"Dreams do not work unless you do."
- Sidney Mohede
Hard Work
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have."
- Cayla Mills
Strength
"You must tell yourself, no matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Perseverance
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."
- Atticus
Motivation
"If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it."
- Elon Musk
Courage
"The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know what you want and believe you can have it."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Belief in Self
"You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."
- Dianna Ross
Motivation
"The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up."
- Robert Tew
Perseverance
"Strength and Growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."
- Napoleon Hill
Personal Growth
"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."
- George Lorimer
Determination
"Listen to me, you’ve got this. Seriously, you’ve got this."
- Scott Stabile
Motivation
"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You gotta keep going."
- Chantal Sutherland
Belief in Self
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't – you're right."
- Henry Ford
Belief in Self
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
Success
"The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up."
- Robert Tew
Strength
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
- Oprah Winfrey
Ambition
"Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished."
- Neil Gaiman
Persistence
"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Oprah Winfrey
Personal Growth
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
- Julie Andrews
Perseverance
"Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about."
- Winston Churchill
Determination
"How long should you try? Until."
- Jim Rohn
Determination
"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
Belief in Self
"There is no armor like perseverance."
- Sogyal Rinpoche
Perseverance
"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Oprah Winfrey
Personal Growth
"The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don’t."
- Zig Ziglar
Taking Risks
"There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want."
- Tim Ferriss
Motivation
"Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are."
- Karen Marie Moning
Resilience
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
- Khalil Gibran
Faith
"Every task, goal, race and year comes to an end…therefore, make it a habit to finish strong."
- Gary Ryan Blair
Persistence
"Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths."
- Drew Barrymore
Adversity
"One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart."
- Linda Poindexter
Resilience
"Strivers achieve what dreamers believe."
- Usher
Achievement
"Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun."
- Amit Kalantri
Persistence
"I’ll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don’t, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that’s nowhere land."
- Gary Busey
Ambition
"In darkness, you only need to see just as far as you headlights extend. As long as you keep going, it is enough."
- Alexandra Bracken
Perseverance
"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."
- Robin Sharma
Success
"Starting is not most people’s problem, staying, continuing and finishing is."
- Darren Hardy
Persistence
"Remember no matter how fast you run, you can’t be the winner if you don’t finish."
- Israelmore Ayivor
Persistence
"Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged."
- Tennessee Williams
Resilience
"Behind every successful man, there's a lot of unsuccessful years."
- Bob Brown
Perseverance
"I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past."
- Atticus
Resilience
"Remember, no matter how fast you run, you can't be the winner if you don't finish."
- Israelmore Ayivor
Persistence
"One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart."
- Linda Poindexter
Resilience
"Every task, goal, race, and year comes to an end... therefore, make it a habit to finish strong."
- Gary Ryan Blair
Persistence
"Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it's those hours that make us what we are."
- Karen Marie Moning
Resilience
"The first time you quit, it’s hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don’t even have to think about it."
- Bear Bryant
Persistence
"Life will try its hardest to pull you back to the toxic norm… But don’t give up on the person you’re becoming."
- Steve Maraboli
Perseverance
"Never allow a struggle to turn your sky into a ceiling. You must believe there's always a way."
- Kristen Butler
Hope
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
- James Joyce
Learning from Mistakes
"The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet."
- Nikos Kazantzakis
Resilience
"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
Courage
"I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
- Brian Tracy
Motivation
"Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it."
- Michael J. Fox
Awareness
"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Failure
"Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life."
- Angelina Jolie
Learning
"If you have a great idea, let nothing stop you from bringing it to life."
- Pooja Agnihotri
Motivation
"My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road."
- Beatrice Wood
Learning from Mistakes
"If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day, it usually is."
- Catherine Pulsifier
Positivity
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."
- Charles Spurgeon
Perseverance
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
- Muhammad Ali
Motivation
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
- Sophia Loren
Learning from Mistakes
"It is never too late to be who you might have been."
- George Eliot
Transformation
"No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it."
- Kevin Hart
Personal Growth
"You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you."
- Maxwell Maltz
Self-esteem
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."
- Nikki Giovanni
Learning from Mistakes
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
- Helen Keller
Optimism
"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."
- Joe Girard
Success
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."
- Zig Ziglar
Motivation
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."
- Michael Jordan
Teamwork
"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
- Vince Lombardi
Teamwork
"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
Teamwork
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
- Henry Ford
Teamwork
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."
- Helen Keller
Teamwork
"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."
- Dalai Lama
Positivity
"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."
- Chris Grosser
Optimism
"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Family
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
- George Eliot
New Beginnings
"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."
- Les Brown
Self-esteem
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
- Stephen R. Covey
Belief in Self
"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."
- John Wooden
Hard Work
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Determination
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
- William James
Change
"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."
- Lucille Ball
Reflection
"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
Taking Risks
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."
- Marcus Aurelius
Gratitude
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."
- Wayne Dyer
Motivation
"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
Motivation
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
- Zig Ziglar
Service
"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."
- Pablo Picasso
Motivation
"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
Determination
"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."
