Short but Inspiring Quotes to Ignite Your Spirit

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Anais Nin

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Marie Curie

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Bill Gates

"You become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Michael Jordan

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules, you learn by doing, and falling over."

- Richard Branson

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

- Coco Chanel

"You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"Perhaps one day it will be pleasing to recall even such hardships."

- Virgil

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"I think, therefore I am."

- René Descartes

"Carpe diem."

- Horace

"I’d like people to think of me as someone who cares about them."

- Princess Diana

"That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

- Neil Armstrong

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Less is more."

- Rone

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own."

- Michelle Obama

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Jim Rohn

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

- Mother Teresa

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"What’s the world for if you can’t make it up the way you want it?"

- Toni Morrison

"Character is power."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations."

- Dr. Mae Jemison

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

- Albert Einstein

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."

- Voltaire

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The only approval you need is your own."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Michael Jordan

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"There is no courage without vulnerability."

- Brené Brown

"Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine."

- Mario Fernandez

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

- Maya Angelou

"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life."

- John Wooden

"Perpetual optimism [is] a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

- Plato

"Oh, the places you’ll go!"

- Dr. Seuss

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you."

- Much Ado About Nothing

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Family is not an important thing. It’s everything."

- Michael J. Fox

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Oscar Wilde

"I sustain myself with the love of family."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Kerry Washington

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"I was built this way for a reason, so I’m going to use it."

- Simone Biles

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

- Queen Latifah

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"The days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door."

- Brooke Shields

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

- Carol Burnett

"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

- Taylor Swift

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present."

- Bil Keane

"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

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

- Hafez

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

- Lucille Ball

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Walt Disney

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

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Maya Angelou

"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow."

- Helen Keller

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- George Lorimer

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Pressure comes when you decide to be uncommon."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Helen Keller

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

- Lance Armstrong

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

- George Addair

"I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You."

- Steve Jobs

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

"Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today."

- Will Rogers

"Nothing is impossible; the word itself says “I’m possible!”"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present.'"

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do."

- John Wooden

"If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be."

- Maya Angelou

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain

"not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

"Follow your heart. Listen to your inner voice. Stop caring about what others think."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

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

- Winston Churchill

"What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Confucius

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

- Aristotle

"The time is always right to do what is right."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are."

- Stephanie LaHart

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King

"There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved."

- George Sand

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

- Helen Keller

"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

- Mother Teresa

"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

"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

- Franklin P. Jones

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."

- Rita Mae Brown

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

- Estée Lauder

"Success is not a destination, it's a journey."

- Zig Ziglar

"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."

- Barbara De Angelis

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."

- Zora Neale Hurston

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

"Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you."

- Joel Osteen

"When you realize that God loves you and that He has a plan for your life, you can walk with your head held high—totally confident in who He created you to be."

- Joyce Meyer

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"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

"Believe that when you bring forth the best there is within you, you lift yourself to greater and greater heights."

- Les Brown

"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Francis of Assisi

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

- Maya Angelou

"Happiness is always a choice. You can’t wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day."

- Joel Osteen

"Keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"God doesn’t take you in a straight line. There are twists and turns. It may not happen the way you thought, but the disappointments, the bad breaks are all a part of God’s plan."

- Joel Osteen

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"If your thinking is limited, your life will be limited. When you think better, you’ll live better."

- Joel Osteen

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward."

- T.D. Jakes

"Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely."

- Jim Rohn

"Faith doesn’t always mean that God changes your situation. Sometimes it means He changes you."

- Steven Furtick

"You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

- John C. Maxwell

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

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

- Chris Grosser

"The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."

- Benjamin Mays

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- Lolly Daskal

"You gotta decide to be happy. Where you wanna live. What you wanna drive. You have to make a decision!"

- Eric Thomas

"The difference between winners and ordinary people is winners follow through despite fear while others just dream and take no action."

- Calvin K. Lee

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"It is your determination and persistence that will make you a successful person."

- Kenneth J Hutchins

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself."

- Tecumseh

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Give the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you."

- Madeline Bridges

"Changing our attitude about change is one of our best management tools. Look for opportunities in every change in your life."

- Meir Liraz

"Life is like a moving river, and you can be at the mercy of the river if you don’t take action to steer yourself in a predetermined direction."

- Mahesh Jethmalani

"If you’re broken-hearted today, God has good news that says 'weeping may endure for the night but joy comes in the morning'."

- Matthew Hagee

"Focus on your potential instead of your limitations."

- Alan Loy McGinnis

"I’ve learned that dreams can be challenging, can sometimes feel intimidating, and are always worth the SUCCESS they can bring."

- Darren Hardy

"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

"The will of God will never take you to where the grace of God will not protect you. To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

- Bernadette Devlin

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

- Mark Twain

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

- Gabrielle Union

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Allen Saunders

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Mae West

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

- Salvador Dalí

"No one ever fell in love without being a little bit brave."

- Mario Tomasello

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family."

- Anthony Brandt

"The best mirror is an old friend."

- George Herbert

"Fortune favors the brave."

- Virgil

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Roxane Gay

"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

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

- Robert Frost

"Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind."

- Dodinsky

"Give light, and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

"Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream."

- Oprah Winfrey

"It is better to travel well than to arrive."

- Buddha

"The sky isn’t the limit — the sky has no limit."

- Sarah Barker

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

- Leo Buscaglia

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Robert Frost

"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 only way to have a life is to commit it to like crazy."

- Angelina Jolie

"Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is, and you'll see them all around you."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"I have standards I don’t plan on lowering for anybody, including myself."

