You, My Inspiration: A Powerful Collection of Quotes to Ignite Your Spirit

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Malcolm X

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

- Ava DuVernay

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Henry Ford

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Confucius

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

- Tina Turner

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Charles Kettering

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Les Brown

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

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Audre Lorde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Viola Davis

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

- George Eliot

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Aristotle

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"Don't Just Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Mother Teresa

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Maya Angelou

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure."

- Roy T. Bennett

"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it."

- Roy T. Bennett

"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Erica Jong

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

"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

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Drew Houston

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Paul Bryant

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Bruce Lee

"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

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Jesse Owens

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Bill Walsh

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

- Ruth Gordon

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

- Paul Graham

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Childish Gambino

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Louise Hay

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

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

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Billie Jean King

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Kesha

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Stephanie Perkins

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Bob Marley

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

- Robert Brault

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- John Lennon

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

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

- John Wooden

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- William James

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Maggie Kuhn

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

- Jane Fonda

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Calvin Coolidge

"Success is 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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Walt Whitman

"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

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"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

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Roseanne Barr

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

- Epicurus

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Walt Disney

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

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

- Mark Twain

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Serena Williams

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- David Brinkley

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Bo Jackson

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

- Tobias Lütke

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- David Ogilvy

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Les Brown

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Carl Sagan

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Arlan Hamilton

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

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

- Confucius Kongzi

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

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

- Charlie Munger

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

- Tina Fey

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Joe Girard

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

- Patrick Lencioni

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Edmond Mbiaka

"Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!"

- David Dweck

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

- Byron Pulsifer

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

- Catherine Pulsifer

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

- Isabel Allende

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

- Barbara Elaine Smith

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

- Warren Buffett

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Jessica Ennis

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

- Mia Hamm

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Steven Furtick

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

- Bill Gates

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Leymah Gbowee

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

- Jay-Z

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

- Cormac McCarthy

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Maya Angelou

"Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Don Cheadle

"Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you."

- Roy T. Bennett

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

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

- Pema Chodron

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."

- Walt Disney Company

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

- Neil Gaiman

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Laird Hamilton

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Drake

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Dita von Teese

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Zendaya

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Margaret Mead

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Annette Funicello

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

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

- Halle Bailey

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

- Maria Edgeworth

"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

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

- Nicole Kidman

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Max Levchin

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Sofia Vergara

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Constance Wu

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

- Edwin Elliot

"If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is."

- Chad Sugg

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Dave Carolan

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Anne Lamott

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

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Melissa McCarthy

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

- Epictetus

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

- Edna Mode

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Jean-Francois Cope

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

- Tom Lehrer

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

- Kate Summers

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

- Nanea Hoffman

"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

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

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

- Mortimer J. Adler

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

- A. A. Milne

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

- Dorothy West

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

- Jason Fried

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

- David Hurley

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

- Lily Tomlin

"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

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

- Saul Bellow

"What's meant to be will always find a way"

- Trisha Yearwood

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

- John Guare

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn’t in submission to God!"

- T. D. Jakes

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

- Oscar Wilde

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

- George Meredith

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

- Winnie the Pooh

"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."

"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."

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

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

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

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

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

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

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

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."

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