300 Encouraging Quotes to Keep You Motivated
A collection of encouraging quotes and messages from past, present, famous, and unknown authors. Stay positive and keep going!
Words of Encouragement
When it comes to finding words of encouragement and empowerment, nothing beats a good quote. Quotes can be used as motivation during challenging times, for reflection on our life journey, or as a reminder that we are capable of great things.
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." - Charles Kingsleigh
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." - Vince Lombardi
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." - Brian Tracy
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." - Christian D. Larson
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." - Walter Elliot
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - Charles R. Swindoll
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it." - Jordan Belfort
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
"It always seems impossible until it’s done." - Nelson Mandela
"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this." - Chantal Sutherland
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
"The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it." - Unknown
"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done." - Unknown
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney
Inspirational Quotes
Quotes that uplift and inspire people to overcome challenges and aim for their dreams.
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." - Charles Kingsleigh
"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
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - Les Brown
"The future depends on what you do today." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs
"The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible." - Joel Brown
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." - Albert Schweitzer
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." - Jim Rohn
"The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it." - Unknown
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart." - Roy T. Bennett
Motivational Quotes
These quotes stir up the will to act and accomplish goals.
"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." - Chris Grosser
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." - Colin R. Davis
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton
"The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do." - Unknown
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Tony Robbins
"Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion." - Tony Hsieh
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." - Robert Collier
"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference." - Unknown
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
"If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission." - Anonymous
"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." - John Wooden
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Anonymous
"Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain." - Anonymous
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - Bruce Feirstein
"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
Positivity Quotes
These help cultivate a positive mindset, focusing on the brighter side of life.
"Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." - Shiv Khera
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." - Willie Nelson
"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes." - Wade Boggs
"Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude." - Lou Holtz
"It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive." - Ellen DeGeneres
"The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want." - Chris Pine
"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive." - Matt Cameron
"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." - Patricia Neal
"I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in." - Roger Clemens
"Every day brings new choices." - Martha Beck
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude." - Scott Hamilton
"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true." - David Bailey
"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact." - Les Brown
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you." - Les Brown
"Surround yourself with positive people and situations, and avoid negativity." - Doreen Virtue
"A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it." - Joan Lunden
"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." - Joyce Meyer
"I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments." - Roger Federer
"It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient." - Daniel Kahneman
"I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it." - Catherine Zeta-Jones
"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." - Zig Ziglar
"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative." - James Baldwin
"I believe one of my strengths is my ability to keep negative thoughts out. I am an optimist." - John Wooden
"Once you choose hope, anything's possible." - Christopher Reeve
"I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors." - Joel Osteen
"When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you." - Shannon L. Alder
"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen." - Thomas Carlyle
"You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!" - Helen Steiner Rice
"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." - Winston Churchill
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." - Colin Powell
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." - William James
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." - Anthony J. D'Angelo
Self-love Quotes
These center on the importance of self-care and self-esteem.
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." - Oscar Wilde
"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself." - Steve Maraboli
"Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be." - Avril Lavigne
"You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company." - Diane Von Furstenberg
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting." - William Shakespeare
"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore." - C. JoyBell C.
"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives." - Denis Waitley
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." - C.G. Jung
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art." - Madonna
"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness." - Robert Morley
"A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life." - Andrew Matthews
"Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat." - Warsan Shire
"You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are." - Yogi Bhajan
"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses." - Bob Moawad
"You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." - Louise L. Hay
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball
"Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally." - Hannah Bronfman
"Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity." - Andre Gide
"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself." - Coco Chanel
"Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing the best you can." - Unknown
"Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause." - Akiroq Brost
"You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations." - Suzy Kassem
"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
"The first step is to come home to yourself. You don’t need to become a Buddha. You need to become yourself." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you." - Ram Dass
"We must fall in love with ourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself." - Mae West
"Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
"Self-care is never a selfish act. It is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others." - Parker Palmer
"It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It's necessary." - Mandy Hale
"You are free, you are powerful, you are good, you are love, you have value, you have a purpose. All is well." - Abraham Hicks
Courage Quotes
Quotes that embolden individuals to face fears and take risks.
