"The sanest thing in this world is love."
- Anne Sexton
Love
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
- Ghandi
Forgiveness
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
- Ian Maclaren
Compassion
"You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you."
- Joseph Campbell
Personal Growth
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
Wisdom
"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."
- Armand Hammer
Hard Work
"The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering."
- don Miguel Ruiz
Happiness
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu
Taking Risks
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Ghandi
Perseverance
"It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."
- Anthony Robbins
Hard Work
"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others."
- Marianne Williamson
Leadership
"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure."
- Joseph Campbell
Motivation
"I am not afraid. I was born to do this."
- Joan of Arc
Bravery
"You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Presence
"The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child."
- Deepak Chopra
Presence
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
- William Arthur Ward
Overcoming Obstacles
"There is one grand lie: that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe."
- Wayne Dyer
Belief in Self
"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love."
- Gandhi
Forgiveness
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You,' that would suffice."
- Meister Eckhart
Gratitude
"Ask not what the world needs; ask what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard Thurman
Aspirations
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Mark Twain
Motivation
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau
Success
"Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
- Saint Francis
Motivation
"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."
- Jim Rohn
Motivation
"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."
- Tony Robbins
Goals
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."
- Malcolm X
Education
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"
- Lao Tzu
Balance
"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that."
- Herb Kelleher
Leadership
"Be happy with what you have while working for what you want."
- Helen Keller
Contentment
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."
- Angela Y. Davis
Change
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
- Jane Goodall
Compassion
"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."
- Hasidic Proverb
Self-confidence
"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
Personal Growth
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."
- Michael Jordan
Teamwork
"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."
- Stanley McChrystal
Leadership
"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
Courage
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"Dream big and dare to fail."
- Norman Vaughan
Aspirations
"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
Empowerment
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Teamwork
"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."
- Colin Powell
Hard Work
"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
Empowerment
"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."
- Brian Tracy
Teamwork
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
Courage
"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
Empowerment
"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
Hard Work
"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute."
- Simon Sinek
Leadership
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle
Success
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."
- Oprah Winfrey
Empowerment
"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
Love
"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
- Tony Robbins
Goals
"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.
Motivation
"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."
- Douglas MacArthur
Leadership
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work."
- Ari Weinzweig
Leadership
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
- Maya Angelou
Personal Growth
"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
Courage
"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Oprah Winfrey
Personal Growth
"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."
- Kevin Kruse
Success
"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
New Beginnings
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
- Napoleon Hill
Success
"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."
- Steve Jobs
Motivation
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"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
Ambition
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."
- Haile Gebrselassie
Hard Work
"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
Success
"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."
- Sundar Pichai
Success
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
Hope
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
- Dale Carnegie
Motivation
"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
Empowerment
"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
Motivation
"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."
- Oprah Winfrey
Courage
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
Originality
"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."
- Louise Hay
Personal Growth
"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."
- Lewis Carol
Compassion
"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change
"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
Hope
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
- Zig Ziglar
Goals
"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
Mindfulness
"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."
- Dr. Seuss
New Beginnings
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Courage
"When you’ve got a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."
- Michelle Obama
Teamwork
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
- Arianna Huffington
Personal Growth
"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
- Walt Disney
Motivation
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I’m possible!'"
- Audrey Hepburn
Ambition
"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."
- Laird Hamilton
Self-awareness
"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."
- Jay-Z
Resilience
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
Inspiration
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."
- Maya Angelou
Courage
"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."
- Mark Cuban
Positivity
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Courage
"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."
- Les Brown
Self-esteem
"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
"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
Teamwork
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
- Henry Ford
Teamwork
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller
Teamwork
"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."
- Patrick Lencioni
Teamwork
"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."
- Jean-Francois Cope
Teamwork
"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."
- Dalai Lama
Positivity
"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."
- Chris Grosser
Optimism
"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
Courage
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen R. Covey
Belief in Self
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Determination
"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."
