yourself, always!"

- Malebo Sephodi

"At 54, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be."

- Michelle Obama

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

- Toni Morrison

"I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did."

- Henry James

"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

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

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

- Roseanne Barr

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."

- André Gide

"Keep watering yourself. You’re growing."

- E.Russell

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be."

- Jennifer Elisabeth

"It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit."

- Eartha Kitt

"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

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

- Coco Chanel

"Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."

- George R.R. Martin

"Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others."

- Parker Palmer

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

- Sylvia Plath

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"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

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Dita Von Teese

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness."

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

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"Talk to yourself like someone you love."

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."

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

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

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

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