Famous Quotes — Who Really Said It?
760+ quotes with verified attributions. Many famous quotes are misattributed — find the real source. Refreshed daily, categorized by theme, ready to share.
These 7 quotes get millions of searches. In almost every case, the author people type into Google is wrong. Click any to see the verified source.
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow…”
Often credited to: James Dean
Actually: Mahatma Gandhi →
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind…”
Often credited to: Martin Luther King Jr.
Actually: Mahatma Gandhi →
“The only person you are destined to become…”
Often credited to: Oprah Winfrey
Actually: Ralph Waldo Emerson →
“Everything you can imagine is real…”
Often credited to: John Lennon
Actually: Pablo Picasso →
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't…”
Often credited to: Mark Twain
Actually: Henry Ford →
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways…”
Often credited to: Benjamin Franklin
Actually: Thomas A. Edison →
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling…”
Often credited to: Confucius
Actually: Nelson Mandela →
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
motivation
🔥Motivation(110)
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
— Stephen King
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
— Babe Ruth
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Dream big and dare to fail.”
— Norman Vaughan
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
— Walt Disney
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
— Muhammad Ali
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”
— Henry Ford
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
— Wayne Gretzky
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
— George Addair
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
— Jim Rohn
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
— Maya Angelou
“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
— Walt Disney
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
“Your limitation—it's only your imagination.”
— Unknown
“Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.”
— Unknown
“Great things never come from comfort zones.”
— Unknown
“Dream it. Wish it. Do it.”
— Unknown
“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.”
— Unknown
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
— Sean Patrick Flanery
“Dream bigger. Do bigger.”
— Unknown
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
— Steve Jobs
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.”
— Tony Robbins
“You have greatness within you.”
— Les Brown
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.”
— Eric Thomas
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”
— Charles Kingsleigh
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind.”
— Henry Ford
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“It always seems impossible until it is done.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
— Les Brown
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I'm possible.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
— Helen Keller
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
— Elon Musk
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
— Jeff Bezos
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”
— Walt Disney
“I hated every minute of training, but I said don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
— Muhammad Ali
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency.”
— Dwayne Johnson
“Everything negative — pressure, challenges — is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
— Kobe Bryant
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
— Michael Jordan
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
— Babe Ruth
“Dreams without goals are just dreams.”
— Denzel Washington
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
— William Arthur Ward
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind.”
— Will Smith
“Nothing in life is to be feared, only to be understood.”
— Marie Curie
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”
— Harriet Tubman
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
— Zig Ziglar
“The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.”
— Matty Mullins
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
— Arthur Ashe
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”
— William Butler Yeats
“The future depends on what you do today.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“You are enough. You have enough. You do enough.”
— Brené Brown
“One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
— Howard Schultz
“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment.”
— Napoleon Hill
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
— Buddha
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.”
— Zig Ziglar
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
— Ayn Rand
“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.”
— Dolly Parton
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”
— Maya Angelou
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
— Dr. Seuss
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
— C.S. Lewis
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
— Amelia Earhart
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
— Socrates
“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.”
— George Whitefield
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
— Winston Churchill
“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”
— Will Rogers
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
— Stephen R. Covey
“When they go low, we go high.”
— Michelle Obama
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.”
— Barack Obama
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.”
— Barack Obama
“If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.”
— Kobe Bryant
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
— Robin Williams
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
— Robert Kiyosaki
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
— Karen Lamb
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
— Tim Ferriss
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
— A.A. Milne
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
— Langston Hughes
“If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help build theirs.”
— Tony Gaskins
“She believed she could, so she did.”
— R.S. Grey
“The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Your only limit is you.”
— Unknown
“Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.”
— Unknown
🦉Wisdom(118)
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
— Dalai Lama
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
— Albert Einstein
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
— Albert Einstein
“What we think, we become.”
— Buddha
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
— Lao Tzu
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
— Mark Twain
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
— Buddha
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
— Margaret Mead
“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
— Henrik Ibsen
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
— Seneca
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“You become what you believe.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
— Confucius
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle
“The first step toward change is awareness.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“Little things make big days.”
— Unknown
“Sometimes we're tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.”
— Unknown
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
— Benjamin Spock
“Well done is better than well said.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
— Plato
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
— John Milton
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
— Epictetus
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
— Albert Einstein
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
— Socrates
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
— Aristotle
“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
“He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.”
