Inspiring Winning Quotes: A Powerful Collection to Motivate Your Success

"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

"Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live."

- Joe Montana

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win."

- Alexandra Monir

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Winston Churchill

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

- Vince Lombardi

"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do."

- Denis Waitley

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

- Estée Lauder

"Winners are just people who have gone through failure and have responded better than the rest."

- Aaron Gordon

"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it."

- Vince Lombardi

"The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."

- Bobby Knight

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Dale Carnegie

"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

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

- Vince Lombardi

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Winston Churchill

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Bill Bradley

"I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot."

- Kobe Bryant

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and, most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard."

- Tim Notke

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Babe Ruth

""A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.""

- Nelson Mandela

"For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream."

- Jacques Plante

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

- Confucius

"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday."

- Wilma Rudolph

"Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts."

- Kobe Bryant

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

""Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.""

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Michael Jordan

"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

"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

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Thomas Edison

"Winning is more than beating others; it’s about surpassing your own limits and constantly pushing yourself."

- Michael Jordan

""You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.""

- Zig Ziglar

"You can do anything you set your mind to."

- Eminem

""Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.""

- Pele

"The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Stephen R. Covey

""Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.""

- William James

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory."

- Les Brown

"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

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- William James

"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

"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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win."

- Ted Turner

""Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.""

- Carol Burnett

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

- Buddha

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

- Gandhi

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

"Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise."

- Frank Ocean

"Dream beautiful dreams, and then work to make those dreams come true."

- Spencer W. Kimball

"Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there."

- Dr. Wayne D. Dyer

"If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs."

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."

- Helen Keller

""Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams.""

- Brad Sugars

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that’s where you will find success."

- Thomas J. Watson

"Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up."

- Gabby Douglas

"There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning."

- Roy T. Bennett

"I can and I will. Watch me."

- Carrie Green

"Opportunities don’t happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

""Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It’s about preparation, courage, understanding, nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.""

- Joe Torre

"I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it."

- Estee Lauder

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

- Pablo Picasso

""Losers quit when they fail. Winners fail until they succeed.""

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"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

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want."

- Ken Poirot

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

- Judy Garland

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I never lose. Either I win or learn."

- Nelson Mandela

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

- Richard Branson

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

""You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so … get on your way!""

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Confucius

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

""The key to success is to start before you are ready.""

- Marie Forleo

""If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real.""

- Tony Robbins

""Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.""

- Shiv Khera

"Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is."

- Anne Frank

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

- Bo Jackson

""Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you, ‘Wrong way. Turn around.’""

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win."

- Les Brown

""Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.""

- Winston Churchill

"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

""It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all―in which case, you fail by default.""

- J.K. Rowling

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

""Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.""

- John F. Kennedy

"When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters―one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

- John F. Kennedy

"Every fight is a must-win because we are winners."

- Shawn Porter

"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating."

- Denis Waitley

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

- Leo Tolstoy

"Amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work."

- Stephen King

"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

"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

"Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive."

- Leah LaBelle

"If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it."

- Elon Musk

"Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen."

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

""Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.""

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

""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

"Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners."

- Joe Gibbs

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"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

"Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep."

- Denis Waitley

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

""Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality.""

- Bruce Lee

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business."

- Richard Branson

"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."

- Brian Tracy

"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

"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

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore."

- Michele Ruiz

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

- Maya Angelou

"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."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Les Brown

""A goal is a dream with a deadline.""

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Maya Angelou

""I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.""

- Estée Lauder

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Viola Davis

""Quitters never win. Winners never quit!""

- Dr. Irene C. Kassorla

""What’s on the other side of fear? Nothing.""

- Jamie Foxx

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

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Henry Ford

""The best revenge is massive success.""

- Frank Sinatra

"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

""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

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

- Paulo Coelho

"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

"I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of."

- Jimmy Connors

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Henry Ford

"If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose."

- Derek Jeter

"I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games."

- Tony Dungy

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

- Confucius

"Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself."

- Roger Staubach

""Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.""

- Tony Robbins

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

- Vivian Greene

"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

"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second."

- Paul Bryant

""Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.""

- William Arthur Ward

""You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.""

- Barack Obama

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

- George Addair

""Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.""

- Farrah Gray

"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't win unless you learn how to lose."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better."

- Yogi Berra

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

- William W. Purkey

""Failure is the tuition you pay for success.""

- Walter Brunell

"You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday."

- Jason Mraz

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting it is."

- Arnold Palmer

""You may be disappointed if you fail, but you’ll be doomed if you don’t try.""