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." - Mignon McLaughlin
"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." - John Wayne
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - e.e. cummings
"In the end, it is upon our actions that we are judged." - Cicero
"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage." - Thucydides
"Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair." - Rollo May
"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength." - Napoléon Bonaparte
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." - Robert Green Ingersoll
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Courage is found in unlikely places." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog." - Mark Twain
"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others." - Winston Churchill
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill
"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." - Baltasar Gracian
"Courage is a kind of salvation." - Plato
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency." - Maya Angelou
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." - Soren Kierkegaard
"Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - C. S. Lewis
"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life." - Daniel J. Boorstin
"True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher." - John Petit-Senn
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Anne Radmacher
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount." - Clare Boothe Luce
"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost
"Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." - Harper Lee
"We must have the courage to let go of the past if we are going to grasp the future." - David DeNotaris
"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen." - Brené Brown
"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity." - Seneca
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." - Billy Graham
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." - Thomas Paine
Perseverance Quotes
These promote the persistence and tenacity necessary to reach long-term objectives.
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - Henry Ford
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." - Walter Elliot
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." - Vince Lombardi
"Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock." - Anonymous
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." - Will Rogers
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." - Newt Gingrich
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." - Julie Andrews
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Confucius
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it." - Arnold H. Glasow
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." - Samuel Johnson
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher
"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence." - Jim Watkins
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher
"He who has a why can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
"Perseverance is stubbornness with a purpose." - Josh Shipp
"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The only failure is not to try." - George Clooney
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas A. Edison
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back." - Abraham Lincoln
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard
"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs." - Victor Hugo
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right." - Albert Einstein
"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur
"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time." - George M. Moore Jr.
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." - Walter Elliot
"I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance." - Steve Jobs
"Perseverance is the foundation of all actions." - Lao Tzu
"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." - Thomas Foxwell Buxton
"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin
Success Quotes
Quotes that celebrate achievements and serve as a reminder of the rewards of hard work.
"The road to success is always under construction." - Lily Tomlin
"The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra
"Success is not in what you have, but who you are." - Bo Bennett
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference." - Unknown
"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows." - Aristotle Onassis
"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure." - Aisha Tyler
"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten." - Jon Bon Jovi
"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." - Ayn Rand
"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." - John D. Rockefeller Jr.
"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it." - Oprah Winfrey
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear." - Brian Tracy
"Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence." - Colin Powell
"Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble." -Shah Rukh Khan
Change Quotes
These encourage embracement and acceptance of change as a part of life’s journey.
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." - Winston Churchill
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
"Change is inevitable. Change is constant." - Benjamin Disraeli
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein
"Things do not change; we change." - Henry David Thoreau
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya Angelou
"Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end." - Robin Sharma
"Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong." - Mandy Hale
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The only constant in life is change." - Heraclitus
"Change is the end result of all true learning." - Leo Buscaglia
"Don't be afraid of change. You may end up losing something good, but you will probably end up gaining something better." - Unknown
"To know the world, first know yourself. To change the world, first change yourself." - Anonymous
"Change before you have to." - Jack Welch
"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional." - John Maxwell
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw
"One reason people resist change is because they focus on what they have to give up, instead of what they have to gain." - Rick Godwin
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." - Jim Rohn
"Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better." - Esther Dyson
"You can't change your situation. The only thing that you can change is how you choose to deal with it." - 50 Cent
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman
"We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are." - Max Depree
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." - Gail Sheehy
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
"Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create." - Oprah Winfrey
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." - Buddha
"When you're finished changing, you're finished." - Benjamin Franklin
"Life is about change. Sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time, it's both." - Lana Lang
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." - Henry Ford
"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later." - Bob Goff
"Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late." - Seth Godin
"The 3 C’s in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the choice, to take the chance, if you want anything in life to change." - Anonymous
"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't." - Steve Maraboli
Growth Quotes
Quotes that emphasize the significance of personal and professional growth.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Growth and comfort do not coexist." - Ginni Rometty
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself." - Michael F. Staley
"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself." - Denis Waitley
"Don’t go through life, grow through life." - Eric Butterworth
"The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change." - Bill Clinton
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways." - Robert Greene
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Johnson Reagon
"Growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you've got to get around people who are going in the same direction." - Oprah Winfrey
"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional." - John Maxwell
"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong." - Mandy Hale
"Growth is the only evidence of life." - John Henry Newman
"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness." - Lao Tzu
"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't." - Frank A. Clark
"Growth outside of your comfort zone is a sign of personal evolution." - Carlos Wallace
"Personal growth becomes so addictive once you realize that it’s always possible to improve your experience of being." - Joe Duncan
"Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life." - Herbert Otto Gille
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." - Stephen Hawking
"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough." - Alain de Botton
"Growth is painful, messy and beautiful all at the same time." - Anonymous
"Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness." - Jean Vanier
"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety." - Abraham Maslow
"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together." - James Cash Penney
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." - Harvey S. Firestone
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." - Benjamin Franklin
"It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs." - Jillian Michaels
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy
"Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better." - Esther Dyson
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." - Jim Rohn
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw
"If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living." - Gail Sheehy
"Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth." - John C. Maxwell
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." - Calvin Coolidge
"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead." - Morihei Ueshiba
Gratitude Quotes
These remind people to be thankful for the many blessings in their lives.