— Lao Tzu
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first by reflection, second by imitation, and third by experience.”
— Confucius
“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
— George Santayana
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
— Confucius
“To know what you know and what you do not know — that is true knowledge.”
— Confucius
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
— Socrates
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
— William Shakespeare
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
— William James
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
— Rumi
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
— Albert Einstein
“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.”
— Socrates
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
— Lance Armstrong
“We learn from failure, not from success.”
— Bram Stoker
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
— Oscar Wilde
“To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.”
— Buddha
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“The only journey is the one within.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.”
— John Dewey
“Character is what you are in the dark.”
— Dwight L. Moody
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
— Malcolm X
“You yourself must seek the truth. The Buddha only points the way.”
— Buddha
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
— Mark Twain
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions.”
— Lao Tzu
“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”
— Rumi
“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
— Patrick Rothfuss
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
— Socrates
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
— Plato
“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
— Steve Maraboli
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.”
— Buddha
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
— Francis Bacon
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.”
— Daniel J. Boorstin
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.”
— Steve Jobs
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
— Buddha
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
— Albert Einstein
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
— Buddha
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
— William Blake
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
— Plato
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
— Albert Einstein
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
— Salvador Dalí
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
— Anne Lamott
“Never let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
— Dalai Lama
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Become who you are.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“What you allow is what will continue.”
— Unknown
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
— Sigmund Freud
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
— Dalai Lama
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
— Buddha
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
— Maya Angelou
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.”
— Lao Tzu
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
— Lao Tzu
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
— Lao Tzu
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.”
— Sonia Ricotti
“Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
— Francis Bacon
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
🏆Success(91)
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill
“The best revenge is massive success.”
— Frank Sinatra
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
— Woody Allen
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
— John D. Rockefeller
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
— Maya Angelou
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
— Aristotle
“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.”
— Chris Grosser
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
— Albert Einstein
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become.”
— Zig Ziglar
“If you're not willing to risk the unusual, you'll have to settle for the ordinary.”
— Jim Rohn
“The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles.”
— Unknown
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
— Frank Ocean
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
— Estée Lauder
“Where focus goes, energy flows.”
— Tony Robbins
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”
— Aristotle Onassis
“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
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
— George S. Patton
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.”
— Henry Ford
“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
“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.”
— Zig Ziglar
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
— Michael Jordan
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
— Vince Lombardi
“Some people dream of success while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
— Wayne Huizenga
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
— Beverly Sills
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
— Albert Einstein
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.”
— Jim Rohn
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Double your rate of failure.”
— Thomas J. Watson
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.”
— Gurbaksh Chahal
“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
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”
— John D. Rockefeller Jr.
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
— Dale Carnegie
“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
— Ray Goforth
“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”
— Vince Lombardi
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting.”
— Wynn Davis
“Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.”
— Alexander Graham Bell
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
— David Brinkley
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
— Herman Melville
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”
— Colin R. Davis
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
— Albert Einstein
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”
— Florence Nightingale
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
— Mark Twain
“An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.”
— Reid Hoffman
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
— Bruce Lee
“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you.”
— T. Harv Eker
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
— Jim Rohn
“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
“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”
— Napoleon Hill
“There is no substitute for hard work.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
— Diogenes
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”
— Christian D. Larson
“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”
— Tony Robbins
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
— Zig Ziglar
“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
— John Wooden
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.”
— Charles F. Kettering
“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
— Conan O'Brien
“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”
— George S. Patton
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
— Michael Jordan
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
— Jim Rohn
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
— Dale Carnegie
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“A winner never stops trying.”
— Tom Landry
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
— Truman Capote
“Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.”
— Japanese Proverb
“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire.”
— Jane Smiley
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”
— Wayne Dyer
“If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.”
— Dave Weinbaum
“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”
— Roger Staubach
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
— Henry Ford
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.”
— Conrad Hilton
“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
— Mark Twain
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“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
“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
— Earl Wilson
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
— John F. Kennedy
“You will never win if you never begin.”
— Helen Rowland
“Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives.”
— Michelle Obama
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
— Jimmy Johnson
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
— Vince Lombardi
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
— Pablo Picasso
❤️Love(93)
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
— Aristotle
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
— Victor Hugo
“Where there is love there is life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
— David Viscott
“Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
— Franklin P. Jones
“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.”
— Henry Van Dyke
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“We are most alive when we are in love.”