- Isabel Allende
Creativity
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"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
Empowerment
"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
Creativity
"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."
- Bo Jackson
Goals
"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."
- Mia Hamm
Success
"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
Empowerment
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
- Albert Einstein
Balance
""My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.""
- Maya Angelou
Motivation
"to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
- Anaïs Nin
Courage
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Vision
"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
Change
"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
- Vince Lombardi
Success
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."
- Walt Disney
Determination
"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
Courage
"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
Personal Growth
"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
Liberation
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Courage
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."
- Maya Angelou
Courage
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."
- Napoleon Hill
Determination
"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."
- Jim Rohn
Motivation
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey
Creativity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
""You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.""
- Wayne Gretzky
Taking Risks
""What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.""
- Zig Ziglar
Personal Growth
""If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.""
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Determination
""Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.""
- William James
Inspiration
""Be the change that you wish to see in the world.""
- Mahatma Gandhi
Change
""Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.""
- Madam C.J. Walker
Ambition
""Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.""
- Thomas Edison
Hard Work
""The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.""
- Amelia Earhart
Determination
""I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.""
- Jimmy Dean
Adaptation
""It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.""
- Queen Elizabeth II
Change
""If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.""
- Muhammad Ali
Belief in Self
""Believe you can and you're halfway there.""
- Theodore Roosevelt
Belief in Self
""We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.""
- Marie Curie
Belief in Self
""The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.""
- Steve Jobs
Ambition
""Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'""
- Audrey Hepburn
Belief in Self
""Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.""
- Helen Keller
Courage
""Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.""
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Self-confidence
""You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.""
- C.S. Lewis
Aspirations
""When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.""
- Carol Burnett
Aspirations
""Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.""
- Malala Yousafzai
Aspirations
""All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.""
- Walt Disney
Aspirations
""Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.""
- Henry David Thoreau
Ambition
""All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.""
- Viola Davis
Aspirations
""Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal.""
- Naomi Osaka
Aspirations
""Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.""
- Norman Vincent Peale
Aspirations
""There is nothing impossible to they who will try.""
- Alexander the Great
Belief in Self
""Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.""
- Winston Churchill
Perseverance
""Champions keep playing until they get it right.""
- Billie Jean King
Determination
""We will fail when we fail to try.""
- Rosa Parks
Perseverance
""A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.""
- Albert Einstein
Learning from Mistakes
""Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.""
- Oprah Winfrey
Adaptation
""It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.""
- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
Perseverance
""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
Perseverance
""It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.""
- William James
Motivation
""Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference.""
- Winston Churchill
Motivation
""Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.""
- Willie Nelson
Positivity
""Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.""
- Mary Lou Retton
Optimism
""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
Positivity
""Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.""
- Anne Frank
Hope
""Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.""
- Olivia Newton-John
Facing Fears
""You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.""
- A.A. Milne
Belief in Self
""You must do the things you think you cannot do.""
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage
""When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear.""
- Elaine Welteroth
Aspirations
""Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions.""
- The Dalai Lama
Happiness
""Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.""
- Jim Rohn
Happiness
""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
Hard Work
""I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.""
- Esteé Lauder
Hard Work
""Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud.""
- Maya Angelou
Compassion
""If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.""
- Booker T. Washington
Compassion
""Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.""
- Albert Einstein
Balance
""Tough times never last, but tough people do.""
- Robert H. Schuller
Resilience
""One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.""
- Michelle Obama
Self-confidence
""You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.""
- Oprah Winfrey
Self-confidence
""It is never too late to be what you might have been.""
- George Eliot
New Beginnings
""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
New Beginnings
""Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you.""
- Walt Whitman
Optimism
""There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.""
- Amanda Gorman
Courage
""It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.""
- Aristotle
Hope
""Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.""
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
Inspiration
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
- Arianna Huffington
Personal Growth
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."
- Erica Jong
Taking Risks
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
- Henry Ford
Failure
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius
Resilience
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer
Inspiration
"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
- Bill Gates
Learning from Mistakes
"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
Motivation
"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
Learning from Mistakes
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
- Henry Ford
Courage
"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
- Wayne Dyer
Inner Peace
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe
Motivation
"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."
- Ross Simmonds
Hard Work
"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."
- George Addair
Facing Fears
"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."
- Ayn Rand
Ambition
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
- Babe Ruth
Perseverance
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."
- Thomas Edison
Resilience
"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."
- Drew Houston
Motivation
"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."
- Drake
Balance
"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."
- Laird Hamilton
Self-awareness
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Success
"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."
- Paul Bryant
Success
"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
Mindfulness
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."
- Earl Nightingale
Aspirations
"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."
- Mark Twain
Personal Growth
"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."
- Bruce Lee
Awareness
"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
Persistence
"The best way out is always through."
- Robert Frost
Resilience
"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
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity
"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
Leadership
"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."
- Ruth Gordo
Courage
"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
Time Management
"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Choice
"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."
- Cormac McCarthy
Hope
"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."
- Dr. Seuss
New Beginnings
"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
- Jane Goodall
Compassion
"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."
