100+ Very Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Passion and Drive

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

- Estée Lauder

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Confucius

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

"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 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 one who'll decide where to go..."

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Thomas Edison

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- George Addair

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

"Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Confucius

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Winston Churchill

"Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done."

- David Goggins

"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

"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

"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."

- Pope Benedict XVI

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

- Milton Berle

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can’t go wrong. The world is behind you."

- Josephine Baker

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

- Aristotle

"Don’t let what you don’t know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you’re guaranteed to do them differently."

- Sara Blakely

"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life."

- Robin S. Sharma

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond."

- Marcel Proust

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Roseanne Barr

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

- Shirley Chisholm

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"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

"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

"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

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

"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

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

- Confucius Kongzi

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

- David Brinkley

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

- Sun Tzu

"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world."

- Archimedes

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

- Alexander the Great

"Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure. And if you don’t risk failure, you’re never going to do anything that’s different from what you’ve already done or what somebody else has done."

- Charlie Kaufman

"I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change."

- Reese Witherspoon

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."

- David Bowie

"If you can’t fail, you can never get better."

- Benedict Cumberbatch

"The best protection any woman can have … is courage."

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."

- Galileo Galilei

"If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach."

- Steve Wozniak

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

- G.K. Chesterton

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

"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

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough"

- Lionel Messi

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston S. Churchill

"What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner."

- James Dyson

"Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?"

- Caroline Myss

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

- Dale Carnegie

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Mark Cuban

"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all."

- Michelangelo

"If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do."

- Jude Law

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

- Amy March

"Freedom lies in being bold."

- Robert Frost

"If you focus on results you’ll never change. If you focus on change, you’ll get results."

- Jack Dixon

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple."

- Jack Dorsey

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

- George Addair

"Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you…. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way."

- Tim Ferriss

"Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

- George Clooney

"Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it."

- Ted Williams

"There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return."

- Nelson Mandela

"No failure means no risk, which means nothing new"

- Richard Branson

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

- Helen Keller

"I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish."

- Daniel Day-Lewis

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose."

- Pele

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

"The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible"

- Mike Horn

"Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice."

- Terry Crews

"Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."

- Brian Tracy

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world."

- Oscar Wilde

"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."

- Michael Jordan

"Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day."

- Ray Lewis

"Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical."

- Howard Schultz

"I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know."

- Harlan Sanders

"You can and should set your own limits and clearly articulate them. This takes courage, but it is also liberating and empowering, and often earns you new respect."

- Rosalind Brewer

"Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin."

- Grace Hansen

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."

- Hank Aaron

"Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you’re a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life."

- Tyler Perry

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

- Bill Gates

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

"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 worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

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

- Drake

"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

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Bruce Lee

"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

"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

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

- Ruth Gordo

"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

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Dr. Seuss

"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

"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

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Bruce Lee

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"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

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"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

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."

- Bill Keane

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

- Elie Wiesel

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Helen Keller

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

- Shel Silverstein

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

- Paulo Coelho

"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

"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do."

- John Holt

"The biggest temptation is to settle for too little."

- Thomas Merton

"Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off."

- Kevin Hart

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

- James Clear

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you do every job like you’re going to do it for the rest of your life, that’s when you get noticed."

- Mary Barra

"I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true — hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it."

- Ray Bradbury

"The things that scare you only make you better and stronger."

- Octavia Spencer

"The first step is clearly defining what it is you’re after, because without knowing that, you’ll never get it."

- Halle Berry

"Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."

- Tony Robbins

"I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps … I’m the first Simone Biles."

- Simone Biles

"Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."

- Doug Larson

"Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out."

- Randall Munroe

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

- Judy Garland

"The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves."

- Swami Vivekananda

"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Fear of looking stupid is the No. 1 killer of dreams. The worst part? The people who make you feel stupid are usually the ones least qualified to judge someone else’s life."

- Anthony Moore

"I’ve grown most not from victories but from setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us."

- Serena Williams

"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."

- Charles Swindoll

"I’ll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done."

- Audie Murphy

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."

- Araminta Ross (later known as Harriet Tubman)

"Reality is created by the mind; we can change our reality by changing our mind."

- Plato

"Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life."

- Cesar Chavez

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Dalai Lama

"We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that."

- David Goggins

"The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive, and passion, it’s possible to achieve the American dream."