— John Updike
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand
“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”
— John Wooden
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
— David Wilkerson
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”
— Mother Teresa
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”
— Rumi
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more.”
— Nicholas Sparks
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
— Stephen Chbosky
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
— William Shakespeare
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”
— Maya Angelou
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
— Charles Dickens
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.”
— Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
— Albert Ellis
“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us.”
— Paulo Coelho
“I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me.”
— Nicholas Sparks
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls.”
— Maya Angelou
“The best proof of love is trust.”
— Joyce Brothers
“True love stories never have endings.”
— Richard Bach
“To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that's everything.”
— T. Tolis
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.”
— Jane Austen
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
— A.A. Milne
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.”
— James Baldwin
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without.”
— James Baldwin
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
— Dr. Seuss
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
— Mother Teresa
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld
“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.”
— Nicholas Cage (City of Angels)
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
— Plato
“Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”
— Osho
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
— Theodore Hesburgh
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
— Oscar Wilde
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
— Sam Keen
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
— Rumi
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
— Max Muller
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
— Lucille Ball
“Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
— Karl A. Menninger
“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
— The Beatles
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
— Peter Ustinov
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
— Sophocles
“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
— Martin Luther
“Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
— John Lennon
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
— Victor Hugo
“Love is the voice under all silences.”
— e.e. cummings
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
— Willa Cather
“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
— eden ahbez
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.”
— Barbara De Angelis
“The things that matter most in life are not things.”
— Art Buchwald
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
— Roy Croft
“Love is not a feeling. It is a relationship.”
— Scott Peck
“Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.”
— William Butler Yeats
“Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.”
— Loretta Young
“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.”
— Nicholas Sparks
“Love is friendship that has caught fire.”
— Ann Landers
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.”
— Anaïs Nin
“The best love is the one that makes you a better person.”
— Unknown
“Love is not what you say. Love is what you do.”
— Unknown
“I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.”
— Edmond Rostand
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“My heart is ever at your service.”
— William Shakespeare
“You are my sun, my moon and all my stars.”
— e.e. cummings
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.”
— Rumi
“Love is not consolation. It is light.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
— Albert Einstein
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
— William Shakespeare
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
— Plato
“Love isn't blind; it just only sees what matters.”
— William Curry
“Love is what you've been through with somebody.”
— James Thurber
“In love, one and one are one.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“Love is always bestowed as a gift — freely, willingly and without expectation.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein
“Love is not just a feeling. It's a decision we make every day.”
— Unknown
“Love yourself enough to set boundaries.”
— Anna Taylor
“The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”
— Dalai Lama
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
— Buddha
🌱Life(90)
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
— Steve Jobs
“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.”
— John Lennon
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Mae West
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman
“Do what you love, love what you do.”
— Ray Bradbury
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”
— James Dean
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
— Charles R. Swindoll
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
— Maya Angelou
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
— Confucius
“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“May you live all the days of your life.”
— Jonathan Swift
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back.”
— Tony Robbins
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
— Mark Twain
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
— Helen Keller
“Life is short. Do stuff that matters.”
— Siqi Chen
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“My life is my message.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
— Samuel Butler
“The good life is not one immune to sadness but one in which suffering contributes to our growth.”
— Alain de Botton
“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”
— Sarah Louise Delany
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.”
— Danny Kaye
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Life is too short to be little.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
— Confucius
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives.”
— Unknown
“Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Life is not a rehearsal.”
— Rose Tremain
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.”
— Calvin Coolidge
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
— Dr. Seuss
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
— John W. Gardner
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.”
— Lewis Carroll
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
— Victor Hugo
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
— Emily Dickinson
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
— Helen Keller
“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 two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”
— Mark Twain
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them.”
— Lao Tzu
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.”
— Jack London
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain.”
— Vivian Greene
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
— Robert Brault
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is not a spectator sport.”
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”
— Mark Zuckerberg
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
— Helen Keller
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
— Les Brown
“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
— Coco Chanel
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
— Lao Tzu
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
— Dr. Seuss
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
— Coco Chanel
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
— Walt Disney
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
— Grandma Moses
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
— William Shakespeare
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.”
— Confucius
“Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.”
— Peter Hagerty
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
— Mother Teresa
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyam
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
— Robert Frost
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
— Robert Frost
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
— Dr. Seuss
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”
— Mark Twain
“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
— Unknown
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
— Mark Twain
“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Wherever you are — be all there.”