"Gratitude turns what we have into enough." - Anonymous
"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness." - Dalai Lama
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more." - Oprah Winfrey
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Cicero
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift." - Roy T. Bennett
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
"Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions." - Zig Ziglar
"When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears." - Tony Robbins
"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." - Aesop
"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind." - Lionel Hampton
"Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone." - Gertrude Stein
"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." - Willie Nelson
"Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness." - Amy Collette
"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up." - Eckhart Tolle
"Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk." - Rumi
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life." - Melody Beattie
"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude." - Karl Barth
"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"In gratefulness, you are as close to the truth as you can get." - Kristi Nelson
"Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy." - Jefferson Bethke
"The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." - Neale Donald Walsch
"Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy." - Jacques Maritain
"Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions." - Robert Emmons
"In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day -- or to celebrate each special day." - Rasheed Ogunlaru
"Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy." - Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
"At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." - Albert Schweitzer
"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world." - John Milton
"Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes." - Sri Chinmoy
"Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty." - Doris Day
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." - William Faulkner
"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." - William Arthur Ward
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens
"Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it." - Stephen Richards
"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." - William Blake
"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." - William James
"Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation." - John Ortberg
"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse." - Henry Van Dyke
"Gratitude is the heart's memory." - French Proverb
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie
Teamwork Quotes
Quotes that express the importance of working together towards a common goal.
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." - Mattie Stepanek
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." - Phil Jackson
"It takes two flints to make a fire." - Louisa May Alcott
"Teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability." - Patrick Lencioni
"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." - Michael Jordan
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." - Henry Ford
"The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison." - James Cash Penney
"Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results." - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro
"Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success." - Ted Sundquist
"Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there." - Virginia Burden
"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless." - Mike Krzyzewski
"None of us is as smart as all of us." - Ken Blanchard
"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team." - John Wooden
"When 'I' is replaced with 'we', even 'illness' becomes 'wellness'." - Malcolm X
"A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself…to praise the skills of others." - Norman Shidle
"Teamwork makes the dream work." - Bang Gae
"A team is more than a collection of people. It is a process of give and take." - Barbara Glacel
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth
"The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better." - Tony Dungy
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." - Aristotle
"A successful team is a group of many hands but of one mind." - Bill Bethel
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Vince Lombardi
"The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team." - Lewis B. Ergen
"Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." - Stephen Covey
"One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites." - Jin Kwon
"A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other." - Simon Sinek
"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." - H.E. Luccock
"Success is best when it's shared." - Howard Schultz
"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things." - Mother Teresa
"No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team." - Reid Hoffman
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." - Phil Jackson
"Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds." - SEAL Team Saying
"Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people." - Steve Jobs
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." - Helen Keller
Strength Quotes
Quotes that revolve around the power within, and the importance of believing in oneself.