- Tommy Hilfiger

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

- Beyoncé

"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

- Conan O’Brien

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

- St. Augustine

"If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like."

- Steph Curry

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

- William Blake

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."

- Sylvester Stallone

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

"People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life."

- Carrie Ann Moss

"Spread love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Live your beliefs, and you can turn the world around."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action."

- Dr. Henry Link

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you'll reach your goal. And if that takes a few years, then that's great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that's part of the process."

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don't be afraid. Because you're going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don't be afraid."

- Joan Jett

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

- Awkwafina

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

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"We all have problems. But it's not what happens to us, [it's] the choices we make after."

- Elizabeth Smart

"You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances and certainly not by your race or gender."

- Mariah Carey

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness."

- Selena Gomez

"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

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

- Muhammad Ali

"We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We've gotta listen more and talk less. We've gotta know that this is everybody's responsibility."

- Meghan Rapinoe

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards."

- Bear Bryant

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

- Buddha

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

- Francis of Assisi

"Put your heart, mind and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret to success."

- Swami Sivananda

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Shoot for the Moon, and if you miss, you will still be among the stars."

- Les Brown

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass!"

- Paul J. Meyer

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."

- Jack Dempsey

"What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time."

- Don Zimmer

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Walt Disney

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up."

- Vince Lombardi

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"If you can change your mind, you can change your life."

- William James

"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

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."

- Albert Einstein

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

- George Lorimer

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further."

- Thomas Carlyle

"To see what is right and not do is a lack of courage."

- Confucius

"The only limits you have are the limits you believe."

- Wayne Dyer

"Don't count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

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

- Zig Ziglar

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

"When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream."

- Paulo Coelho

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Walt Whitman

"Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Leaders set high standards, refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance."

- Brian Tracy

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela

"Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality."

- Brian Tracy

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

- George Addair

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

- Jules Renard

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- George O'Keeffe

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and be greater than our suffering."

- Ben Okri

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

- Tony Robbins

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Milton Berle

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"Change the world by being yourself."

- Amy Poehler

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

- Confucius

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Fatigue will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

- Aldous Huxley

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

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

- Gale Sayers

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Alexander the Great

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"Opportunity does not knock; it presents itself when you beat down the door."

- Kyle Chandler

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

- H.G. Wells

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"You will never win if you never begin."

- Helen Rowland

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

"Quality is not an act; it is a habit."

- Aristotle

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

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

- St. Jerome

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

- Samuel Beckett

"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."

- Wayne Dyer

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

- W.B. Yeats

"Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one."

- Ronald McNair

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."

- bell hooks

"Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage"

- Matt Damon

"Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn."

- Satya Nadella

"The chief cause of failure is substituting what you want most for what you want now."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity."

- Nicole Kidman

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Gautama Buddha

"An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you."

- Indra Nooyi

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere."

- Ovid

"A lot of times, people look at the negative side of what they feel they can’t do. I always look on the positive side of what I can do."

- Chuck Norris

"I tend to think you’re fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."

- Christian Bale

"Success … is built on the foundation of courage, hard work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears."

- Susana Martinez

"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life — and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O’Keeffe

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

- African Proverb

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for."

- Jimmy Stewart

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work."

- Margot Robbie

"When we are no longer able to change a situation — we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love."

- Carl Sagan

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

- Willie Nelson

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass

"Anything in life worth having is worth working for."

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Leo Tolstoy

"Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask."

- Kate Winslet

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

"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

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- George Eliot

"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

"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

"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

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"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

"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

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

- Bo Jackson

"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

"To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts."

- Roger Ebert

"If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling."

- Vince Gilligan

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

- Peter Drucker

"Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth."

- Mike Tyson

"Business is built on relationships, relationships are built on trust, and the foundation of trust is honesty."

- Various

"It seems to me that to be peaceful and content, you don’t have to know precisely what you want. It may even be better if you don’t. But I think you do need to be very clear what you DON’T want, and steadfast in the not-doing of those things."

- Sandra Boynton

"Before you speak, run this through your head: Is what I’m about to say true? Is it helpful? Is it inspiring? Is it necessary? Is it kind? If you cannot answer yes to these questions, then don’t say it, don’t tweet it, don’t write it."

- Beret Guidera

"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

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

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

- Jennifer Lopez

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Leo Buscaglia

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes."

- Sally Field

"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment."