— Jim Elliot
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
— Albert Camus
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
🧭Leadership(82)
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
— John C. Maxwell
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
— Steve Jobs
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
— Warren Bennis
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
— Henry Kissinger
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself.”
— Jack Welch
“Good leaders must first become good servants.”
— Robert Greenleaf
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
— Booker T. Washington
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
— Ralph Nader
“A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.”
— Arnold H. Glasow
“Earn your leadership every day.”
— Michael Jordan
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude.”
— Jim Rohn
“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
— Tony Blair
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
— Peter Drucker
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
— John C. Maxwell
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
— Rosalynn Carter
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
— John F. Kennedy
“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”
— M.D. Arnold
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
— Lao Tzu
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
— Peter Drucker
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
— Ray Kroc
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
— Ronald Reagan
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
— Brian Tracy
“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
— George S. Patton
“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.”
— Simon Sinek
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
— Kenneth Blanchard
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
— Mother Teresa
“Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves.”
— Anonymous
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”
— Harvey S. Firestone
“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.”
— Sam Walton
“You manage things; you lead people.”
— Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
“Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.”
— Bill Bradley
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
— Bill Gates
“You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”
— Ken Kesey
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
— Alexander the Great
“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”
— Orrin Woodward
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
— John Quincy Adams
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself.”
— Erwin Rommel
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; kind, but not weak; bold, but not bully.”
— Jim Rohn
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front.”
— Nelson Mandela
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
— Max Lucado
“There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.”
— Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.”
— Theodore Hesburgh
“Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.”
— Brian Tracy
“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Almost all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”
— John C. Maxwell
“A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves.”
— Simon Sinek
“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”
— Dianne Feinstein
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
— Jack Welch
“A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.”
— Jack Welch
“Leadership is influence — nothing more, nothing less.”
— John C. Maxwell
“The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.”
— Lee Iacocca
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority.”
— Ronald Reagan
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”
— Andrew Carnegie
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.”
— Warren G. Bennis
“Leadership is not about a title or designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration.”
— Robin S. Sharma
“The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development.”
— John C. Maxwell
“The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.”
— Brian Tracy
“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader. A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements.”
— H.S.M. Burns
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Don't find fault, find a remedy.”
— Henry Ford
“Leaders should be reliable without being predictable.”
— Max McKeown
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.”
— Margaret Mead
“Great leaders do not desire to lead but to serve.”
— Myles Munroe
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.”
— John Wooden
“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see.”
— Leroy Eimes
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Character is the foundation of all great leadership.”
— Peter Drucker
“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it.”
— David Ogilvy
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.”
— George Van Valkenburg
“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
— John C. Maxwell
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they ought to be.”
— Rosalynn Carter
“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make these great people even better.”
— Steve Jobs
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
— African Proverb
🎨Creativity(83)
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
— Alan Kay
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
— Milton Berle
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
— Albert Einstein
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
— Pablo Picasso
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
— Maya Angelou
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein
“Creativity is connecting things.”
— Steve Jobs
“The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.”
— Sylvia Plath
“The creative adult is the child who survived.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”
— William Plomer
“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”
— Brené Brown
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”
— Leo Burnett
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
— Albert Einstein
“Good artists copy; great artists steal.”
— Pablo Picasso
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
— Erich Fromm
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.”
— Dr. Seuss
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”
— James Russell Lowell
“The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately.”
— Abe Tannenbaum
“There are no rules here — we're trying to accomplish something.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
— Voltaire
“Around here we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors.”
— Walt Disney
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.”
— Steve Jobs
“To be creative means to be in love with life.”
— Osho
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Creativity takes courage.”
— Henri Matisse
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.”
— Neil Gaiman
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
— Robert Bresson
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”
— Brené Brown
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
— Carl Sagan
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.”
— Pablo Picasso
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy
“You see things; and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
— Peter Drucker
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Clean up your room, find your purpose in life.”
— Jordan Peterson
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
— Albert Einstein
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
— Scott Adams
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
— John Lennon
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
— Lewis Carroll
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”
— Eric Hoffer
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
— Stephen R. Covey
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
— Jack London
“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”
— Edwin Land
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity — not a threat.”
— Steve Jobs
“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement.”
— William Pollard
“To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.”
— George Kneller
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
— Jamie Paolinetti
“Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
— Edward de Bono
“Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, you're more willing to take risks.”
