Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. –Thomas Edison
Nothing is impossible; the word itself says “I’m possible.” –Audrey Hepburn
Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.
–Charles Swindoll
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt
Do or do not. There is no try. –Yoda
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
If you hear a voice within you say “You cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent van Gogh
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.
–Amelia Earhart
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. –Robert Louis Stevenson
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
–Anonymous
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. –Plutarch
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. –Albert Einstein
To play without passion is inexcusable. –Ludwig van Beethoven
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
–Dalai Lama
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing will work unless you do. –Maya Angelou
My why will define my how. Let your why be your guide. –Rhett Power
It is not what happens to you that matters, but what you do about it that makes the difference. –Rhett Power
Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
–Winston Churchill
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
Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. –Tony Hsieh
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
–Winston Churchill
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do. –Apple
The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. –Barack Obama
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. –Walt Disney
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. –Albert Schweitzer
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese proverb
If you can dream it, you can do it. –Walt Disney
I failed my way to success. –Thomas Edison
I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. –Estée Lauder
Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never reach it. –Salvador Dali
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. –Albert Einstein
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. –Coco Chanel
I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down. –Abraham Lincoln
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
–Leonardo da Vinci
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. –Roy Bennett
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have 24-hour days.
–Zig Ziglar
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
–Bertrand Russell
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.
–Malala Yousafzai
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. –Thomas Jefferson
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. –E. E. Cummings
The power of imagination makes us infinite. –John Muir
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. –Mahatma Gandhi
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
–Joseph Campbell
Each day provides its own gifts. –Marcus Aurelius
If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
–Eleanor Roosevelt
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. –Emily Dickinson
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. –Stephen Hawking
The most important thing is to enjoy your life–to be happy. It’s all that matters.
–Audrey Hepburn
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. –Frank Lloyd Wright
Action is the foundational key to all success. –Pablo Picasso
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. –Walter Scott
I attribute my success to this–I never gave or took any excuse.
–Florence Nightingale
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. –Robert F. Kennedy
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. –Albert Einstein
Achievement has no color. –Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. –Franklin D. Roosevelt
Focus is the key to success. Plan your work and work your plan. —Rhett Power
You can’t achieve a goal without having it. –Shawn Doyle
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become achieving your goals. –Goethe
Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult. –Winston Churchill
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. –Dr. Seuss
Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
–Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
–Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
–Dalai Lama
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
–John Lennon
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. –J.R.R. Tolkien
Happiness is a warm puppy. –Charles M. Schulz
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. –Gabriel García Márquez
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. –Mark Twain
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. –James Dean
Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are. –Chinese proverb
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them.
–Bernard M. Baruch
If you start to think the problem is “out there,” stop yourself. That thought is the problem. –Stephen Covey
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. –Greg Anderson
You never regret being kind. –Nicole Shepherd
The need for forgiveness is an illusion. There is nothing to forgive. –Rachel England
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. –Dalai Lama
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
–Dale Carnegie
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. –Deepak Chopra
Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. –J. Petit Senn
In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. –Albert Clarke
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are. –Goldie Hawn
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. –Anne Frank
If you want to be happy, be. –Leo Tolstoy
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. –Mark Twain
Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others. –A. Nielsen
There is more to life than increasing its speed. –Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. –Albert Schweitzer
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. —Rhett Power