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have." - Bob Marley
"Don’t wish me happiness - I don’t expect to be happy it’s gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Strength is not measured in muscle, but in will." - Margaret M. Morrow
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle." - Napoleon Hill
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway
"Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty." - Diane Von Furstenberg
"Strength and courage aren't always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome." - Brett Favre
"Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy." - Felicia Hemans
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran
"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind." - John Beecher
"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home." - Confucius
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius
"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength." - Napoléon Bonaparte
"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions." - Louisa May Alcott
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities." - Stephen R. Covey
"What does not kill me makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." - Maya Angelou
"A strong person is not the one who doesn't cry. A strong person is the one who cries and sheds tears for a moment, then gets up and fights again." - Unknown
"Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences." - Jenny Trout
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." - Thomas Paine
"Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you." - Unknown
"The task ahead of you is never greater than the strength within you." - Unknown
"Strength is the product of struggle. You must do what others don't to achieve what others won't." - Henry Rollins
"Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." - Rikki Rogers
"Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, 'Get the hell out of my way, I've got things to do.'" - Unknown
"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." - Nick Vujicic
"Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength." - Chris Bradford
"The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!" - Anne Frank
"Strength isn’t about how much you can handle before you break, it’s about how much you can endure after you’ve been broken." - Unknown
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't." - Thomas Edison
"Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces." - Judith Viorst
"Strength is life, weakness is death." - Swami Vivekananda
"Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths." - Drew Barrymore
Passion Quotes
Quotes that emphasize the rewards of taking action on one’s passions.
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." - Oprah Winfrey
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"Passion is the genesis of genius." - Tony Robbins
"One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested." - E. M. Forster
"Chase your passion, not your pension." - Denis Waitley
"Without passion, you don't have energy, without energy you have nothing." - Warren Buffet
"Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures." - Joseph Campbell
"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost
"Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams." - Donovan Bailey
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
"The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling." - Fabienne Fredrickson
"Passion is the difference between having a job or having a career." - Anonymous
"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not." - Deepak Chopra
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." - Benjamin Franklin
"The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion." - Terry Orlick
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." - Vincent van Gogh
"A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means." - William Hazlitt
"Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost." - Proverb
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman
"Passion is so key in leading and creating excellence that I will hire passion over education and talent every time." - Dave Ramsey
"Purpose may point you in the right direction but it’s passion that propels you." - Travis McAshan
"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out." - Steve Jobs
"A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position." - John C. Maxwell
"If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it." - Wanda Sykes
"There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a business person." - Anthony Robbins
"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
"Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, fuels our love and carries our friendships, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limits." - Pat Tillman
Dreams Quotes
Quotes about the value of dreaming big and reaching for success.
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"I dream my painting and I paint my dream." - Vincent Van Gogh
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters." - Henry David Thoreau
"Don't dream your life, but live your dream." - Mark Twain
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer." - Harriet Tubman
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"You have to dream before your dreams can come true." - Abdul Kalam
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work." - Colin Powell
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." - Yoko Ono
"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan
"Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason." - Katrina Mayer
"Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination." - William Longgood
"The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you." - Tom Bradley
"In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own." - J.K. Rowling
"Follow your dreams, they know the way." - Kobe Yamada
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes
"Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you." - Marsha Norman
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France
"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." - Edgar Cayce
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." - Paulo Coelho
"Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep." - Cristiano Ronaldo
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough." - Peter Pan
"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." - Anais Nin
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living." - Anais Nin
"No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big." - Anonymous
"Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe." - Gail Devers
"Dreams are like stars; you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny." - Liam James
"A dream is not just a wish your heart makes. It is the hope that God places inside your heart to believe in what may seem impossible to accomplish." - Shonna Stallworth
"Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them." - Steve Maraboli
"Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream." - Debby Boone
"Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life." - Leo Buscaglia
"A man's dreams are an index to his greatness." - Zadok Rabin
Achievement Quotes
Quotes that provide a sense of pride in accomplishing goals.
"Every achievement is a servitude. It compels us to a higher achievement." - Albert Camus
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values." - Ayn Rand
"The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment." - Tony Robbins
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." - Harold Taylor
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." - Albert Einstein
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
"Success isn't just about making money. It's about making a difference." - Unknown
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." - Thomas Paine
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." - Chris Grosser
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." - Colin R. Davis
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Colin Powell
"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
"Success is not in what you have, but who you are." - Bo Bennett
"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve." - Wilfred Peterson
"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances." - Orison Swett Marden
"Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals." - Aristotle
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." - George Bernard Shaw
"Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat." - Malcolm Forbes
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." - Orison Swett Marden
"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." - Booker T. Washington
"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours." - Orison Swett Marden
"Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries." - Richard Wagner
"Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success." - Brian Tracy
"The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources." - Vauvenargues
"Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses." - Marilyn vos Savant
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." - Charles Kingsleigh
"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval." - Denis Waitley
"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." - Orison Swett Marden
"The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind." - Henry David Thoreau
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
"Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose." - G.K. Nielson
Quotes about Learning
Quotes that celebrate knowledge, growth, and development.
