Inspiring Work Quotes to Fuel Your Ambition

"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work."

- Joseph Barbara

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."

- Alan Wilson Watts

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind."

- Irish Proverb

"Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."

- Gary Ryan Blair

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Lou Holtz

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

- A.C. Benson

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

- Frida Kahlo

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Everything is hard before it is easy."

- Goethe

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you."

- Mark Cuban

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

- Thomas Edison

"No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become “Successful.”"

- Jaymin Shah

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

- 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."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Brad Sugars

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Komal Kapoor

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Marie Forleo

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

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Dr. Dorothy Height

"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

"If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Winston Churchill

"You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you."

- Tony Morgan

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

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

- Shiv Khera

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Debby Boone

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

- Confucius

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Billie Jean King

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

- Napoleon Hill

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

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

- Ali Krieger

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

- Paulo Coelho

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Norton Juster

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

- Thomas Edison

"Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

- Neil Gaiman

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Nicki Minaj

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

- Salvador Dali

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

- Colin Powell

"Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships."

- Michael Jordan

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

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

- Peter Drucker

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Milton Berle

"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

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Muhammad Ali

"I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

- Maya Angelou

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not."

- Mary Shelley

"The sun himself is weak when he first rises and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

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

- Stephen Covey

"Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything."

- Patrick Suskind

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

- Kylie Francis

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Zig Ziglar

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you."

- Fred DeVito

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

- Brian Herbert

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

- Sam Levenson

"What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning."

- Colin Powell

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

- George Addair

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."

- M. Scott Peck

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

- Helen Keller

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Will Rogers

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

- G.K. Nielson

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

- Denis Waitley

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."

- Brian Tracy

"Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor."

- Brian Tracy

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Pirates of the Caribbean

"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now."

- Margaret Fuller

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

"As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning."

- Margaret Heffernan

"If you don’t pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."

- David Allen

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

- Chanakya

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."

- Olin Miller

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Derek Jeter

"I can and I will. Watch me."

- Carrie Green

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Estee Lauder

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

- William James

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferris

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

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

- Truman Capote

"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

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

- Gabby Douglas

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Dreams don’t work unless you do."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Carol Burnett

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

- John F Kennedy

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

- Stephen King

"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

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

- Seneca

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

- Henry Ford

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work."

- Jonathan Sack

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

- Vidal Sassoon

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

- Aristotle

"If you can’t fly, then run; if you can’t run, then walk; if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Maya Angelou

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be."

- Rosalynn Carter

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

- George Lucas

"Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy."

- Robert Hall

"It’s not about money or connection — it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone."

- Mark Cuban

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is hard work."

- Stephen King

"Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Jack Welch

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Ryunosuke Satoro

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

- Brian Tracy

"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work—and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."

- Lucille Ball

"Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done."

- Robin S. Sharma

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

- Simon Sinek

"Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity and meaning in their job."

- Scott and Kelly Blanchard

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

- Eraldo Banovac

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

- Mary Kay Ash

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

- Albert Einstein

"Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that."

- Herb Kelleher

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Bob Nelson

"A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."

- Douglas MacArthur

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

- Bob Nelson

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Komil Toume

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

- Ari Weinzweig

"Employees aren't just workers, they're the backbone of business and that makes them more important than the boss any day of the week. Good Employees = Good Business."

- Kilroy J. Oldster

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."

- Stephen Hawking

"Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, ‘I must keep going.’ It’s that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, ‘Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.’"

- Cory Booker

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

- Herman Melville

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

- Maya Angelou

"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."

- Steve Jobs

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

"What’s dangerous is not to evolve."

- Jeff Bezos

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Maya Angelou

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Henry Ford

"A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B.F. Skinner

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

- Winston Churchill

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

- Morihei Ueshiba

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?"

- Karen Salmansohn

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Louis Pasteur

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn."

- Helen Keller

"It’s always too soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying."

- John C. Maxwell

"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 give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"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

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Failure is not the opposite of success: it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Napoleon Hill

"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

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Henry Ford

"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

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

- Trina Paulus

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

- Maya Angelou

"Self-esteem comes from achieving something important when it’s hard to do."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Challenges are what makes life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible."

- Robert Schuller

"If plan ‘A’ doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan."

- Claire Cook

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

- Dolly Parton

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Zig Ziglar

"It’s always the hard part that creates value."

