Personal Development Motivational Quotes

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country."

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

"Screw it, let’s do it!"

"Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe."

"People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it."

"Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are."

"None but ourselves can free our minds."

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds."

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"Dedication makes dreams come true."

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

"You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad."

"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."

"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."

"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

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

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life."

"Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you."

"Don’t wait for the perfect time, you will wait forever. Always take advantage of the time that you’re given and make it perfect."

"Without hustle, your talent will only get you so far."

"Hustle is the most important word – EVER."

"An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you."

"Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else."

"Every moment in business happens only once."

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

"Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want."

"The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you’re wrong? And do you change?"

"You never lose in business, either you win or you learn."

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Failure teaches us the most valuable lessons."

"No man becomes rich unless he enriches others."

"The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"The best feeling in the world is seeing the benefits and rewards of hard work."

"There’s no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move you in another direction."

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

"You gotta find that inner strength and just pull that s**t out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall on your face and collapse."

"Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth."

"I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable. I am an original."

"Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral. Pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

"Always have the highest bar for yourself. Wake up everyday and no matter how crappy you feel, want to change something for the better. Do something that makes someone happy. Create something that inspires someone. Be someone’s light when they are hopeless."

"You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed – you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that."

"Today, do what others won't so tomorrow you can accomplish what others can't."

"Set specific, challenging goals. Keep pushing even when progress feels slow. Hunger for more fuels long-term success."

"You have to believe in yourself and your abilities. That's the only way to achieve greatness."

"Your love makes me strong. Your hate makes me unstoppable."

"I always try to improve and score more goals. I want to be the best."

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

"Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this."

"The only person who can really motivate you is you."

"You have to fight because you can’t count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can’t fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it."

"My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief."

"Embrace adversity and use it as fuel to drive your determination."

"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

"Winning takes care of everything."

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"Don’t just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference."

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

"With God all things are possible."

"Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold."

"Don’t gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold."

"You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big, and live big."

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"Every risk is worth taking as long as it’s for a good cause and contributes to a good life."

"Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge."

"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it."

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

"Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success."

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

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

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."

"Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free."

"Failure is not the outcome. Failure is not trying."

"If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. Giving up is the greatest failure."

"You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love."

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

"To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."

"Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love and love cannot be killed or swept aside."

"I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart. I am talented. I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don’t call me lucky. Call me a badass."

"Nothing is given. Everything is earned."

"Confidence comes from effort, not luck. Work hard enough to remove doubt."

"Dreams are not what you see in your sleep. Dreams are things which do not let you sleep."

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it."

"If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do."

"The only way to do something in depth is to work hard. It's that simple."

"The most effective way to do it is to do it."

"There’s no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all equal as human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that is that. I am not talented, I am obsessed."

"You have to be fearless and take risks to achieve greatness."

"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it."

"The greatest thing about tomorrow is I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life … That's the beauty of tomorrow."

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively."

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything."

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

"Without commitment, you'll never start, but more importantly, without consistency, you'll never finish."

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice."

"If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you?"

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them."

"Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try."

"If you’re good enough, no one is stopping you."

"Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It's all part of becoming an overnight success."

"Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action."

"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that!"

"The best tip I could tell you is to be active. So many people talk about what they want to do and they just love words. Put actions behind your words. Don’t be a talker, be a doer."

"Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."

"It’s not in the dreaming, it’s in the doing."

"I would rather be a failed entrepreneur than someone who never tried. Because even a failed entrepreneur has the skill set to make it on their own."

"Limits exist in the mind more than reality. Determination makes dreams achievable."

"Talent without working hard is nothing."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

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

"The best investment you can make is in yourself."

"Hard work, works! Working really hard is what successful people do."

"I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am."

"Authenticity is the key to unlocking your true potential; don't be afraid to show who you really are."

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

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

"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."

"Winning isn’t everything-but wanting to win is."

"Awareness is the greatest agent for change."

"It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once."

"If you really want to do something, stop telling yourself you can’t do it."

"Stop whining, start hustling."

"Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day."

"As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future."

"Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset."

"The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become the example."

"For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right."

"Work hard. Be kind. Take risks."

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"

"So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach, so we never dare to ask the universe for it. I’m the proof that you can ask the universe for it."