- Beverly Sills

"I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation."

- Andy Murray

"The person that said winning isn't everything, never won anything."

- Mia Hamm

"Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result."

- Joe Torre

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

- Nelson Mandela

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

"If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"We play a sport. It's a game. At the end of the day, that's all it is, is a game. It doesn't make you any better or any worse than anybody else. So by winning a game, you're no better. By losing a game, you're no worse. I think by keeping that mentality, it really keeps things in perspective for me to treat everybody the same."

- Tim Tebow

"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game."

- Grantland Rice

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

""The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.""

- Socrates

"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

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

- Tony Robbins

"Trust yourself that you can do it and get it."

- Baz Luhrmann

"You never know what you can do until you try."

- William Cobbett

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

- Thomas Edison

"I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself."

- Albert Einstein

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going."

- Chantal Sutherland

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

- Jordan Belfort

""Don’t give up, don’t take anything personally, and don’t take no for an answer.""

- Sophia Amoruso

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."

- Grace Hopper

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do."

- Marianne Williamson

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- George Lorimer

""You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.""

- Maya Angelou

"I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play."

- Boris Becker

"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

"A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning."

- Pat Riley

"It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first."

- Jackie Robinson

"You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going."

- Morgan Wootten

""Action is the foundational key to all success.""

- Pablo Picasso

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

- Richard Nixon

""Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.""

- Dwayne Johnson

"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose."

- G.K. Nielson

"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next."

- George Steinbrenner

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

- Billie Jean King

"There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you."

- Derek Jeter

""A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.""

- Billie Jean King

""Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.""

- Phillip Sweet

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

- Walt Disney

""Motivation comes from working on things we care about.""

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Winners don't believe in fate like others do. They simply cannot accept defeat."

- David Silva

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Henry Ford

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

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

- Confucius

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Michael Jordan

"The true measure of winning is the positive impact you have on others and the difference you make in the world."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Success is not determined by the absence of challenges but by the ability to overcome them."

- John C. Maxwell

"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

"Winning is not an event, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"Success is not about being the best; it’s about becoming your best."

- Mike Ditka

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Michael Jordan

"The path to success is paved with determination, resilience, and a willingness to learn from failures."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Jane Goodall

"Winning is not a one-time event, but a consistent state of mindset and action."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Dalai Lama

"Victory is not found in the absence of defeat, but in the ability to rise after each fall."

- Serena Williams

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Chris Grosser

"Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before."

- Bonnie Blair

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

- Les Brown

"Success is not the destination, but the relentless pursuit of growth and improvement."

- Simon Sinek

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Epicurus

"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

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Patrick Lencioni

"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

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- John Wooden

"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

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

- Lucille Ball

"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

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- Mia Hamm

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Ross Simmonds

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Aristotle

"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

"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

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

- Audre Lorde

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Anne Frank

"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

"No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink."

- Bill Parcells

"All I cared about in tennis was winning."

- Pete Sampras

"Winning solves everything."

- Tiger Woods

"The secret to winning is constant, consistent management."

- Tom Landry

"I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win."

- Tom Brady

"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

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Lewis Carroll

"Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers."

- Socrates

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be."

- Benjamin Hardy

"If you’re too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track."

- Susan Fales-Hill

"It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been."

- George Eliot

"Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did."

- Mark Twain

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

- Rumi

"What is life without a little risk?"

- J.K. Rowling

"Only do what your heart tells you."

- Princess Diana

"Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

- Harper Lee

"Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."

- The Lion King

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

- Ferris Bueller

"I always thought it was me against the world, and then one day I realized it’s just me against me."

- Kendrick Lamar

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Sam Levenson

"It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."

- Jenny Craig

"Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die."

- Brian Vaszily

""You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.""

- Jim Rohn

""You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.""

- Ali Krieger

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"I 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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Jennifer Lopez

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Viktor Frankl

"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

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

- Joseph Campbell

"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

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

- Robert Byrne

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

- Rose Kennedy

"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

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

- Jimmy Johnson

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Confucius

"The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything."

- Warren Buffett

"It’s my life. It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever. I just want to live while I’m alive."

- Bon Jovi

"I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me."

- Taylor Swift

"On my own I will just create, and if it works, it works. And if it doesn’t, I’ll just create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be."

- Oprah Winfrey

"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Janis Joplin

"When something I can’t control happens, I ask myself: Where is the hidden gift? Where is the positive in this?"