- Seth Godin

"Success is my only option, failure’s not."

- Eminem

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

- Stephen King

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John Rockefeller

"If you hear a voice within you, say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means, paint, and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Be so good they can’t ignore you."

- Steve Martin

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Dhirubhai Ambani

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."

- William Durant

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts."

- Larry Ellison

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

- Biz Stone

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

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

- Leah Busque

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

- Michele Ruiz

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

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Impossible is just an opinion."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Isabelle Lafleche

"Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary."

- Ross Simmonds

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The hard days are what make you stronger."

- Aly Raisman

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

- William Patten

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

- Steve Jobs

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Aristotle

"If you are not where you want to be, do not quit. Instead reinvent yourself and change your habits."

- Eric Thomas

"Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live."

- Anne Sweeney

"Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities."

- Sophia Amoruso

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Nelson Mandela

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Tony Robbins

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

"How wonderful is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be."

- Zig Ziglar

"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."

- Steve Jobs

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

- John C. Maxwell

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."

- Napoleon Hill

"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

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

- Alice Walker

"Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room."

- Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

"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 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

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

- Estée Lauder

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Aristotle

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion."

- Simon Sinek

"Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience."

- Michelle Obama

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

- William Arthur Ward

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

- Melody Beattie

"The root of joy is gratefulness . . . It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful."

- David Steindl-Rast

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"It’s our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J. K. Rowling

"Luck is preparation meeting opportunity."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Confucius

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

"You have the power on your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

- President John Quincy Adams

"To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Work harder on you than everyone else and you will become unusually successful."

- Dani Johnson

"There’s no abiding success without commitment."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"Don’t justify your dreams, execute on them."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"If something’s important enough, you should try."

- Elon Musk

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Ayn Rand

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not."

- Elon Musk

"I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."

- Jeff Bezos

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"ACT. Actions kills procrastination and creates momentum to keep yourself motivated to keep moving ahead."

- Dani Johnson

"Becoming is better than being."

- Carol Dweck

"We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality time we put in."

- Arianna Huffington

"It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen."

- Scott Belsky

"If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!"

- T. Harv Eker

"At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure."

- Erin Cummings

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

- Harriet Stowe

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways."

- Robert Greene

"You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be."

- Marianne Williamson

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny."

- Og Mandino

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them."

- Ann Landers

"If you dwell on the past or future, you will miss the moment."

- Rumi

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

- Winston Churchill

"To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself."

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

- Farrah Gray

"Self – trust is the first secret to success."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Rumi

"only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich."

- Jim Carrey

"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O’Brien

"Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t."

- Gertrude B. Elion

"Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

- Thomas Jefferson

"I wouldn’t be where I am now if I didn’t fail… a lot. The good, the bad, it’s all part of the success equation."

- Mark Cuban

"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."

- Antos Parrish

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

- Jim Rohn

"There will always be hurdles in life, but if you want to achieve a goal, you must continue."

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more."

- Maya Angelou

"I break chains all by myself / Won’t let my freedom rot in hell / Hey! I’ma keep running / ‘Cause a winner don't quit on themselves"

- Beyoncé

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

- Confucius

"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

- Dale Carnegie

"Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions."

- Albert Einstein

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

"Do not let anyone ever tell you who you are."

- Kamala Harris

"What I’ve realized is that confidence is a daily journey. We always think that confidence is a destination we must get to, but it’s a choice we make. I don’t think it’s something we ever really get to and stay at. And I think once you know that, it takes the pressure off."

- Jonathan Van Ness

"There will be people who say to you, ‘You are out of your lane.’ They are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what can be. But don’t you let that burden you."

- Kamala Harris

"Failure it appears is not the regret that haunts most people; it is the choice not to risk failure at all."

- Dr. John Izzo

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say."

- Barbara McClintock

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"Trust yourself. You probably know more than you think you do… Trust that you can learn anything."

- Melinda French Gates

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"Whether I fail or succeed, it’s the going for it."

- Jonathan Van Ness

"I dream it / I work hard / I grind ’til I own it"

- Beyoncé

"Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

- Joyce Brothers

"People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you’re succeeding. People do not get scared when you’re failing. It calms them. But when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them."

- Mindy Kaling

"Before I started, I decided that I’d only pursue this career if my self-worth was dependent on more than celebrity success."