"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice." - Brian Herbert
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." - Abigail Adams
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you." - B.B. King
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin
"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Pablo Picasso
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." - Mortimer Adler
"Change is the end result of all true learning." - Leo Buscaglia
Wisdom Quotes
Quotes that offer insights on life, often based on experiences and lessons learned.
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Lao Tzu
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little." - Plato
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." - Socrates
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." - Carl Jung
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." - Buddha
"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Abraham Lincoln
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X
"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." - George Santayana
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates
"The only thing that is constant is change." - Heraclitus
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." - Nicolaus Copernicus
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." - Confucius
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Søren Kierkegaard
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." - William Wordsworth
"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules." - George Bernard Shaw
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment." - Lao Tzu
"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own." - Lao Tzu
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it." - Maurice Switzer
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool." - Charles Spurgeon
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance." - Benjamin Franklin
"It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!" - Robert T. Kiyosaki
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise." - Paul Engle
"The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing." - Socrates
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience." - Leonardo da Vinci
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody’s hand and squeeze it, while there’s time." - Dale Dauten
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - George Bernard Shaw
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
Motivational Quotes About Progress
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. - Robert Kiyosaki
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. - Cyril Connolly
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. - Mark Caine
The road to success is always under construction. - Lily Tom
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. - G.K. Chesterton
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverly Sills
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. - Henry Ford
The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. - Barack Obama
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time. - Arnold H. Glasow
Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others. - John C. Maxwell
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert B. Swope
The secret to getting ahead is getting started. - Mark Twain
Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise. - Frank Ocean
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. - Swami Vivekananda
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly. - Proverb
Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy. - Anonymous
Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. - Vaibhav Shah
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. - Albert Einstein
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Quotes About Patience
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. - Abraham Lincoln
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--It is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope
Success is not just the destination, it's also the journey. - Zig Ziglar
Success isn't just about making money. It's about making a difference. - Unknown
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - Jim Rohn
The only way to achieve real success is to have passion. - Unknown
Success is largely the failures you avoid. - Health 24
Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. - Denis Waitley
Giving your best is more important than being the best. - Zig Ziglar
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better. - Tony Dungy
Success is not about making money. It's about making your life a story worth telling. - Brandon Stanton
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. - Paul J. Meyer
You have to be able to get up and dust yourself off and always be going forward. - Rita Moreno
"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this
Believe you can and you're halfway there."" - Theodore Roosevelt"
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. - Henry Ford
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. - Thomas Paine
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. - Rabindranath Tagore
Quotes About Overcoming Hardships
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit. - Conrad Hilton
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. - John F. Kennedy
Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success. - Shiv Khera
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. - Napoleon Hill
Sometimes it's not about being the most talented. Sometimes it's about being the nicest. - Julia Roberts
Success is not about the destination. It's about the journey. - Zig Ziglar
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis
I can, therefore I am. - Simone Weil
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. - John F. Kennedy
Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine. - Roy T. Bennett
You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. - George Lorimer
Your true success in life begins only when you make the commitment to become excellent at what you do. — Brian Tracy
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James
If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles. - Wayne Dyer
The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it. - Unknown
The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them. - Michelle Obama
Success is not just being wealthy, but being consistent with your progress. - Unknown
Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau
Quotes About Determination
The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker
Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction. - George Lorimer
Do something today that your future self will thank you for. - Sean Patrick Flanery
Little by little, one travels far. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Dream it. Believe it. Build it. - Unknown
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. - Ralph Marston
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. - Vince Lombardi
Success is not just about achieving what you aim for, it's also about what you overcome on your way there. - Unknown
You only fail when you stop trying. - Albert Einstein
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. - Brian Tracy