"There are no shortcuts-everything is reps, reps, reps."

"It all depends on what you’re willing to invest time and effort in and put your mind to. That’s what separates winners from losers. Winners are the ones who want the most out of their opportunities."

"Whatever your dream is, every single day you will be faced with challenges, but you have to keep moving forward."

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already."

"If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down."

"I want to say to all the young women out there: There will be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame, but if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you’re going you’ll look around and you’ll know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world."

"Give your time, give your heart, give your service, give someone something you made. It feels incredible."

"You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new."

"I think that if you’re passionate about something and you’re driven and you’re focused, then you can pretty much do anything that you want to do in life."

"I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed."

"I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps… I’m the first Simone Biles."

"Talent is useless without effort. Daily discipline creates greatness. Champions are built, not born."

"If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of."

"The day you think there is no improvement to be made is a sad one for any player."

"I think goals should never be easy. They should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time."

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

"My secret? See it, and stay focused on it."

"Believe in who you are and what you can accomplish."

"Doubt is only removed by action. If you’re not working then that’s when doubt comes in."

"Believe in yourself and your abilities, even when others doubt you."

"Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you."

"Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure."

"Fall down seven times; get up eight."

"You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity-a piece of a business-to gain your financial freedom."

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

"You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."

"I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success."

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

"Fail big! Today’s the beginning of the rest of your life."

"Live for yourself and you will live in vain. Live for others and you will live again."

"You’re gonna die, do something about it."

"The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena."

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

"You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on."

"The goal is not to be perfect by the end, it’s to be better today."

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

"Everything negative-pressure, challenges-is all an opportunity for me to rise."

"Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise."

"I don’t like to lose - at anything - yet I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks."

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."

"The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance."

"Please help others rise. Greatness comes not from a position, but from helping build the future. We should pull others up."

"Courage isn't charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think."

"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled."

"Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory."

"Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety and no doubt – just absolute confidence in yourself."

"No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box."

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

"You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

"When I'm not feeling my best I ask myself, 'What are you gonna do about it?' I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me."

"You have to be unique, different, and love and shine in your own way."

"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."

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

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

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day."

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

"The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson, or anyone in any position can control is their effort."

"Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless."

"It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake."

"Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader."

"Stay true to yourself and your vision. Don’t let any outside force or situation take you off your course."

"Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius."

"Opportunities lie in the place where the complaints are."

"All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest."

"Let your joy be in your journey – not in some distant goal."

"All defeats are temporary. There is no one person with a permanent black cloud following them."

"Don’t give up on your dreams just because they’re not happening right now."

"You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little."

"If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."

"The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you."

"Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about."

"A dream without a plan is just a wish."

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

"You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive."

"You are your own definition of beautiful and worthwhile."

"Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life."

"The only limit to your success is your own imagination."

"Don’t look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I could never do that.’ Look at the poster on your wall and think ‘I’m gonna do that!’"

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough. ... And you will tell them yes."

"We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give."

"A masterpiece isn’t built overnight. Success comes to those who stay consistent."

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

"In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision."

"I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that."

"Sometimes you have to be your own hero and save your own little heart."

"If you don’t stick to simplicity, you’ll die a horrible death."

"Success is the result of hard work, busting your ass every day for years on end without cutting corners or taking shortcuts."

"Real champions fight through adversity."

"Success is not measured by wins and losses, but by the impact you have on others."

"Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence."

"I smile at obstacles."

"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."

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

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them."

"Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change."

"Every no gets me closer to a yes."

"Don’t just think outside the box, crush it."

"You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don’t do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it."

"Most of the gains in life come from suffering in the short term so you can get paid in the long term."

"We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose."

"You combine hard work, creativity, and self-determination, and things start to happen."

"If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself."

"I’m learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone, I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world."

"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books-especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

"Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."

"Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love."

"Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead."

"Take a stand. Be known for your courage and confidence."

"Today’s ‘best practices’ lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried."

"No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most."

"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

"Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve."

"A lot of people dream, and while they are busy dreaming, the really interesting, powerful, engaged people are busy doing."

"Be someone’s light when they are hopeless."

"Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful?"

"You will not always be strong, but you can always be brave."