- Sara Blakely

"I was smart enough to go through any door that opened."

- Joan Rivers

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters."

- Epictetus

""I want to be remembered as the one who tried.""

- Dr. Dorothy Height

""It’s not about having enough time, it’s about making enough time.""

- Rachael Bermingham

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

- Albert Einstein

""The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.""

- Brian Herbert

""The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.""

- Mike Murdock

""Motivation may be what starts you off, but it’s habit that keeps you going back for more.""

- Miya Yamanouchi

"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

"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

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

- Buddha

"Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character."

- John Wooden

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Dolly Parton

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Herman Melville

"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

"Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."

- Knute Rockne

"Losing feels worse than winning feels good."

- Vin Scully

"At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence."

- Arsene Wenger

"Imagination has a great deal to do with winning."

- Mike Krzyzewski

"When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball."

- Carmelo Anthony

"The critics are always right. The only way you shut them up is by winning."

- Chuck Noll

"I'm a mad dog whose only concern is winning."

- Charles Barkley

"I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary -- the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going."

- Malcolm Gets

"I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing."

- Lindsey Vonn

"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."

- Babe Ruth

"Only the paranoid survive."

- Andy Grove

"I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’"

- Leah Busque

"Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it. Sauté it. Whatever. MAKE."

- Joss Whedon

"If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day, it usually is."

- Catherine Pulsifier

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

- Isabelle Lafleche

"If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive."

- Kenneth Goldsmith

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted."

- Christine Caine

"Good. Better. Best. Never let it rest. ’Til your good is better and your better is best."

- St. Jerome

"You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours."

- Herb Brooks

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Buddha

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferris

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

- Helen Keller

"The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything."

- Frank Sinatra

"There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"No one has ever made a difference by being like everyone else."

- The Greatest Showman

"The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem."

- Pirates of the Caribbean

"Remember you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine."

- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

"You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to."

- Good Will Hunting

"Spend a little more time trying to do something with yourself and a little less time trying to impress people."

- The Breakfast Club

"Just because it burns doesn’t mean you’re gonna die. You’ve gotta get up and try."

- Pink

"Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten."

- Natasha Bedingfield, "Unwritten," Unwritten

"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."

- Bruce Lee

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

- Dr. Seuss

""It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life.""

- Joyce Meyers

""You’re already a financial trader. You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you’re trading your time for money. Frankly, it’s just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can’t get more time.""

- Tony Robbins

""Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.""

- Jim Rohn

""If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough.""

- David A. Bednar

""If you can’t make a mistake you can’t make anything.""

- Marva Collin

""If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.""

- Lemony Snicket

""Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.""

- Mandy Hale

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

- Maya Angelou

""Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.""

- Debby Boone

""Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.""

- Bill Gates

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

- Robin Williams

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

""Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.""

- Will Rogers

""Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.""

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Helen Keller

""The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before.""

- Albert Einstein

""Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.""

- Roy T. Bennett

""One thing’s for sure, if you don’t play, you don’t win.""

- Kylie Francis

""When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do.""

- Nicki Minaj

""The trouble is, you think you have time.""

- Buddha

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

- George Eliot

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

- Shirley Chisholm

"We’re on the brink of adventure, children. Don’t spoil it with questions."

- Mary Poppins

"If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete."

- Jack Welch

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

- David Hurley

""Some women choose to follow men, and some women 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

""Be an encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.""

- Roy T. Bennett

""Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.""

- Jen Sincero

""How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to release time: breathe.""

- Matt Haig

"Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much."

- Steve Nash

""Time is money.""

- Benjamin Franklin

"Begin anywhere."

- John Cage

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

- Melissa McCarthy

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

- Katharine Hepburn

"What hurts you blesses you."

- Rumi

""To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.""

- Chinese Proverb

""Everything is hard before it is easy.""

- Goethe

""At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.""

- Frida Kahlo

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

- Will Rogers

""The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.""

- Mark Twain

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

- Steven Furtick

"Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose."

- George Meredith

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Mandy Hale

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

""You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.""

- Dave Ramsey

"It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

""Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for 10 years.""

- Warren Buffett

"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

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- Mark Twain

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Reba McEntire

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

- Danny Boyle

"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

""If there is no wind, row.""

- Latin Proverb

"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

""Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.""

- William Faulkner

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

- Lao Tzu

""Time is what we want most and what we use worst.""

- William Penn

"When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less."

- Paul Brown

""Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.""

- William Shakespeare

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Annette Funicello

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Zendaya

"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

"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

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Pema Chodron

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Robert Frost

"Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit."