- Arthur Helps

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

"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

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

- Anne Dillard

"There is no list of rules. There is one rule. The rule is: There are no rules."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"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

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."

- Dr. Phil

"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on."

- Lady Gaga

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

- Edna Mode

"If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you, and it will be extremely clear what the next step is."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

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

- Mandy Hale

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

- Martin Luther

"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

"This is not just a job. This is a passion. Connecting people, connecting the world, making a difference. How many jobs can say I made the world better today? We do that every single day."

- Ed Bastian

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

- Michael Altshuler

"We’re born alone. We do need each other. It’s lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to, that’s part of your obligation."

- Bill Murray

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

- Oscar Wilde

"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

"I tell myself, 'You've been through so much, you've endured so much, time will allow me to heal and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete and mother I am today.'"

- Serena Williams

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

- Warren Buffett

"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me"

- Diego Maradona

"You are never too good for anything. Always be willing to do everything."

- Thomas Parkinson

"Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody’s job and don’t just settle."

- Michael B. Jordan

"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl

"Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures."

- Joelle Speranza

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

- Epictetus

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you."

- Beyoncé

"I just want you to know that if you are out there and you are being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened...it's normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please."

- Taylor Swift

"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

"If you look around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room."

- Lorne Michaels

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

- Bruce Springsteen

"Change the game, don't let the game change you."

- Macklemore

"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

- Margaret Fuller

"The moral of my story is the Sun always comes out after the storm. Being optimistic and surrounding yourself with positive, loving people is, for me, living life on the sunny side of the street."

- Janice Dean

"Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul."

- Sir Terry Waite

"For every reason it's not impossible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

- Jack Canfield

"It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t."

- Ricky Gervais

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."

- W. E. B. Du Bois

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

- Thomas Paine

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"I've noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I'm grateful in the end."

- Colleen Hoover

"You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works."

- Pope Francis

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you’re praying."

- Mason Cooley

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'"

- Sydney J. Harris

"I’m a big believer in the power of inexperience. It was the greatest asset I had when I started TFA. If I had known at the outset how hard it was going to be, I might never have started."

- Wendy Kopp

"So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."

- Caterina Fake

"We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can't put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?"

- Jennifer Lopez

"Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky."

- Valentina Tereshkova

"I hate that word: lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work."

- Peter Dinklage

"Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet"

- Dr. Dre

"All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that’s why it takes so long."

- Steven Spielberg

"You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them."

- Keira Knightley

"Your messaging should convey, ‘Here’s why you would be so lucky if you got me,’ instead of ‘I really wanted it,’ which we all tend to do."

- Barbara Corcoran

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."

- Michael Porter

"All medicine is like that. It came from someone who dared."

- Dr. William DeVries

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back."

- Herb Kelleher

"I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Will Arnett

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."

- William Morris

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

- Nicole Kidman

"The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."

- Eric Ries

"God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try."

- Mother Teresa

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from."

- Seth Godin

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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

- Alice Walker

"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself."

- Meryl Streep

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

- Richard Bach

"[T]he world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape."

- Bono

"We are not our best intentions. We are what we do."

- Amy Dickinson

"I'm realizing how much I've diminished my own power. I'm not doing that no more."

- Alicia Keys

"Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."

- Richard L. Evans

"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts."

- Sylvester Stalone

"Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace."

- Robert Goddard

"If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

- Cormac McCarthy

"Forget about style; worry about results."

- Bobby Orr

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

- Amy Poehler

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"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

"We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless."

- Lech Walesa

"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

"I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals."

- Brad Pitt

"It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you’d better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call."

- Jyoti Arora

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

- Thomas Huxley

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

- Henry C. Link

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

- Plutarch

"My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain."

- Charlie Chaplin

"An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better."

- Clayton Christensen

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Ross Simmonds

"I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I’m not saying I’m particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it."

- Kenny G

"When one door closes, sometimes we need to turn the knob to open another."

- J.A. Tran

"When we choose to trust the journey and embrace love and joy, we are free to fly."

- Annicken R. Day

"It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart."

- Al Pacino

"There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate, when a particular course of action just feels right. And, interestingly, I’ve discovered it’s in facing life’s most important decisions that intuition seems the most indispensable."

- Tim Cook

"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws?"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"There is no security on the Earth, there is only opportunity."

- Douglas MacArthur

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success."

- Kevin Kline

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

- Lao Tzu

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong."