- Beyoncé

"I just love it when people say I can’t do it, there’s nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it."

- Ted Turner

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

- Farrah Gray Rogers

"Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first."

- Anna Quindlen

"Owning up to your vulnerabilities is a form of strength."

- Lizzo

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

- Joseph Campbell

"The reality is: Sometimes you lose. And you’re never too good to lose. You’re never too big to lose. You’re never too smart to lose. It happens. And it happens when it needs to happen. And you need to embrace those things."

- Beyoncé

"There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

"And how do you know when you’re doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you’re supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better."

- Melinda French Gates

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Self-care is really rooted in self-preservation, just like self-love is rooted in honesty. We have to start being more honest with what we need, and what we deserve, and start serving that to ourselves. It can be a spa day! But for a lot of people, it's more like, I need a mentor. I need someone to talk to. I need to see someone who looks like me that's successful, that's doing the things that I want to do, to know that it's possible."

- Lizzo

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

- Ayn Rand

"Woo girl, need to kick off your shoes / Got to take a deep breath, time to focus on you"

- Lizzo

"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."

- Doris Day

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

- G.K. Chesterton

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

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

- Jimmy Johnson

"The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it."

- Michael Josephson

"Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."

- Voltaire

"As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success."

- Tamara Taylor

"Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe."

- Sumner Redstone

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts."

- Madeleine L’Engle

"I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape."

- Charles Dickens

"Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Ignorance is always afraid of change."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."

- Sammy Davis Jr

"I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down."

- Abraham Lincoln

"If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."

- Anita Roddick

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

- Babe Ruth

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly."

- Bear Grylls

"Don’t waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come."

- Mario Quintana

"Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy."

- Stephen Covey

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

- Henry Ford

"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."

- Mark Twain

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend first four sharpening the axe."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Courage is like a muscle – we strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordon

"How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top."

- Yvon Chouinard

"Someday is not a day of the week."

- Janet Dailey

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

- Confucius

"There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither."

- Alan Cohen

"Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest."

- Leo Babauta

"Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life."

- Cheryl Strayed

"The best way to improve your self-control is to see how and why you lose control."

- Kelly McGonigal

"Someone, at some point, came up with this very bad idea that an ordinary individual couldn’t make a difference in the world. I think that’s just a horrible thing."

- John Skoll

"We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things."

- Herb Kelleher

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible."

- Miguel De Unamuno

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there."

- Joyce Chapman

"Nothing becomes dynamic until it becomes specific."

- Dani Johnson

"Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make."

- Corita Kent

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Forget the past and live in the present hour."

- Sarah Knowles Bolton

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity."

- Mitch Kapor

"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Florence Nightingale

"I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it’s going to work or whether I’m going to fall flat on my face."

- Johnny Depp

"A boat doesn’t go forward if each one is rowing their own way."

- Proverb

"When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?"

- Sydney Harris

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you."

- Stephen Covey

"The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions."

- James Russell Lowell

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."

- Nelson Henderson

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Saint Francis

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

- George Edward Woodberry

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

- George M. Moore Jr.

"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 looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- David Brinkley

"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

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

- Haile Gebrselassie

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

- Ingrid Bergman

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

- Tony Robbins

"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

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"A river cuts through a rock not because of its power but its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Socrates

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

- Kevin Kruse

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones."

- John Cage

"The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing."

- Barry Werner

"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."

- Angela Duckworth

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

- Harry S. Truman

"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day."

- Will Durant

"The only thing you have control over is your attitude."

- Viktor Frankl

"You can make a positive impact on the world when you maintain your equanimity, resilience, recovery, and renewal as strong and positive."

- Amit Ray

"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward."

- Isabel Allende

"If plan “A” doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan."

- Claire Cook

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

- Vivian Greene

"Resiliency is something you do, more than something you have. . . You become highly resilient by continuously learning your best way of being yourself in your circumstance."

- Al Siebert

"It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. . . Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

- Hans Selye

"When nobody fails, everybody loses. Feedback and resilience are vital."

- Alan Froggatt

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"Somewhere out there is a unique place for you to help others – a unique life role for you to fill that only you can fill."

- Thomas Kinkade

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."

- Confucius

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Zig Ziglar

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."

- Henry Ford

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Work hard and be kind and amazing things will happen."

- Conan O’Brien

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

- Tim Notke

"Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all."