- Mia Hamm
Taking Risks
"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
Creativity
"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."
- Jessica Ennis
Belief in Self
"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."
- Bo Jackson
Goals
"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."
- Mia Hamm
Success
"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman
Positivity
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius
Resilience
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer
Inspiration
"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
Compassion
"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
- Bill Gates
Learning from Mistakes
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."
- Maya Angelou
Compassion
"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."
- Jennifer Lopez
Self-awareness
"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."
- Sonia Sotomayor
Empowerment
"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
- Nelson Mandela
Ambition
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."
- Earl Nightingale
Aspirations
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
- John Dewey
Education
"Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job."
- Scott and Kelly Blanchard
Leadership
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
- Benjamin Franklin
Learning
"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
- Rob Siltanen
Change
"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
Personal Growth
"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
- Malala Yousafzai
Education
"Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company."
- Zig Ziglar
Leadership
"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."
- Robin Sharma
Success
"The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’"
- Komil Toume
Leadership
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
- Warren Buffett
Contribution
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Leadership
"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Hard Work
"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."
- Margaret Thatcher
Leadership
"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
Resilience
"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
Change
"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."
- Vera Wang
Success
"It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win."
- Emily Voyles
Teamwork
"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."
- Chinese Proverb
Personal Growth
"Employees aren't just workers, they're the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business."
- Kilroy J. Oldster
Leadership
"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."
- Helen Keller
Education
"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
Transformation
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Leadership
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Max DePree
Growth
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
- Ernest Hemingway
Personal Growth
"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."
- Harvey Mackay
Leadership
"Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation."
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Leadership
"Change brings opportunity."
- Nido Qubein
Change
"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."
- Angela Ahrendts
Leadership
"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done."
- Robin S. Sharma
Hard Work
"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."
- Stephen R. Covey
Leadership
"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."
- Jack Welch
Leadership
"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."
- Roseanne Barr
Empowerment
"Focus on being productive instead of busy."
- Tim Ferris
Productivity
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."
- C.S. Lewis
Adversity
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"
- Bruce Lee
Time Management
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
- Anne Dillard
Reflection
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
- Vidal Sassoon
Hard Work
"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit."
- Harry S. Truman
Teamwork
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
- Rosalynn Carter
Leadership
"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Motivation
"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."
- Luther Campbell
Hard Work
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
- David Brinkley
Resilience
"All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves."
- Jag Randhawa
Teamwork
"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."
- Fred Allen
Teamwork
"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."
- Meghan M. Biro
Respect
"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."
- Arnold Glasow
Leadership
"It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together."
- Lloyd Dobens
Teamwork
"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."
- Paulo Coelho
Teamwork
"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."
- Eraldo Banovac
Leadership
"Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways."
- Bob Nelson
Leadership
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."
- Nedra Glover Tawwab
Change
"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."
- Marilyn Monroe
Change
"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."
- Deborah Day
Change
"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."
- Amanda Gorman
Change
"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."
- Walt Disney
Education
"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."
- Cesar Chavez
Education
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
- Sydney J. Harris
Education
"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."
- Yvie Oddly
Success
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."
- Winston Churchill
Optimism
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
Reflection
"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
Empowerment
"If you want to fly give up everything that weighs you down."
- Buddha
Liberation
"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
- Shirley Chisholm
Empowerment
"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."
- Diane Von Furstenberg
Empowerment
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
- Margaret Thatcher
Empowerment
"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
Empowerment
"Women must learn to play the game as men do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Empowerment
"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."
- Confucius
Strength
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
Success
"One man with courage makes a majority."
- Andrew Jackson
Courage
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
Success
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
- Dale Carnegie
Learning from Mistakes
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
"Take the attitude of a student: never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."
- Augustine Og Mandino
Learning
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill
Determination
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey
Creativity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."
- Albert Einstein
Insight
"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
Compassion
"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change
"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
Courage
"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
Health
"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."
- Joe Girard
Success
"Be a positive energy trampoline —absorb what you need and rebound more back."
