324 quotes
“Life is not about finding yourself life is about creating yourself”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Do not go where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Victorious warriors win first and then go to battle while defeated warriors go to battle first and then seek to win”
— Sun Tzu
“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
— Rosa Parks
“The seed of suffering in you may be strong but do not wait until you have no more suffering to be happy”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“You cannot stop the waves but you can learn to surf”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
— Lao Tzu
“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself”
— Plato
“Your life does not get better by chance it gets better by change”
— Robin Sharma
“You do not have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great”
— Les Brown
“The good life is a process not a state of being it is a direction not a destination”
— Carl Rogers
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped”
— Tony Robbins
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
— Voltaire
“If your actions inspire others to dream more learn more do more and become more you are a leader”
— John Quincy Adams
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself”
— Leo Tolstoy
“A wise person does at once what a fool does at last”
— Baltasar Gracian
“Arise awake and stop not till the goal is reached”
— Swami Vivekananda
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
— Unknown
“Habits of thinking need not be forever you have the power to change them”
— Martin Seligman
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Life is like riding a bicycle to keep your balance you must keep moving”
— Albert Einstein
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I had no words for”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“You have power over your mind not outside events realize this and you will find strength”
— Marcus Aurelius
“When one is resolute, the gods take notice.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be”
“Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how”
— Nietzsche
“The quality of your life depends on how well you manage your body mind and energy”
— Sadhguru
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you”
— Walt Whitman
“The arrow that has left the bow never returns. Therefore, always aim with kindness and strength.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“The greatest good you can do for another in your family is not just to share your riches but to reveal to them their own.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“What you seek is seeking you”
— Rumi
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself aloud”
— Coco Chanel
“A person who is happy is not because everything is right in his life he is happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right”
— Sundar Pichai
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult”
— Seneca
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
— Vincent van Gogh
“The only journey is the one within”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“In times of adversity and change we really discover who we are and what we are made of”
— Howard Schultz
“Energy and persistence conquer all things”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.”
“Be yourself everyone else is already taken”
— Oscar Wilde
“Done is better than perfect”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it has not worked try approving of yourself”
— Louise Hay
“The fears we do not face become our limits”
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen”
— Brene Brown
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do”
— Epictetus
“The point of power is always in the present moment”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”
— Marianne Williamson
“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past but you will find yourself”
— Deepak Chopra
“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance”
— Alan Watts
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do”
— John Wooden
“Patience persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”
— Napoleon Hill
“When sleeping women wake, mountains move.”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it”
— Peter Drucker
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
— Bertrand Russell
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer”
— Albert Camus
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
— Alice Walker
“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else”
— Iyanla Vanzant
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance”
— Eckhart Tolle
“An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down”
— Reid Hoffman
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”
— Virginia Woolf
“The quality of a persons life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence”
— Brendon Burchard
“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
“Success is your duty obligation and responsibility”
— Grant Cardone
“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks”
— Rachel Carson
“Give light and people will find the way”
— Ella Baker
“We become what we think about most of the time and that is the strangest secret”
— Earl Nightingale
“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your potential”
— David Goggins
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do”
“When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less important whether I am afraid”
— Audre Lorde
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve”
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters”
“Move out of your comfort zone you can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new”
— Brian Tracy
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it”
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“The question is not who is going to let me it is who is going to stop me”
— Ayn Rand
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
— James Baldwin
“A power plant does not have energy it generates energy”
“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakes”
— Carl Jung
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our power to choose”
— Viktor Frankl
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice it is conformity”
— Rollo May
“The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you unfold your own myth”
“Learning never exhausts the mind”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
— Ralph Nader
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.”
“If you see it in your mind you will hold it in your hand”
— Bob Proctor
“We are the ones we have been waiting for”
— June Jordan
“One child one teacher one book one pen can change the world”
— Malala Yousafzai
“When you argue with reality you lose but only one hundred percent of the time”
— Byron Katie
“Whether you think you can or you think you cannot you are right”
— Henry Ford
“If you are free you need to free somebody else. If you have some power then your job is to empower somebody else through creativity.”
— Toni Morrison
“I am not a product of my circumstances I am a product of my decisions”
— Stephen Covey
“If there is no struggle there is no progress”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world indeed it is the only thing that ever has”
— Margaret Mead
“The strongest person is not the one who overcomes others, but the one who overcomes himself.”
