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1. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown
2.“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” -Chinese Proverb
3. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” -Mark Twain
5. The only thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.” -Neil Gaiman
6. “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.” -Oprah Winfrey
7. “Curiosity is the compass that leads us to our passions. Follow it and you won’t be disappointed. The future belongs to the curious.” -Unknown
8. “If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.” – Betty Eadie
9. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
10. “Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” -Oscar Wilde
11. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”- Estée Lauder
12. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.” –George Eliot
13. “Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.” –Ziad K. Abdelnour
14. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.” – Henry Ford
16. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” -Nelson Mandela
17. “It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” -Mae Jemison
18. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan
19. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. -Stephen Covey
20. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
21. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
22. The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job. -Zig Ziglar
23. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. – Dalai Lama
24. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -Maya Angelou
25. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. -George Addair
26. “People talk about getting lucky breaks in their careers. I’m living proof that the ‘lucky breaks’ theory is simply wrong. You get to make your own luck…. The world is run by those who show up…not those who wait to be asked.” -Steve Blank
27. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” -Mark Twain
28. “If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.” –Ray Kroc
29. “Timing, perseverance, and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.” –Biz Stone
30. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. “When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.” -Josh James
32. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” –Thomas Edison
33. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” –Benjamin Franklin
34. “Care about what other people think, and you will always be their prisoner.” –Lao Tzu
35. ”Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” –Bill Bradley
36. “I hope my life is a testimony to show people no matter what you go through, how many hurdles are placed in front of you, how many bumps and bruises you get, to pick yourself up and be resilient and keep on trucking.” -Gucci Mane
37. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”-Eleanor Roosevelt
38. “I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.” -J.K. Rowling
39. “Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged.” –K. Rowling
40. “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” –Dorothy Height
41. “No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” –Tony Robbins
42. “It has been said that a person may have ten years of experience, or one year of experience repeated ten times.” –Yukiso Yamamoto
43. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas Edison
44. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -Nelson Mandela
45. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” -Margaret Thatcher
46. “Continuous effort–not strength or intelligence–is the key to unlocking our potential.”– Winston Churchill
47. “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” -Gena Showalter
48. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
49. “We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” -Max Depree
50. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” -C.S. Lewis