- Zendaya

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

- Judy Garland

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare."

- Audre Lorde

"If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them."

- Bell Hooks

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served."

- Nina Simone

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

- Brené Brown

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Helen Keller

"Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

- Andy Warhol

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

- Anaïs Nin

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

- Neil Gaiman

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

- Walter Anderson

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

- Tricia Cunningham

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

- Albert Einstein

"Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got."

- Janis Joplin

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

- Coco Chanel

"You can’t be hesitant about who you are."

- Viola Davis

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Edwin Elliot

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Herman Melville

"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down."

- Mary Pickford

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

- Aldous Huxley

"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."

- Judy Garland

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

- Pamela Vaull Starr

"Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"The Man Who Has Confidence In Himself Gains The Confidence Of Others."

- Hasidic Proverb

"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits."

- Jerry Dunn

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination."

- Tommy Lasorda

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

- Steve Prefontaine

"Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t."

- Jerry Rice

"What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow."

- Jay Cutler

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

- Jim Rohn

"For Every Reason It’s Not Possible, There Are Hundreds Of People Who Have Faced The Same Circumstances And Succeeded."

- Jack Canfield

"I Think Goals Should Never Be Easy, They Should Force You To Work, Even If They Are Uncomfortable At The Time."

- Michael Phelps

"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

"Things Work Out Best For Those Who Make The Best Of How Things Work Out."

- John Wooden

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, and some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

"Strength does not come from the physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Ghandi

"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best."

- St. Jerome

"Failure is a part of life. From time to time you will fail at something. That does not mean that you should give up and never be happy."

- Clement Getate

"If you want peace you don’t talk to your friends, you talk to your enemies."

- Desmond Tutu

"Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow."

- Douglas Pagels

"The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today. Spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now."

- Priscilla Shirer

"Every single time that something goes well for you, even the tiniest little achievement, be pleased with yourself."

- Rebecca Turner

"Embrace your fear as a flaw and work with these steps of changing that flaw into determination. Procrastination won’t stand a chance against you!"

- Mark Thomas

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- George Eliot

"Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention, or influence."

- Gary Zukav

"It’s going to be a journey. It’s not a sprint to get in shape."

- Kerri Walsh Jennings

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

- Lily Tomlin

"If you think lifting is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous."

- Bret Contreras

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"Imperfections are beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Milton Berle

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- Edith Wharton

"If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment."

- Carlos Santana

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

- Alice Walker

"Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."

- Charles Schulz

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

- Duke Ellington

"Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise."

- Frank Ocean

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Toni Morrison

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

- Mark Twain

"Friendship's the wine of life."

- Edward Young

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

- Albert Einstein

"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."

- Bill Watterson

"Families are like fudge—mostly sweet, with a few nuts."

- Les Dawson

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard

"It’s a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon."

- Kermit the Frog, The Muppets

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

- Nikki Giovanni

"I can resist everything except temptation."

- Oscar Wilde

"Don't find fault, find a remedy: anyone can complain."

- Henry Ford

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."

- Marie Osmond

"Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster; it’s more like a cha-cha."

- Robert Brault

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

- Truman Capote

"Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia."

- Charles Schulz

"Life is short, and it is here to be lived."

- Kate Winslet

"True friendship is like a rose. We don’t realize its beauty until it fades."

- Evelyn Loeb

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Bonnie Prudden

"No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers."

- Wolfgang Riebe

"Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost."

- Martina Navratilova

"I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."

- A.A. Milne

"No man goes before his time — unless his boss leaves early."

- Groucho Marx

"True love stories never have endings."

- Richard Bach

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

- Anthony Robbins

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

- Emily Brontë

"The only easy day was yesterday."

- U.S. Navy SEALs

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."

- Steve Martin

"Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream."

- Alice Munro

"There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it."

- Mindy Kaling

"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?"

- Robin Williams

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"Bad decisions make good stories."

- Ellis Vidler

"When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard”, I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”"

- Sydney Harris

"Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."

- Robert Bloch

"If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you."

- Steven Wright

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

- Henry Ford

"Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it."

- George Carlin

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."

- Charles Lamb

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."

- Noel Coward

"Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that."

- Ellen Degeneres

"Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are."

- Will Ferrell

"A person without regrets is a nincompoop."

- Mia Farrow

"My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine."

- Caroline Rhea

"All my life I always wanted to be someone. I see now I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done."

- Steven Wright

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."

- Dorothy Parker

"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."

- George Carlin

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Confucius

"Hasta la vista, baby."

- Terminator 2: Judgement Day

"May the Force be with you."

- Star Wars

"Excelsior!"

- New York state motto

"Lux et Veritas."

- Yale University motto

"Impossible is nothing."

- Adidas

"Think different."

- Apple

"Just do it."

- Nike

"That which you think about, you create. Thoughts are things! And that which you think about, good or bad – you create into your own reality."

- Author Unknown

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

- Homer Simpson

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

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

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

"Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine."

"True friends are always together in spirit."

"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious."

"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."

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

"Semper Fidelis."

"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."

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

"Be happy for this moment. This moment in your life."

"If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission."

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

"In time of test, family is best."

"Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they worked on it every single day."

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

"Starve your distractions. Feed your focus."

"Whether You Think You Can Or Think You Can’t, You’re Right."

"The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow."

"Strive for progress, not perfection."

"Fitness is like a relationship. You can’t cheat and expect it to work."

"This is not just another day; this is yet another chance to make your dreams come true."