- Dave Carolan
Positivity
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."
- Dorothy West
Learning
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell
Change
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
- Alexander Graham Bell
Focus
"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson
Hard Work
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."
- Cindy Gallop
Empowerment
"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."
- Arlan Hamilton
Empowerment
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
- Mortimer J. Adler
Self-improvement
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
- Mae West
Contentment
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Aspirations
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
Personal Growth
"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."
- Buddha
Presence
"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
Philosophy
"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."
- Babe Ruth
Persistence
"The hard days are what make you stronger."
- Aly Raisman
Resilience
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
- Mother Theresa
Happiness
"Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up."
- Isabelle Lafleche
Motivation
"Either you run the day or the day runs you."
- Jim Rohn
Time Management
"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Family
"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."
- Shonda Rhimes
Personal Growth
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
New Beginnings
"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."
- John Wooden
Hard Work
"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
- Anne Lamott
Joy
"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
- Warren Buffet
Generosity
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."
- A. A. Milne
Contentment
"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."
- Jason Fried
Contentment
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
- Benjamin Franklin
Perseverance
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
- Henry Ford
Failure
"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."
- Edna Mode
Presence
"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."
- Steve Furtick
Self-awareness
"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."
- Don Cheadle
Self-awareness
"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."
- Leymah Gbowee
Courage
"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."
- Childish Gambino
Taking Risks
"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Awareness
"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."
- Constance Wu
Self-awareness
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"It’s not the will to win that matters —everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."
- Paul Bryant
Hard Work
"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."
- Indya Moore
Awareness
"People want to know they matter, and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract."
- Pamela Stroko
Leadership
"Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others."
- Nathaniel Branden
Self-esteem
"Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole."
- Tracy Streckenbach
Teamwork
"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."
- Margaret Carty
Teamwork
"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret."
- Mary Kay Ash
Leadership
"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."
- Mark Twain
Teamwork
"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."
- Bill Nye
Knowledge
"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."
- Bob Nelson
Leadership
"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
Empowerment
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."
- Henry David Thoreau
Respect
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."
- Confucius Kongzi
Learning from Mistakes
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
- Epictetus
Contentment
"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."
- J. Paul Getty
Leadership
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
- Vernon Sanders Law
Learning from Mistakes
"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
Education
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot."
- Michael Altshuler
Time Management
"Impossible is just an opinion."
- Paulo Coelho
Belief in Self
"There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Love
"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."
- Raymond Joseph Teller
Creativity
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
- William Osler
Contribution
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."
- William Hazlitt
Balance
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
- Confucius
Courage
"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Success
"Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
- A.C. Benson
Change
"We pass through this world but once."
- Stephen Jay Gould
Awareness
"Limit your 'Always' and your 'Nevers'."
- Amy Poehler
Balance
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life."
- Mark Twain
Happiness
"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."
- Maria Edgeworth
Presence
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."
- Colin R. Davis
Success
"Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself."
- Deepak Chopra
Love
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
Self-awareness
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"Done is better than perfect."
- Sheryl Sandberg
Productivity
"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
- Tom Lehrer
Reflection
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
- Winnie the Pooh
Positivity
"God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. You were never not coming here."
- Sufi poem
Faith
"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."
Aspirations
"You make time for the people you care about. If someone can't make time for you, then you are not a priority to them."
Relationships
"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."
Success
"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."
Empowerment
"Time is spent where your priorities lie."
Reflection
"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."
Failure
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."
Taking Risks
"You are exactly where you decided to be."
Responsibility
"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
Awareness
"Never let your fear decide your fate."
Facing Fears
"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."
Self-awareness
"Every shadow—no matter how deep—is threatened by morning light."
- Unknown
Hope
"A year from now you will wish you had started today."
Future
"A bird in a cage is safe but God didn’t create birds for that."
Nature
"Let go and let God."
Faith
"H.O.P.E. = Hold On. Pain Ends."
Hope
"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."
Resilience