“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
2. “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard
3. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
4. “You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it.” – Jen Sincero
5. “Face your fears; live your passions, be dedicated to your truth.” – Billie Jean King
6. “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston S. Churchill
7. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
8. “The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.” – Norman Vincent Peale
9. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
10. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “It’s hard for us to understand that we can be compassionate and accepting while we hold people accountable for their behaviors. We can, and, in fact, it’s the best way to do it.” – Brené Brown
12. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
13. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
14. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw
15. “If you limit yourself only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.” – Anais Nin
16. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
17. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
18. “Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
19. “To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.” – Michael Jordan
20. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” – Muhammad Ali
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21. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou
22. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
23. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou
24. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
25. “If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jen Sincero
26. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou
27. “So many of us run around spackling all of the cracks, trying to make everything look just right…remember the beauty of the cracks…our imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together. Imperfectly, but together.” – Brené Brown
28. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
29. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw
30. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
31. “What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.” – Jen Sincero
32. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
33. “Never apologize for who you are. It lets the whole world down.” – Jen Sincero
34. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
35. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King
36. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw
37. “Never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill
38. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
39. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
40. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
41. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston S. Churchill
42. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
43. “Don’t let anyone define you. You define yourself.” – Billie Jean King
44. “Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain
45. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
46. “Only you can control your future.” – Dr. Seuss
47. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
48. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
49. “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
50. “You have no responsibility to live up to what others think you should accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” – Richard Feynman
51. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin
52. “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin
53. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them.” – Albert Einstein
54. “Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
55. “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.” – Michael Jordan
56. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” – Mary Kay Ash
57. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz
58. “Vulnerability is the core of all emotions and feelings. To believe vulnerability is weakness it to believe that feeling is weakness.” – Brené Brown
59. “Somehow we’ve equated success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we’re very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves.” – Brené Brown
60. “I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.” – Maya Angelou
61. “Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up and think, ‘no matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.’ It’s going to bed at night thinking, ‘yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging’.” – Brené Brown
62. “Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.” – Anais Nin
63. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
64. “If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it–then I can achieve it.” – Muhammad Ali
65. “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
66. “Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.” – Michael Jordan
67. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali
68. “Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost
69. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.” – Winston Churchill
70. “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
71. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
72. “My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.” – Henry Rollins
73. “I never worry about action, but only inaction.” – Winston Churchill
74. “Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
75. “One day the people that didn’t believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.” – Johnny Depp
76. “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” – Lao Tzu
77. “Do it or don’t. It’s amazing how many things in life are that easy.” – Henry Rollins
78. “What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.” – Norman Vincent Peale
79. “I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.” – Marilyn Monroe
80. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Van Gogh
81. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
82. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
83. “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde
84. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
85. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas
86. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I only stop when I’m done.” – Marilyn Monroe
87. “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” – Michelle Obama
88. “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
89. “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde
90. “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.” – Walt Disney
91. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