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. - Sam Levenson
Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. - Chantal Sutherland
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. - George Whitefield
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! - Norman Vincent Peale
I can and I will. Watch me. - Carrie Green
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember -- the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. - Zig Ziglar
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about hard work every day and thriving on a challenge. - Summer Sanders
Do one thing every day that scares you. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. - Babe Ruth
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. - Oprah Winfrey
Quotes About Diligence
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. - Ayn Rand
The starting point of all achievement is desire. - Napoleon Hill
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Benjamin Disraeli
The successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. - Zig Ziglar
Fall seven times and stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. It is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. - Norman Vincent Peale
You just can't beat the person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth
Don't limit your challenges. Challenge your limits. - Jerry Dunn
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. - Paul Bryant
Believe in yourself, push your limits, experience life, conquer your goals, and be happy. - Joel Brown
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. - Roy T. Bennett
Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish. - Brad Henry
Quotes About Believing in Yourself
Believe in yourself, go after your dreams, and don't let anyone put you in a box. - Daya
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you greater than any obstacle. - Christian D. Larson
Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet. - Swami Vivekananda
Little by little, day by day, what is meant for you WILL find its way. - Unknown
Sometimes we're tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths. - Unknown
Don't stop when you're tired. STOP when you are DONE. - Unknown
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded. - Jack Canfield
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. - Bill Cosby
Success is not just the culmination of the 'big stuff'. It lies in the small things we do every day. - Chris Grosser
Success is doing what you love and making it a career. - Bo Bennett
Success is not about getting it right the first time. It's about getting it right the last time. - Unknown
Your success and happiness lie in you. - Helen Keller
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. - W. Clement Stone
All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point. - Eric Thomas
Success is not about the destination, it's about the journey. - Zig Ziglar
Success is the result of continuous effort. - Unknown
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
Success is not just about income. It's about influence. - Unknown
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. - Harriet Tubman
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao Tzu
Inspiring Quotes About Doing Good
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand. - Napoleon Hill
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. - C.S. Lewis
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Zig Ziglar
Opportunities don't happen, you create them. - Chris Grosser
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. - Steve Jobs
The only thing you can do to lead others is to be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. - Zig Ziglar
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. - Ann Landers
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it. - Henry Ford
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. - Vince Lombardi
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members better. - Tony Dungy
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. - P. T. Barnum
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
Success is not about being a winner. It's about being consistent. - George Couros
Success is a child of audacity. - Benjamin Disraeli
Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. - Shah Rukh Khan
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. - Margaret Thatcher
Quotes About Achievements
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you will be successful. - Herman Cain
Success isn't owned. It's leased, and rent is due every day. - J. J. Watt
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - George S. Patton
Success is never accidental. - Jack Dorsey
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. - Jim Rohn
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. -
Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it. - Unknown
Your only limit is your mind. - Unknown
Great things never come from comfort zones. - Unknown
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing. - Pelé
Don't limit your challenges. Challenge your limits. - Unknown
Each day provides its own gifts. - Marcus Aurelius
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. - Les Brown
It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career. - Carlton Fisk
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. - Simone de Beauvoir
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. - Pauline Kael
Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it. - George Bernard Shaw
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney
Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. - Virat Kohli
Quotes about Overcoming Self-doubt
Believe you can and you're halfway there. - T. Roosevelt
Stop doubting yourself, work hard, and make it happen. - Unknown
If we have the attitude that it's going to be a great day it usually is. - Catherine Pulsifer
You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours. - Unknown
Impossible is just an opinion. - Paulo Coelho
Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up. - Isabelle Lafleche
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it. - Elon Musk
Hold the vision, trust the process. - Unknown
People who wonder whether the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable. - Unknown
Just another Magic Monday - Unknown
One day or day one. You decide. - Unknown
It's Monday... time to motivate and make dreams and goals happen. Let's go! - Heather Stillufsen
It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.- Marcus Zusak
So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership. - Julio-Alexi Genao
No one is to blame for your future situation but yourself. If you want to be successful, then become Successful. - Jaymin Shah
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. - Thomas Edison
Every successful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him. - K'wan
Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later. - Unknown
Quotes About Working Hard
Hustlers don’t sleep, they nap. - Unknown
Greatness only comes before hustle in the dictionary. - Ross Simmonds
Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far. - Gary Vaynerchuk
Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you. - Mark Cuban.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. - Tim Notke