- Leo Buscaglia

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking."

- General George S. Patton

"Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like."

- Brian Chesky

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

- Toni Morrison

"Don’t write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what’s in your heart."

- Quentin Tarantino

"Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."

- Nathaniel Branden

"You can’t be afraid of what people are going to say, because you’re never going to make everyone happy."

- Selena Gomez

"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."

- Diana Ross

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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

- Edith Wharton

"When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue."

- Josh James

"I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine."

- Neil Armstrong

"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."

- Brad Meltzer

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."

- Stephen Sondheim

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Melissa McCarthy

"Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

"I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these 10 or 20 lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words."

- Joseph Pulitzer

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."

- Eckhart Tolle

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

- Madonna

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

- Joe Girard

"It’s beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it’s well deserved."

- Jennifer Lawrence

"We have to let go of who we think we should be and embrace what is."

- Achea Redd

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

- Sir Francis Bacon

"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

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow."

- Aeschylus

"I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential."

- Nicki Minaj

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

- Dita Von Teese

"Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more."

- Aretha Franklin

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

- Mark Cuban

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."

- Gustave Flaubert

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

- Don Cheadle

"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."

- C.S. Lewis

"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

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

"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

"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

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

- Salvador Dali

"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly."

- Louis Mann

"The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift."

- L. A. Villafane

"You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs."

- Ruben Dario

"Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people."

- Joe Frazier

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

- Rudyard Kipling

"If God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it!"

- Eleanor Hodgman Porter

"I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent."

- Colin Firth

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

- Cheryl Strayed

"Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken."

- Myrtle Aydelotte

"Let love rule."

- Lenny Kravitz

"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends."

- Lyndon Johnson

"Work hard, know your s—t, show your s—t and then feel entitled."

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Nanea Hoffman

"If all I do in my life is soothe someone’s spirit with a song , then let me do that and I’m happy."

- Gladys Knight

"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

- Isaac Asimov

"God works a miracle!"

- William Bradford

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"It was the first evidence to me that we’d changed the world."

- John Shepherd-Barron

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light."

- Vera Nazarian

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King

"What gets celebrated gets replicated."

- Bradley Cooper

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

- Danny Boyle

"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

- John F. Kennedy

"Waking up in truth is so much better than living in a lie."

- Idris Elba

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent."

- Bob Dylan

"Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten — it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging."

- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

"Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want."

- Jason Sudeikis

"Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for."

- James Taylor

"It’s a gift to exist, and with existence comes suffering. There’s no escaping that."

- Stephen Colbert

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad."

- Shigeru Miyamoto

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

- Euripides

"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Dave Carolan

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- William Bruce Cameron

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end."

- Gilda Radner

"Too low they build, who build beneath the stars."

- Edward Young

"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."

- Danny DeVito

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

- H.G. Wells

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there."

- George Harrison

"Think about me every now and then, old friend."

- John Lennon

"It isn’t hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day."

- Willie Mays

"Sometimes you can only find heaven by slowly backing away from hell."

- Carrie Fisher

"I have captured the light and arrested its flight. The sun itself shall draw my pictures."

- Louis Daguerre

"It’s a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers."

- Michael Che

"May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"It was the ultimate dream. But the idea of a young black American like me owning a Cadillac? It seemed too far-fetched."

- Dick Gidron

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times."

- Mark Twain

"You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows."

- Matt Drudge

"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

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is an 80 percent friend, not a 20 percent enemy."

- President Reagan

"I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me."

- Eddie Vedder

"The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people."

- Stephen Hawking

"It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant."

- Katarina Witt

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

"If you’re ever thinking, Oh, but I’m a waste of space and I’m a burden, remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don’t you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?"

- Maria Bamford

"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

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

- Lily Tomlin

"Get into what your kids are into. How miserable would it be to always be anti-popular stuff like ‘ughhhh you seriously like Taylor Swift?'"

- Joel Willis

"If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert."

- Paulo Coelho

"Not everything needs to to be A level work. Sometimes C work is enough."

- my mom

"Happiness is an inside job."

- Anonymous

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

- Buddah

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

"There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking."

"Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are."

"Life is short, and the world is wide."

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got."

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

"Perfect is the enemy of good enough."

"Perfection is the enemy of progress."

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

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

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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

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

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"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."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

"You are exactly where you decided to be."