— Yo-Yo Ma
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
— Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
— Thomas Merton
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right.”
— Steve Jobs
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”
— Jessica Hische
“An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.”
— William Bernbach
“Normal is not something to aspire to; it's something to get away from.”
— Jodie Foster
“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.”
— Edward de Bono
“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.”
— Dee Hock
“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
— Bob Ross
“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
— Linus Pauling
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
— Pablo Picasso
“It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.”
— Jean-Luc Godard
“The painter tries to show you what he sees; the poet tries to show you what he feels.”
— James Huneker
“Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.”
— Edwin Land
“You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?”
— George Bernard Shaw
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.”
— Stephen Nachmanovitch
“Creativity is the power to act.”
— Ai Weiwei
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight.”
— e.e. cummings
“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who transform a yellow spot into sun.”
— Pablo Picasso
“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”
— Robin Williams
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
— Pablo Picasso
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
— Margaret Atwood
“Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.”
— Vincent van Gogh
⛰️Perseverance(97)
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
— Confucius
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Confucius
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
— Nelson Mandela
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Nelson Mandela
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.”
— Amelia Earhart
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
— Aristotle
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails.”
— Jimmy Dean
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
— Og Mandino
“Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.”
— Unknown
“It's going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible.”
— Unknown
“The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.”
— Unknown
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
— Robert F. Kennedy
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
— St. Jerome
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines.”
— Robert H. Schuller
“The best way out is always through.”
— Robert Frost
“Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up.”
— Spryte Loriano
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
— Winston Churchill
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
— Japanese Proverb
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
— Confucius
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
— James A. Michener
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
— Walter Elliot
“You just can't beat the person who never gives up.”
— Babe Ruth
“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself.”
— Harriet Tubman
“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”
— Unknown
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
— Chinese Proverb
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”
— Jim Watkins
“Do not judge me by my successes; judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles is expressed in one word: Commitment.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.”
— Buddha
“Fall seven times. Stand up eight.”
— Japanese Proverb
“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”
— George S. Patton
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.”
— Calvin Coolidge
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
— Maya Angelou
“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be failure.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Never, never, never give up.”
— Winston Churchill
“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
— William Barclay
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
— Kenji Miyazawa
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
— Helen Keller
“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.”
— Winston Churchill
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance.”
— Marie Curie
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
— Stephen Hawking
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill
“When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters — one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.”
— Louis L'Amour
“It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”
— Vince Lombardi
“The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.”
— Unknown
“A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.”
— George M. Moore Jr.
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
— Robert H. Schuller
“Once you choose hope, anything's possible.”
— Christopher Reeve
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
— Joseph Kennedy
“The only way out is through.”
— Robert Frost
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.”
— Pelé
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
— Harry Golden
“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.”
— Michael Jordan
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
— T.S. Eliot
“Don't give up. Normally it is the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Be fluid, be soft.”
— Bruce Lee
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
— Thomas Paine
“Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.”
— Unknown
“The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.”
— Morris Mandel
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
— John Quincy Adams
“He conquers who endures.”
— Persius
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
— Charlie Chaplin
“Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
— Ray Kroc
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
— Albert Einstein
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
— Bill Bradley
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
— Douglas Adams
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
— Robert Collier
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
— Lou Holtz
“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
— Christopher Morley
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield.”
— Lao Tzu
“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.”
— George Lorimer
“You have to do what others won't to achieve what others don't.”
— Unknown
“It's always too soon to quit.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
— Zig Ziglar
“The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.”
— Kobe Bryant
“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”
— Kobe Bryant
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
— J.K. Rowling
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
— Edmund Hillary
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
— Joshua J. Marine
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
— Walt Disney
“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”
— William Ernest Henley
“Little by little, one travels far.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo
“Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.”
— Stephanie Bennett-Henry
About these quotes — and misattributions
Many of the most famous quotes on the internet are misattributed. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow” is Gandhi, not James Dean. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” is Gandhi, not MLK Jr. “Everything you can imagine is real” is Picasso, not John Lennon. Where we've found a popular wrong attribution, we explain it directly on the individual quote page.
Every quote on this page is either widely attributed to a public figure, in the public domain, or credited to its author. We chose them for density — each one rewards re-reading. Find one you like, screenshot it, share it.
The daily quote rotates automatically based on the current Phnom Penh calendar day, so every visit on a new day surfaces a different gem from the library. No account, no signup, no tracking.