- Louise Hay
Personal Growth
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
Originality
"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."
- Sonia Sotomayor
Empowerment
"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."
- Jennifer Lopez
Self-awareness
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."
- Mia Hamm
Taking Risks
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition
"To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people."
- Charles T. Munger
Responsibility
"Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together."
- Elizabeth Taylor
Empowerment
"Impossible is just an opinion."
- Paulo Coelho
Belief in Self
""The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.""
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Belief
""The secret of getting ahead is getting started.""
- Mark Twain
Motivation
"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."
- Kurt Vonnegut
Awareness
"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."
- Steve Furtick
Self-awareness
""If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.""
- Mark Cuban
Positivity
""Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.""
- Mae Jemison
Belief in Self
""Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.""
- Deep Roy
Positivity
"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."
- Thomas Aquinas
Taking Risks
""I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine.""
- André Leon Talley
Belief in Self
"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."
- Don Cheadle
Self-awareness
"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."
- Leymah Gbowee
Courage
""We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.""
- Ronald Reagan
Compassion
"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."
- Childish Gambino
Taking Risks
""I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.""
- Herman Melville
Courage
""It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.""
- Queen Elizabeth II
Compassion
""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
Self-confidence
"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."
- Jay-Z
Resilience
""You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you.""
- Lupita Nyong'o
Compassion
""You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.""
- Mandy Hale
Self-care
""It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.""
- Lewis Carroll
Personal Growth
""The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.""
- Charles Dickens
Courage
""It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts.""
- Ella Fitzgerald
Personal Growth
"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
Compassion
""Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.""
- Nicole Kidman
Adaptation
""You do not find the happy life. You make it.""
- Camilla Eyring Kimball
Happiness
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
""Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.""
- Lindsey Vonn
Change
""Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.""
- John Barrymore
Happiness
""The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.""
- Mother Theresa
Happiness
""Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.""
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Contribution
""The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.""
- S. Ajna
Hope
"You carry the passport to your own happiness."
- Diane Von Furstenberg
Happiness
""Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.""
- Hafez
Joy
"Ideation without execution is delusion."
- Robin Sharma
Creativity
""No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.""
- Demi Lovato
Hope
""You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box.""
- Meghan Markle
Self-awareness
"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."
- Maria Edgeworth
Presence
"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."
- Raymond Joseph Teller
Creativity
""Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.""
- Shinzo Abe
Resilience
""I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.""
- Cicely Tyson
Resilience
""Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.""
- Truman Capote
Failure
""The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.""
- Michael Altshuler
Time Management
"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."
- Pema Chodron
Reflection
""What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.""
- Bob Dylan
Success
""The best revenge is massive success.""
- Frank Sinatra
Success
""If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.""
- Mikhail Gorbachev
Personal Growth
""In the long run, you make your own luck — good, bad, or indifferent.""
- Loretta Lynn
Belief in Self
""Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.""
- Henry Ford
Perseverance
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
- John Barrymore
Reflection
"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."
- David Hurley
Respect
"Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves."
- Terence McKenna
Awareness
"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
Motivation
""Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you.""
- Gabrielle Union
Hard Work
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
- Benjamin Franklin
Perseverance
"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."
- Jessica Ennis
Belief in Self
"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."
- Patrick Lencioni
Teamwork
""We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person.""
- Anne Heche
Love
""Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.""
- Dr. Seuss
Reflection
"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."
- Barbara Elaine Smith
Persistence
""The most wasted of days is one without laughter.""
- E.E. Cummings
Happiness
"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
- Warren Buffet
Generosity
"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
- Anne Lamott
Joy
""A dead-end street is a good place to turn around.""
- Naomi Judd
New Beginnings
"I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition."
- Jean-Francois Cope
Teamwork
""My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'""
- James Caan
Awareness
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."
- A. A. Milne
Contentment
"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."
- Mark Cuban
Positivity
"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."
- Jason Fried
Contentment
"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"
- David Dweck
New Beginnings
""Limit your ' always' and your ' nevers.'""
- Amy Poehler
Moderation
"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."
- Dave Carolan
Positivity
"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
Happiness
"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
Balance
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
- Mortimer J. Adler
Self-improvement
"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."
- Constance Wu
Self-awareness
""Be kind to unkind people. They need it most.""
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Compassion
""I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.""
- Lily Tomlin
Self-awareness
""For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them.""
- Grace Kelly
Contentment
"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."
- Dita Von Teese
Self-awareness
""You get what you give.""
- Jennifer Lopez
Contribution
"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."
- Edna Mode
Presence
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
Self-awareness
"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."
- Nanea Hoffman
Happiness
"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
- Tom Lehrer
Reflection
"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leadership
"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"
- Kate Summers
Happiness
"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
Happiness
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
- Winnie the Pooh
Positivity
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."
- Oscar Wilde
Creativity
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Leadership
"A year from now you will wish you had started today."
Future
"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."
Success
"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."
Resilience
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."
Taking Risks
"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."
Self-awareness
"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
Awareness