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