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
— Maya Angelou
“Imagination is more important than knowledge for knowledge is limited whereas imagination encircles the world”
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”
— Sharon Salzberg
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
— George Washington
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties”
— Erich Fromm
“Skills are cheap passion is priceless”
— Gary Vaynerchuk
“Discipline equals freedom”
— Jocko Willink
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality to change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”
— Buckminster Fuller
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation”
— Herman Melville
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual you will have to settle for the ordinary”
— Jim Rohn
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started”
— Mark Twain
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
— Mary Oliver
“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make”
— Jane Goodall
“We are what we repeatedly do excellence then is not an act but a habit”
— Aristotle
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent but the one most responsive to change”
— Charles Darwin
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you”
— James Allen
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it the time will pass anyway”
“When we strive to become better than we are everything around us becomes better too”
— Paulo Coelho
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
— Confucius
“Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.”
— Wayne Dyer
“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.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
— Nelson Mandela
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence”
— Nikola Tesla
“The obstacle is the way”
— Ryan Holiday
“The time is always right to do what is right”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.”
“The key to successful leadership today is influence not authority”
— Ken Blanchard
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something”
— Seth Godin
“You are free you are powerful you are good you are love you have value you have purpose all is well”
— Ester Hicks
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves”
— William Shakespeare
“To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
— Harriet Tubman
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”
— Isaac Newton
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things, but the one who gets people to do the greatest things.”
— Ronald Reagan
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life”
— Khalil Gibran
“Know thyself and thou shalt know the universe and the gods”
— Pythagoras
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop”
“The earth is what we all have in common”
— Wendell Berry
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears”
“Follow your heart but take your brain with you”
— Alfred Adler
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“Becoming is better than being”
— Carol Dweck
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens”
“What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish”
— Michelle Obama
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
— Socrates
“Believe in yourself have faith in your abilities without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”
— Langston Hughes
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“Every child is an artist the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”
— Picasso
“The world without is a reflection of the world within”
— Charles Haanel
“Everything is figureoutable”
— Marie Forleo
“Be impeccable with your word speak with integrity say only what you mean”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul”
— William Ernest Henley
“When you think everything is someone elses fault you will suffer a lot”
— Dalai Lama
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will”
— Suzy Kassem
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”
“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference because it does”
— William James
“Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are”
— Joseph Campbell
“In the course of history there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness”
— Wangari Maathai
“Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts”
— Winston Churchill
“Do your little bit of good where you are it is those little bits that overwhelm the world”
— Desmond Tutu
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
“I have learned that people will forget what you said people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel”
“Dwell in possibility”
— Emily Dickinson
“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have”
— Vince Lombardi
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it”
— Helen Keller
“The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
“You are the unchanging awareness in which all activity takes place”
— Mooji
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”
“I am large I contain multitudes”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do”
“I knew that if I failed I would not regret that but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying”
— Jeff Bezos
“Your personality creates your personal reality”
— Joe Dispenza
“The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can I will and I am”
— Denis Waitley
“However difficult life may seem there is always something you can do and succeed at”
— Stephen Hawking
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“Write what should not be forgotten”
— Isabel Allende
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
— Pema Chodron
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer always remember you have within you the strength”
“Failure is not the outcome failure is not trying do not be afraid to fail”
— Sara Blakely
“At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can”
— Frida Kahlo
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out”
— Robert Collier
“Change your thoughts and you change your world”
“Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows”
— Neville Goddard
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be”
“Never give up today is hard tomorrow will be worse but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine”
— Jack Ma
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
“Our industry does not respect tradition it only respects innovation”
— Satya Nadella
“Believe you can and you are halfway there”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”
— T.S. Eliot
“Enthusiasm is common endurance is rare”
— Angela Duckworth
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”
— John Buchan
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
— Steve Maraboli
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality”
— Warren Bennis
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”
— Roseanne Barr
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself”
— Abraham Maslow
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique but because of their passion”
— Martha Graham
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved how well we have let go”
— Jack Kornfield
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
— Maimonides
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better stronger richer quicker or smarter”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“Happiness is not something ready made it comes from your own actions”
“I want to empower women I want people to be afraid of the women I dress not afraid of failure”
— Alexander McQueen
“When something is important enough you do it even if the odds are not in your favor”
— Elon Musk
“Change your life today do not gamble on the future act now without delay”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“I want to empower women through my clothing and that is the constant thread”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they do not have any”
“There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made and which in its original state permeates all space”
— Wallace Wattles
“He who conquers others is strong he who conquers himself is mighty”
“People often say that motivation does not last well neither does bathing that is why we recommend it daily”
— Zig Ziglar
“Your time is limited so do not waste it living someone elses life”
— Steve Jobs
“The arrow that has left the bow never returns.”
