100+ Short Positive Inspirational Quotes to Brighten Your Day

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Nelson Mandela

"In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time."

- Brené Brown

"You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it."

- Barack Obama

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

- Estée Lauder

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Be the best of whatever you are."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."

- Booker T Washington

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Angela Y. Davis

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."

- Helen Keller

"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

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

- Dolly Parton

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Muhammad Ali

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"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

"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

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"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

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Viola Davis

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Confucius

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Yvie Oddly

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Sundar Pichai

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

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

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

- Vera Wang

"We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- e.e. cummings

"If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want."

- Kevin Ngo

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Willie Nelson

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

- Kobe Bryant

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Maya Angelou

"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Henry Ford

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Albert Einstein

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Albert Einstein

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- W.P. Kinsella

"Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events."

- Joel Osteen

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

"Your attitude is critical to success. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work."

- Nick Saban

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

"Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking."

- Lee Ann Womack

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

- Paulo Coelho

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"

- Dolly Parton

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Mae West

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- William Osler

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

- Buddha

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

- Robert Byrne

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Rose Kennedy

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

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"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

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Rainbow Rowell

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- A.A. Milne

"Shine like the whole universe is yours."

- Rumi

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

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

- Bill Gates

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

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

- Ariana Huffington

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

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

- Maggie Kuhn

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Earl Nightingale

"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

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

- Mark Twain

"Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Ruth Gordo

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"Believing you are unworthy of love and belonging—that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong—is deadly. Who you are is beautiful and amazing."

- Laverne Cox

"When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, "What are you gonna do about it?" I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me."

- Beyonce

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

- Leonard I. Sweet

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive."

- Matt Cameron

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Dolly Parton

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nikki Giovanni

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Alexander the Great

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

- Vivian Greene

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

- Anais Nin

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

- Frank Herbert

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Jim Rohn

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Helen Keller

"Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can."

- Vince Lombardi

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Les Brown

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- John Wooden

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- William James

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Wayne Dyer

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

"The key to life when things get tough is to just keep moving. Just keep moving."

- Tyler Perry

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

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

- Helen Keller

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

- Charles Kettering

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Les Brown

"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Bill Bradley

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

- Jim Rohn

"Every strike brings me closer to a home run."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Epicurus

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Clayton M. Christensen

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Nora Ephron

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Winston Churchill

"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.

"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

"No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself."

- Madonna

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

- Walt Disney

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

- Joseph Campbell

"If you don’t know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."

- Nicholas Murray Butler

"Bravery is acknowledging your fear and doing it anyway."

- Cheryl Strayed

"There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks."

- Albert Einstein

"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day. After all, a movement is only people moving."

- Gloria Steinem

"Running water never grows stale. So you just have to keep on flowing."

- Bruce Lee

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Amy March

"Things are always different than what they might be. If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything."

- Henry James

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

- Charles F. Kettering

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious effort."

- Henry David Thoreau

"It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success."

- John D. Rockefeller, Sr

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

- Rick Riordan

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

- Sigmund Freud

"Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference."

- Nolan Bushnell

"I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

"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

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics, whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not."

- John F. Kennedy

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Dolly Parton

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"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

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

- Olivia Newton John

"Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard."

- Serena Williams

"Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible."

- Henry Ford

"You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Walt Disney

"If something stands between you and your success, move it."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

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

- Carol Burnett

"Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals."

- Jameela Jamil

"I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them."

- Sir Edmund Hillary

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

- Arthur Ashe

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"People respond well to those that are sure of what they want."

- Anna Wintour

"Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference."

- Steve Jobs

"Fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success."

- Michael Jordan

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for."

- Oscar Wilde

"I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can."

- Oliver Sacks

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition aspired, and success achieved."

- Helen Keller

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Aristotle

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Roxane Gay

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Og Mandino

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Beyoncé

"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We need to take risks. We need to go broke. We need to prove them wrong, simply by not giving up."

- Awkwafina

"Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell."

- Amal Clooney

"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

"The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

- William James

"Your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have. What you are will show in what you do."

- Thomas Davidson

"You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."

- Amy Poehler

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

"So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible."

- Norton Juster

"It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

- Paulo Coelho

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

- Agatha Christie

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Rosa Parks

"All serious daring starts from within."

- Eudora Welty

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Michael Altshuler

"If you own this story you get to write the ending."

- Brené Brown

"With each passing day, I didn’t lose hope. I fought to have more."

- Amy Tan

"We need not wait to see what others do."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Andy Warhol

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

- André Gide

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

- Maya Angelou

"One must be something to do something."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- George Eliot

"It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."

- Miles Davis

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."

- Henri Bergson

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Will Rogers

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

- Arnold Bennett

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

- John Barrymore

"Do anything, but let it produce joy."

- Walt Whitman

"How wild it was, to let it be."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

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

- Mia Hamm

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

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

- Nicole Kidman

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"

- Max Levchin

"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Danny Boyle

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

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

- William Hazlitt

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Steve Furtick

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Laird Hamilton

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"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

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Hafez

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Edmond Mbiaka

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Byron Pulsifer

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

- Catherine Pulsifer

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Warren Buffet

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

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

- Stephen Covey

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Be yourself and people will like you."

- Jeff Kinney

"Friends are the family we choose."

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Jason Fried

"A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

- Lucille Ball

"Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive."

- Jim Thompson

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

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- Brooke Shields

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Happiness is not by chance but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

"It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver."

- Betty White

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon."

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

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

- Naomi Judd

"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

"Kindness is one thing you can’t give away. It always comes back."

- George Skolsky

"My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you."

- Mavis Staples

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

"Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look."

- Jodi Picoult

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more"

- Lord Byron

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

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

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

"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."

"This too shall pass"

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

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

"“If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.”"

""If the moon can shine so bright and beautifully even in the darkest of hours , certainly, so can YOU""

"Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too."

""Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.""

""Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.""