"Failure isn’t the enemy. Giving up is. Mistakes teach. Setbacks sharpen skills."

"Things won't go perfect. It's all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes."

"Happiness is the key to achieving true success."

"The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning."

"If you can't dream big, ridiculous dreams, what's the point in dreaming at all?"

"Excellence is not a skill. Excellence is an attitude."

"Stay humble, no matter how much success you achieve."

"Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be a struggle in your life."

"You can always become better."

"If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!"

"Fearlessness comes from knowing deep within that you are capable of anything."

"If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes."

"Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on."

"Legacy is greater than currency."

"Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities."

"Do your duty and a little more, and the future will take care of itself."

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

"Take a chance. It’s the best way to test yourself. Have fun and push boundaries."

"If you don’t fail, you’re not even trying."

"Things don’t correct themselves, you’ve got to go out there and work hard to correct them."

"Make each day your masterpiece."

"Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying no to all but the most crucial features."

"Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit. Concentrate all your thought and energy upon the performance of your duties."

"Ditch the dream and be a doer."

"Strive for greatness."

"The same thing that’s true in gymnastics is also true in life: You can’t go back. The best you can do is forgive yourself, take a deep breath, and get to work on the next challenge."

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

"No excuses. Just results."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."

"Power’s not given to you. You have to take it."

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."

"You don’t have to work for a big corporation if you don’t want to. Start your own. Start your own business."

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

"Kindness is karma."

"Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different."

"You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a Polaroid picture of where you are going to be in a few years."

"The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff."

"If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results."

"Sometimes, you have to make your own way when no one else believes in you."

"Creativity is getting inspiration and having that lightning bolt idea moment, and then having the hard work ethic to sit down at the desk and write it down."

"You are perfectly cast in your life. I can't imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play."

"When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?"

"Be grateful with everything you have and you will be successful in everything you do."

"Never underestimate the power of teamwork and collaboration."

"Fate is in your hands and no one elses"

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

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

"CEOs and leaders have to be life-long students. Not just students in the sense of attending courses or reading a book. You’ve got to learn how to read widely, walk the market, look at the trends in the marketplace, and make connections that don’t seem obvious."

"If you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business."

"Believe in your dreams, work hard, and never give up; miracles can happen."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you-what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind-you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy."

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

"At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It's about what you've given back."

"It’s easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is, ‘What do you want for yourself?’"

"One love, one heart. Let's get together and feel alright."

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."

"Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life."

"Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is."

"The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative."

"The moment you have an instinct to act on a goal, apply the 5-second rule."

"You are not a lottery ticket."

"If you want to win in the 21st century, you have to empower others, making sure other people are better than you are. Then you will be successful."

"Appreciate hard work and the process of hard work. Because after that’s over and you get the rewards of success, you look back on these moments and you respect those moments the best."

"Failure is an event, not a person."

"I believe in myself so much that nothing is going to stop me."

"Celebrate the achievements of others, as their success can inspire your own."

"Dare to dream big, take risks, and conquer your fears."

"Your focus on hating yesterday is killing your opportunity to love tomorrow."

"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"There is nothing permanent except change."

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over the self."

"The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself."

"Most wars are won or lost in our own heads."

"Suffering is the price of growth."

"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"Don’t be afraid to fail big, to dream big."

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

"Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself."

"It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from; you can make it."

"Some people feel the rain, others just get wet."

"The best marketing strategy ever: CARE."

"Routine beats inspiration."

"You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem."

"Every week is different for me, so I understand that I have to turn challenges into opportunities, demonstrating that persistence and courage pay off."

"If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will – even if it’s not immediately obvious."

"It is the mind that makes the body rich."

"As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass."

"You should always stand up for that which you feel strongly about, even if that means you have to let go of some people in your life."

"Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to."

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

"The future depends on what we do in the present."

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

"A great leader inspires us to have confidence in what we can do."

"Have goals. And understand that, to achieve these goals, you must apply discipline and consistency…not just on Tuesday and then miss a few days."

"Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be."

"There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one."

"The more you experience the challenge of failure, the stronger and wiser you become."

"Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world."

"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting."

"I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

"The only thing we should truly fear is not being true to ourselves."

"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open."