- Sam Ewing

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

- Richard Branson

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

- Frank Ocean

"Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any."

- Danielle Fotopoulis

"Always deliver more than expected."

- Larry Page

"You can do anything, but not everything. Prioritize better."

- David Allen

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

"If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"If you look for perfection, you will never be content."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Sydney Harris

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

- Rumi

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

- Brandon Sanderson

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Pamela Stroko

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

- J. Paul Getty

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

- Margaret Carty

"Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Mark Twain

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

- William Feather

"Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Karen Lamb

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

- Lloyd Dobens

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

- Emily Voyles

"A single leaf working alone provides no shade."

- Chuck Page

"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

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"Not knowing you can’t do something is sometimes all it takes to do it."

- Ally Carter

"Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Arnold Glasow

"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow."

- Denis Waitley

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

- Albert Einstein

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."

- Dr. Steve Maraboli

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

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

- Tracy Streckenbach

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

- Meghan M. Biro

"Your goal should be just out of reach. But not out of sight."

- Remi Witt

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

- Stanley McChrystal

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Angela Ahrendts

"Failure defeats losers, but it inspires winners."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

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

- Fred Allen

"You are not your resume, you are your work."

- Seth Godin

"A minute’s success pays the failure of years."

- Robert Browning

"Don’t think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success."

- Robert Orben

"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."

- Harvey Mackay

"If a mind thinks with a believing attitude, one can do amazing things."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Hasidic Proverb

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."

- Meister Eckhart

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

- Jag Randhawa

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

- Max DePree

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

- Nathaniel Branden

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

- Thomas Foxwell Buxton

"Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo."

- Jon Sinclair

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

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

- Dalai Lama

"Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is. Prioritize yourself by making a habit of it."

- Andrena Sawyer

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

"We will either find a way or make one."

- Hannibal

"Let nothing happen, just for a bit, let the minutes toll in the stunning air, let us lie on our beds like astronauts, hurtling through space and time."

- Olivia Laing

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

- Richard Bach

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

- Toni Morrison

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards."

- Søren Kierkegaard

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

- Warren Buffet

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

- Arthur Christopher Benson

"I’m a survivor / I’m not gonna give up / I’m not gonna stop / I’m gonna work harder"

- Destiny’s Child

"Only when we're drowning do we understand how fierce our feet can kick."

- Amanda Gorman

"There does come a moment when you start saying, ‘I want more,’ and people look at you a little cross-eyed, because it’s loving what you have and also knowing you want to try for more. Sometimes that makes people uncomfortable."

- Ariana DeBose

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."

- Banksy

"She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements."

- Alice Munro

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

- Vincent van Gogh

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Don’t trust any one story of how to become successful."

- Mindy Kaling

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- Peter Dinklage

"You can get what you want or you can just get old."

- Billy Joel

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day."

- A.A. Milne

"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it."

- Tricia Cunningham

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Chinese proverb

"Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’"

- Richard Carlson

"Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect."

- Luther Campbell

"You always have two choices — your commitment versus your fear."

- Sammy Davis Jr.

"To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."

- Eva Young

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Winston Churchill

"Criticism is the best sign you’re onto something."

- Michael Lopp

"If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get."

- Frank A. Clark

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Think of many things, do one."

- Portuguese proverb

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

- Mario Andretti

"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

"We are really competing against ourselves. We have no control over how other people perform."

- Pete Cashmore

"I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it."

- Johnny Depp

"Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me."

- Michael Scott

"If you have time to whine, then you have time to find a solution."

- Dee Dee Artner

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

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

- Mark Twain

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

- Walt Disney

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

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

"What defines us is how well we rise after falling."

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

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

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

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

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

"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction."

"I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes."

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

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

"Make your fear of losing your greatest motivator."

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

"When the pain of an obstacle is too great, challenge yourself to be stronger."

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

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

"One day or day one. You decide."

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

"Stop waiting. The time will never be perfect. Things will always pop up. The best time to start is always now."

"Whenever you feel like a failure, just remember that even Coca Cola only sold 25 bottles their first year."

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

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

"Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits."

"You’re so much stronger than your excuses."

"Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do."

"You never know which people, places, and experiences are going to shift your perspective until after you've left them behind and had some time to look back."

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

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

"Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later."

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

"Forget your excuses. You either want it bad or don’t want it at all."

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

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

"Practice makes progress not perfect."