All Quotes

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

— Pema Chödrön

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime.

— James Russell Lowell

I will prepare and someday my chance will come.

— Abraham Lincoln

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

— Seneca the Younger

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

— Theodore Roosevelt

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

— Epictetus

With confidence, you have won before you have started.

— Marcus Garvey

In the end, we'll all become stories.

— Margaret Atwood

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

— Samuel Johnson

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

— T. S. Eliot

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

— Michel de Montaigne

You always own the option of having no opinion.

— Marcus Aurelius

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

— John Dewey

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

— William Ernest Henley

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

— Laozi

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

— Edmund Burke

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Well done is better than well said.

— Benjamin Franklin

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

— Buddha

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

— Leon C. Megginson

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

— Albert Einstein

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think, therefore I am.

— René Descartes

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

— Will Durant

The unexamined life is not worth living.

— Socrates

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

— Stephen Hawking

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

— Aldous Huxley

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

— Mark Twain

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't.

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Albert Einstein

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

— Wilfred Peterson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— John D. Rockefeller

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

— Michael Jordan

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

— Stephen King

I cannot express how important it is to believe that taking one tiny—and possibly very uncomfortable—step at a time can ultimately add up to a great distance.

— Tig Notaro

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

— Oprah Winfrey

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

— Bruce Lee

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

— Rabindranath Tagore

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

— Paulo Coelho

The best way out is always through.

— Robert Frost

If you believe it will work, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles.

— Wayne Dyer

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

— Will Rogers

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

— Sun Tzu

In the long run, you make your own luck — good, bad, or indifferent.

— Loretta Lynn

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

— Jimmy Dean

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

— Benjamin Franklin

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

— Thomas Edison

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

— W.B. Yeats

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Winston Churchill

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

— William Shakespeare

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

— Robert Frost

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

— Maya Angelou

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

— Sun Tzu

Knowledge is power.

— Francis Bacon

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

— Lao Tzu

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

— Chinese Proverb

Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it.

— Sundar Pichai

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Isabel Allende

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Confucius

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

— John Wooden

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

— Michael Jordan

You've got to be in it to win it.

— Tony Robbins

Life is what we make it and how we make it, whether we realize it or not.

— Napoleon Hill

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

— Mae West

The best way to find out what you want in life is to try a lot of things.

— Oprah Winfrey

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

— John Quincy Adams

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

— Wayne Gretzky

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

— Walt Disney

You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

— A. A. Milne

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

— Deep Roy

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

— Muhammad Ali

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

— Thomas Edison

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

— Madam C.J. Walker

The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Karen Lamb

Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

— Robin Sharma

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

— Brad Paisley

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.

— Melody Beattie

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

— Nido Qubein

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

— Neil Gaiman

The quality of our life on planet Earth depends on the choices we make every day.

— BJ Fogg

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Marcus Aurelius

The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don't love you back.

— Warren Buffett

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

— Tom Peters

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

— Laozi

The wise person doesn't give the right answers, but poses the right questions.

— Socrates

There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.

— Brian Tracy

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

— Vince Lombardi

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

— Walt Whitman

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

— Allen Saunders

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

— Suzy Kassem

Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.

— Jim Rohn

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

— Albert Einstein

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

— Benjamin Franklin

The funny thing about wishes. Sometimes all it took to make them come true was a first step.

— TJ Klune

There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.

— Desmond Tutu

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Jane Goodall

If you're going through hell, keep going.

— Winston Churchill

The secret of a human being's existence is not only to live but to have something to live for.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You do not rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems.

— James Clear

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Hold fast, and you will find a way.

— Harriet Tubman

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you.

— Octavia Butler

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

— Amelia Earhart

Today is victory over yourself of yesterday. Tomorrow is victory over lesser men.

— Miyamoto Musashi

The best revenge is massive success.

— Frank Sinatra

What we think, we become.

— Buddha

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

— Confucius

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

— Abraham Lincoln

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

— Dalai Lama

Everything you can imagine is real.

— Pablo Picasso

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

— Mae West

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

— Dalai Lama

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

— Maya Angelou

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

— Socrates

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

— Oprah Winfrey

Not all those who wander are lost.

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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

— Oscar Wilde

The unexamined life is not worth living.

— Socrates

I think, therefore I am.

— René Descartes

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

— Mark Twain

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

— Thomas Edison

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the mastery of it.

— Mark Twain

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

— Aristotle

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Winston Churchill

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

— Albert Einstein

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

— John D. Rockefeller

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

— Zig Ziglar

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

— Aristotle

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

— Booker T. Washington

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

— Henry David Thoreau

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

— Tony Robbins

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

— Aristotle

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Charles R. Swindoll

Whatever you are, be a good one.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Robert Frost

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

— Confucius

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

— Chinese Proverb

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

— Confucius

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

— William James

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Nelson Mandela

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Wayne Gretzky

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

— Lao Tzu

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

— Buddha

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

— John Lennon

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Steve Jobs

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.

— Germany Kent

All things are difficult before they are easy.

— Thomas Fuller

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

— Henry David Thoreau

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

— Simone Weil

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

— Blaise Pascal

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

— José Ortega y Gasset

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Marcus Aurelius

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

— Michel de Montaigne

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

— Plato

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love.

— Rumi

Big results require big ambitions.

— Heraclitus

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

— Viktor Frankl

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

— Henry David Thoreau

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

— Epictetus

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

— Buddha

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

— Willie Nelson

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

— John Lennon

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

— Steve Jobs

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Steve Jobs

It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.

— Queen Elizabeth II

It always seems impossible until it's done.

— Nelson Mandela

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

— Plato

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

— Anaïs Nin

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

— Seneca the Younger

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

— Albert Camus

Commitment is an act, not a word.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

— Seneca the Younger

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Confucius

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

— Publilius Syrus