Inspiration in a Nutshell: A Collection of Short Motivational Quotes

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"The sanest thing in this world is love."

- Anne Sexton

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

- Gandhi

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

- Ian Maclaren

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Armand Hammer

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

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

- Sun Tzu

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

- Gandhi

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

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Marianne Williamson

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Joan of Arc

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Gandhi

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

- Meister Eckhart

"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

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

- Saint Francis

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Malcolm X

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

"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

"Be happy with what you have while working for what you want."

- Helen Keller

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

- Angela Davis

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Hasidic Proverb

"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

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Stanley McChrystal

"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

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

- George Lorimer

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"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

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

"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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"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

"When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Aristotle

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Tony Robbins

"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.

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you don’t create a great, rewarding place for people to work, they won’t do great work."

- Ari Weinzweig

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

- Kevin Kruse

"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

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there."

- Haile Gebrselassie

"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

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

- Sundar Pichai

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

- Babe Ruth

"Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Arianna Huffington

"The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Les Brown

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

"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

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Martha Graham

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Confucius

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Billie Jean King

"is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

"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

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- John Dewey

"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

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Rob Siltanen

"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

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"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

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

- Robin Sharma

"The real competitive advantage in any business is one word only, which is ‘people.’"

- Komil Toume

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."

- Margaret Thatcher

"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

"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

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

- Vera Wang

"It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win."

- Emily Voyles

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

- Chinese Proverb

"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

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation."

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."

- Angela Ahrendts

"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 Sharma

"Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers."

- Stephen R. Covey

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

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

- Roseanne Barr

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Bruce Lee

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

- Annie Dillard

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit."

- Harry S. Truman

"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

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

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

- David Brinkley

"All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves."

- Jag Randhawa

"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners."

- Fred Allen

"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans worthy of respect."

- Meghan M. Biro

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit."

- Arnold Glasow

"It is not a question of how well each process works; the question is how well they all work together."

- Lloyd Dobens

"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

"Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management."

- Eraldo Banovac

"Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways."

- Bob Nelson

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Deborah Day

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Yvie Oddly

"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

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

- Lady Gaga

"If you want to fly give up everything that weighs you down."

- Buddha

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

- Shirley Chisholm

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Augustine Og Mandino

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Epicurus

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"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

"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

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Dorothy West

"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

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- Mae West

"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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Buddha

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

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

- Mother Theresa

"Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up."

- Isabelle Lafleche

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- George Eliot

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

- John Wooden

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Warren Buffett

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

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

- Jason Fried

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Steven Furtick

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

- Don Cheadle

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Constance Wu

"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

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"People want to know they matter, and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract."

- Pamela Stroko

"Self-respect tends to inspire respect from others."

- Nathaniel Branden

"Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole."

- Tracy Streckenbach

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

- Margaret Carty

"Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."

- Mark Twain

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

- Bill Nye

"People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition."

- Bob Nelson

"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

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Confucius Kongzi

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

- Epictetus

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"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

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

- Michael Altshuler

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- William Osler

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

- William Hazlitt

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

- Confucius

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."

- A.C. Benson

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"Limit your 'Always' and your 'Nevers'."

- Amy Poehler

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"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

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

"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."

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

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

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

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

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

"You are exactly where you decided to be."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"Never let your fear decide your fate."

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

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

- Unknown

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

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

"Let go and let God."

"H.O.P.E. = Hold On. Pain Ends."

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."