This collection represents some of the most inspiring and influential motivational quotes throughout history. Use these words of wisdom to fuel your journey toward success, happiness, and personal growth.
Words have the power to transform lives, shift perspectives, and ignite the spark of greatness within us. This carefully curated collection brings together 500 of the most powerful and influential motivational quotes from history’s greatest minds, leaders, and visionaries.
From ancient philosophers like Aristotle and Confucius to modern-day innovators like Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey, these quotes represent timeless wisdom that has inspired millions of people to overcome challenges, pursue their dreams, and achieve extraordinary success.
Why These Quotes Matter
Each quote in this collection has been selected for its ability to:
- Inspire Action: Transform doubt into determination and fear into courage
- Provide Clarity: Offer fresh perspectives on life’s challenges and opportunities
- Build Resilience: Strengthen your mental fortitude during difficult times
- Spark Innovation: Encourage creative thinking and breakthrough ideas
- Foster Growth: Guide personal and professional development
How to Use This Collection
Whether you’re seeking daily inspiration, preparing a speech, writing a book, or simply need a motivational boost, these quotes serve as powerful tools for transformation. Consider bookmarking specific quotes that resonate with your current situation, sharing them with others who might benefit, or using them as daily affirmations to reinforce positive thinking patterns.
The Authors Behind the Wisdom
This collection features quotes from diverse voices across centuries and cultures, including world leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists, spiritual teachers, and everyday heroes who have left their mark on humanity. Their combined wisdom offers a comprehensive guide to living a meaningful, successful, and fulfilling life.
Remember: The true power of these quotes lies not just in reading them, but in applying their wisdom to your daily life. Let these words be the catalyst for your own extraordinary journey.
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Tony Robbins
- “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “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
- “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” – Unknown
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
- “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
- “Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic entrepreneur.” – Mohnish Pabrai
- “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?” – Brian Tracy
- “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
- “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck
- “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington
- “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
- “Teach thy tongue to say, ‘I do not know,’ and thous shalt progress.” – Maimonides
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
- “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
- “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
- “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
- “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” – Aristotle
- “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” – Latin Proverb
- “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” – Unknown
- “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
- “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
- “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” – Erica Jong
- “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
- “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese Proverb
- “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
- “A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.” – Unknown
- “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
- “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren
- “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
- “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.” – Jesse Owens
- “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser
- “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
- “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” – Teddy Roosevelt
- “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins
- “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
- “It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” – Mae Jemison
- “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
- “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
- “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!'” – Audrey Hepburn
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.” – Jesus
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck
- “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington
- “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
- “Teach thy tongue to say, ‘I do not know,’ and thous shalt progress.” – Maimonides
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
- “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
- “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
- “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
- “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
- “You have been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved.” – Mel Robbins
- “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “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
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” – Steve Jobs
- “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” – Madonna
- “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.” – Jane Smiley
- “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” – Marc Anthony
- “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale
- “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” – Maya Angelou
- “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing! That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “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
- “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “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
- “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” – Unknown
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
- “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
- “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; what would it look like?” – Brian Tracy
- “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
- “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
- “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck
- “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington
- “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
- “Teach thy tongue to say, ‘I do not know,’ and thous shalt progress.” – Maimonides
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
- “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
- “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
- “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
- “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” – Aristotle
- “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” – Latin Proverb
- “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” – Unknown
- “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
- “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
- “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” – Erica Jong
- “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
- “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese Proverb
- “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
- “A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.” – Unknown
- “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
- “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren
- “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
- “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.” – Jesse Owens
- “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser
- “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
- “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” – Teddy Roosevelt
- “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins
- “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
- “It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” – Mae Jemison
- “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
- “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
- “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!'” – Audrey Hepburn
- “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.” – Jesus
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
- “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
- “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
- “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
- “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
- “You have been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved.” – Mel Robbins
- “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “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
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” – Steve Jobs
- “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” – Madonna
- “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.” – Jane Smiley
- “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” – Marc Anthony
- “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale
- “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” – Maya Angelou
- “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing! That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal
- “Great things never come from comfort zones.” – Anonymous
- “Dream it. Wish it. Do it.” – Anonymous
- “Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.” – Anonymous
- “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Anonymous
- “Dream bigger. Do bigger.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – Anonymous
- “Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.” – Anonymous
- “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Anonymous
- “Little things make big days.” – Anonymous
- “It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.” – Anonymous
- “Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.” – Anonymous
- “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.” – Anonymous
- “Dream it. Believe it. Build it.” – Anonymous
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
- “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
- “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
- “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
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
- “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
- “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
- “Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.” – Jesus
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck
- “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington
- “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
- “Teach thy tongue to say, ‘I do not know,’ and thous shalt progress.” – Maimonides
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
- “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
- “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
- “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
- “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
- “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg
- “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” – Aristotle
- “If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” – Latin Proverb
- “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” – Unknown
- “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
- “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
- “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” – Erica Jong
- “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
- “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese Proverb
- “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
- “You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
- “A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.” – Unknown
- “It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
- “If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren
- “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray
- “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.” – Jesse Owens
- “Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser
- “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
- “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” – Teddy Roosevelt
- “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins
- “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
- “It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” – Mae Jemison
- “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills
- “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
- “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
- “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!'” – Audrey Hepburn
- “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.” – Jesus
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
- “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
- “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
- “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy
- “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Helen Keller
- “You have been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved.” – Mel Robbins
- “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “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
- “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” – Steve Jobs
- “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” – Madonna
- “In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it.” – Jane Smiley
- “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” – Marc Anthony
- “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale
- “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” – Maya Angelou
- “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing! That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it – teach yourself to be impatient.” – Gurbaksh Chahal
- “Great things never come from comfort zones.” – Anonymous
- “Dream it. Wish it. Do it.” – Anonymous
- “Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.” – Anonymous
- “The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Anonymous
- “Dream bigger. Do bigger.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – Anonymous
- “Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.” – Anonymous
- “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Anonymous
- “Little things make big days.” – Anonymous
- “It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.” – Anonymous
- “Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.” – Anonymous
- “The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.” – Anonymous
- “Dream it. Believe it. Build it.” – Anonymous
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
- “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
- “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
- “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
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
- “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
- “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
- “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone
- “Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.” – Kevin Kruse
- “We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism.” – Kevin Kruse
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
- “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb
- “An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates
- “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
- “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso
- “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
- “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
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
- “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
- “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck
- “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington
- “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
- “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
- “Teach thy tongue to say, ‘I do not know,’ and thous shalt progress.” – Maimonides
- “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
- “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” – Bernard M. Baruch
- “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss
- “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
- “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” – J.K. Rowling
- “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend.” – Albert Camus
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson
- “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
- “Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde
- “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.” – Andre Gide
- “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bill Keane
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
- “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare
- “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda
- “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel
- “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
- “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” – Charles de Gaulle
- “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.” – Garrison Keillor
- “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy
- “Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey
- “Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” – Gordon A. Eadie
- “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” – Terry Pratchett
- “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” – George Carlin
- “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” – George Carlin
- “Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.” – Fannie Hurst
- “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.” – Douglas Adams
- “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” – Ayn Rand
- “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” – Dale Carnegie
- “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein
- “We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.” – W. H. Auden
- “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
- “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
- “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein
- “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein
- “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
- “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
- “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs
- “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
- “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.” – Steve Jobs