- Kamari, a.k.a. Lyrikal

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Wealth isn’t about having a lot of money, it’s about having a lot of options."

- Chris Rock

"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

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

- Confucius Kongzi

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

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

- Edwin Elliot

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

- Roseanne Barr

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

- Laird Hamilton

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

""Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at the right time, it is also about taking actions at the right time.""

- Amit Kalantri

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Steve Furtick

"Every day women and men become legends."

- Common

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

- Mark Twain

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners."

- Jeff Bezos

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"I just wanna let them know that they didn’t break me."

- Pretty in Pink

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

- Warren Buffet

""Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.""

- Jim Henson

"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

"She remembered who she was and the game changed."

- Lalah Delia

""A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.""

- George R.R. Martin

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

- Mario Andretti

"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

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

- Carl Sagan

"The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday."

- Art Rooney

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

- Jay-Z

"Everyone loves a winner. That's just how the world is. And Ayrton Senna was one of the greatest winners this sport has ever had."

- Lewis Hamilton

""Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.""

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Arianna Huffington

""The greatest weapon against stress is the ability to choose one thought over another.""

- William James

"And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance … I hope you dance."

- Lee Ann Womack

""It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.""

- Hans F. Hansen

"Life’s a game made for everyone and love is the prize."

- Avicii

"It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a life for me, and I’m feeling good."

- Michael Bublé

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

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

- Leymah Gbowee

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

"What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong."

- Robin Williams

""I really appreciate people who correct me, because without them, I might have been repeating mistakes for a long time.""

- Mufti Menk

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Cormac McCarthy

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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

"Be silly, be honest, be kind."

- Anonymous

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

"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

"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."

- Criss Jami

""Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm, and genuine people.""

- Tena Desae

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

""There are two rules for success: 1. Never reveal everything you know.""

- Roger H. Lincoln

"I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse."

- The Godfather

"I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be."

- Michelle Obama

""That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.""

- Henry David Thoreau

"If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears."

- Simon Sinek

""Why do we grieve failures longer than we celebrate wins?""

- Komal Kapoor

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

- Epictetus

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

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Mother Theresa

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another."

- Yuri Kochiyama

""After all this time? Always.""

- J.K. Rowling

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Nanea Hoffman

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

""One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.""

- Stephen Hawking

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

""Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.""

- Frank Ocean

""I’m still learning.""

- Michelangelo

"Cause the grass is greener under me, bright as technicolor, I can tell that you can see."

- Demi Lovato

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Don Cheadle

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Diane Von Furstenberg

""Revenge is a powerful motivator.""

- Marcus Luttrell

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

- Lily Tomlin

"If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — you won."

- Lalah Delia

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

- Jason Fried

""It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it’s your spending habits.""

- Charles A. Jaffe

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

- Coco Chanel

"We are all winners here."

- Alfonso Ribeiro

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Dorothy West

""Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.""

- Clare Boothe Luce

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

- Stanley McChrystal

""Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.""

- George Burns

"I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up."

- Leo Durocher

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

- Winnie the Pooh

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

- Cindy Gallop

"When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners."

- Richard Carlson

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

- Oscar Wilde

""It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.""

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Kate Summers

"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

"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

"Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven."

- C. JoyBell C.

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

- A.C. Benson

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Every champion was once a contender who refused to give up."

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

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

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

"There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game."

""Never stop learning because life never stops teaching.""

""It might not be easy, but it’ll be worth it.""

""Never regret a day in your life. Good days bring you happiness and bad days give you experience.""

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

""Don’t tell people about your dreams. Show them your dreams.""

""You will never always be motivated, so you must learn to be disciplined.""

""Take the risk or lose the chance.""

"You can’t have a million-dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic."

""Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.""

""Make your fear of losing your greatest motivator.""

""Do something today that your future self will thank you for.""

""What is coming is better than what is gone.""

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

""I will not erase all my hard work this week because it’s the weekend.""

"Do the right thing even when no one is looking."

"Hold the vision, trust the process."

"Believe you can and you will."

""The greatest gift you could give someone is your time. Because when you give your time, you are giving a portion of your life you can’t get back.""

"If you think someone could use a friend. Be one."

"Make today the day you learn something new."

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

"You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours."

- Unknown

"You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing."

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

"People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable."

- Unknown

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

""Time always exposes what you mean to someone.""

""When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future.""

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

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

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

""A negative mind will never give you a positive life.""

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."