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
— George Eliot
“The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”
— B.B. King
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution”
— Hannah Arendt
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life it goes on”
— Robert Frost
“The soul is healed by being with children”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I am natures greatest miracle”
— Og Mandino
“As long as you live keep learning how to live”
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet”
“The truth will set you free but first it will make you uncomfortable”
— Gloria Steinem
“Be miserable or motivate yourself whatever has to be done it is always your choice”
“The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails”
— William Arthur Ward
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”
“You become what you believe not what you think or what you want”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
— Paul the Apostle
“What we think we become”
— Buddha
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”
“All life is yoga”
— Sri Aurobindo
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
“Know thyself and thou shalt know the universe and the gods.”
“And once the storm is over you will not remember how you made it through but you will be transformed”
— Haruki Murakami
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past”
“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety”
— Gabby Bernstein
“The game of life is a game of boomerangs our thoughts deeds and words return to us sooner or later”
— Florence Scovel Shinn
“I have not failed I have just found ten thousand ways that will not work”
— Thomas Edison
“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it”
— Ernest Holmes
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness”
— Zhuangzi
“You do not learn to walk by following rules you learn by doing and by falling over”
— Richard Branson
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark”
— Michelangelo
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists.”
“You are one decision away from a completely different life”
— Mel Robbins
“The strength of the team is each individual member the strength of each member is the team”
— Phil Jackson
“Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less”
— Marie Curie
“Turn your wounds into wisdom”
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
“Always do your best what you plant now you will harvest later”
“Control of consciousness determines the quality of life”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
— Honoré de Balzac
“We need to accept that we will not always make the right decisions that we will screw up royally sometimes”
— Arianna Huffington
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man”
— Heraclitus
“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim and fixed their gaze on a goal which was high”
— Orison Swett Marden
“You wanna fly you got to give up the stuff that weighs you down”
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places”
— Ernest Hemingway
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
— Laozi
“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
— John Berry
“The present is theirs the future for which I have really worked is mine”
“I will persist until I succeed”
“I will either find a way or make one.”
— Hannibal Barca
“I have learned over the years that when ones mind is made up this diminishes fear”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear action breeds confidence and courage”
— Dale Carnegie
“If you are not getting better you are getting worse”
— Pat Riley
“You have within you right now everything you need to deal with whatever the world throws at you”
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope”
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do”
— Tim Ferriss
“I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.”
— Barbara Elaine Smith
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have make the now the primary focus of your life”
“A leader is one who knows the way goes the way and shows the way”
— John Maxwell
“If your emotional abilities are not in hand if you do not have self-awareness your self-management will suffer”
— Daniel Goleman
“Close your eyes and see yourself as you want to be see the achievement of your goals”
— Maxwell Maltz
“If you cannot fly then run if you cannot run then walk if you cannot walk then crawl but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward”
“In a gentle way you can shake the world”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
“Enlightenment is a destructive process it has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier”
— Adyashanti
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“People do not buy what you do they buy why you do it”
— Simon Sinek
“You were born to win but to be a winner you must plan to win prepare to win and expect to win”
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
“If there is a book that you want to read but it has not been written yet then you must write it”
“The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the leader adjusts the sails”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams live the life you have imagined”
“The standard of success in life is not the things it is not the money or the stuff it is absolutely the amount of joy you feel”
— Esther Hicks
“It always seems impossible until it is done”
“The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.”
— Solomon
“Let your joy be in your journey not in some distant goal”
— Tim Cook
“The quieter you become the more you can hear”
— Ram Dass
“Just because you are CEO do not think you have landed the job is not about the corner office”
— Indra Nooyi
“When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'”
“Aim for the moon if you miss you may hit a star”
— W. Clement Stone
“Truth is powerful and it prevails”
— Sojourner Truth
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing knowing is not enough we must apply being willing is not enough we must do”
“People do not resist change they resist being changed”
— Peter Senge
“You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him find it within himself”
— Galileo Galilei
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
“Education is not a tool for domestication but for liberation.”
— Paulo Freire
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing it is having the courage to show up”
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become”
— James Clear
“To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all”
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