"Align yourself with the right people, forge the right relationships and you’ll set yourself up for the long run."

"Virtue is the only good."

"Character is destiny."

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

"Get action. Do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action."

"If you don't know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it."

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."

"Dreams have no limitations; they are the fuel that drives us forward."

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

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

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

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."

"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

"Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

"Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become."

"Time is the wisest counselor of all."

"Denial is the ultimate comfort zone."

"No one is going to come help you. No one’s coming to save you."

"Fear is self-imposed. Destroy it."

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice."

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

"Don’t focus on you, focus on what you can give others."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not."

"Success is doing what you want, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want."

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

"Conditions are never perfect. 'Someday' is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you."

"You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself."

"Don’t worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright."

"Success demands singleness of purpose."

"Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment."

"Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do."

"Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses."

"Courage is contagious."

"The less you want something, the less you're thinking about it, the less you're obsessing over it, the more you're going to do it in a natural way."

"The energy you’ll expend focusing on someone else’s life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol."

"A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine."

"Be proud of who you are."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle."

"If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table."

"The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas, but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive."

"Dreams without goals are just dreams. And they ultimately fuel disappointment."

"Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health - take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish."

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work."

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

"Whatever you fear most has no power-it is your fear that has the power."

"Don’t let fear be a roadblock."

"Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

"Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil."

"It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

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

"Make the best use of what's in your power and take the rest as it happens."

"Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed."

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."

"Fear is my ultimate guide."

"You’re comfortable? Great. That means you’re doing it wrong."

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

"Always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper."

"Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living."

"I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life."

"This, too, will pass."

"If you can outsource something or not do something for less than your hourly rate, outsource it or don't do it."

"You only live once. So do what you feel passionate about. Take chances, professionally. Don’t be afraid to fail."

"Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. So, keep moving, keep growing, keep learning!"

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

"Don’t let them change you or even rearrange you."

"Great things never come from comfort zones."

"Don't limit your challenges, challenge your limits."

"You don't find the happy life. You make it."

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

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."

"The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity."

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."

"One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."

"The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit."

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion."

"You put all the other stuff aside and go out and do your job, and mine is to be the best I can be for my teammates."

"Perfection is the enemy of profitability."

"Good business demands tough decisions based on rigorous analysis and unwavering follow-through. Emotion can't really play a part."

"A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better."

"It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction."

"The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real."

"The question you should be asking isn’t, 'What do I want?' or 'What are my goals?' but 'What would excite me?'"

"I’ve had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out."

"Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later."

"No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story."

"If you want to get rich, think of saving as earning."

"Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination"

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

"You are capable of amazing things."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

"Man is a being in search of meaning."

"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one workman."

"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly."

"The whole life of a man is but a point in time; let us enjoy it."

"It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the man who hankers for more."

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride."

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere"

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."

"The worst of all deceptions is self-deception."

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

"Root of honesty and virtue lies in good education."

"Neither blame nor praise yourself."

"Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it."

"Diva is a female version of a hustler."

"You have to be someone."

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

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

"If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting."

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

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient."

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

"You didn’t grow up driving…you figured it out."

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

"So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else."

"I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you."

"When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off."

"Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do."

"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

"Writing is the geometry of the soul."

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

"The credit we get for wisdom is measured by our success."

"If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness."

"You teach people how to treat you."

"Your limitation—it's only your imagination."

"Creativity is just connecting things."

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."

"Luck is when opportunity meets preparation."

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

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

"I blame no one. I look in the mirror."

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

"Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to."

"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day."

"The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children."

"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."

"None of us are perfect and we don’t have to be."

"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!"

"Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do."

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

"I never wanted to be famous. I wanted to be good at what I do."

"If you don’t have time for the small things, you won’t have time for the big things."

"Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing."

"Family’s first, and that’s what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game."

"The best teacher is experience learned from failures."

"What you fear is that which requires action to overcome."

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."

"Don’t confuse movement with progress because you can run in place and not get anything done."

"Life is a learning experience, only if you learn."

"If you’re co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don’t do your chores, the company won’t succeed. No task is too menial."

"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."

"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted."

"If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her."

"The best of times is now."

"One faces the future with ones past."

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough theyre yours."