100+ Best Quotes in the World – Timeless Wisdom & Inspirational Sayings

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life." – Steve Jobs

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." – Confucius

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – C.S. Lewis

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." – Walt Whitman

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." – Henry David Thoreau

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them." – Chris Grosser

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." – Florence Nightingale

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." – Colin R. Davis

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." – Albert Einstein

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today." – Will Rogers

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character." – Unknown

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you." – Steve Jobs

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." – Vincent Van Gogh

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi

"Dream big and dare to fail." – Norman Vaughan

"Know thyself." – Socrates

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." – Heraclitus

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." – Benjamin Disraeli

"The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." – Carl Jung

"By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart." – Confucius

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." – Marcus Aurelius

"The mind is everything. What you think you become." – Buddha

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." – Buddha

"Where there is love, there is life." – Mahatma Gandhi

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." – David Viscott

"Love makes a short absence longer than eternity." – Constantin P. Cavafy

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours." – Maya Angelou

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." – Aristotle

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." – Emily Brontë

"I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more." – Angelita Lim

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." – Lao Tzu

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever." – Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day." – Unknown

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." – Dr. Seuss

"I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you." – Roy Croft

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." – E.E. Cummings

"To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." – Søren Kierkegaard

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." – Franklin P. Jones

"Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is having fear but choosing to act anyway." – Jamie Foxx

"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

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." – Nelson Mandela

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." – Steve Jobs

"It is hard to have the courage to do the right thing and own up to your mistakes." – Taylor Swift

"Courage is grace under pressure." – Ernest Hemingway

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." – Walt Disney

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is five minutes braver." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." – John Lennon

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." – George Bernard Shaw

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." – Helen Keller

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." – Abraham Lincoln

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." – Charles R. Swindoll

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." – Oprah Winfrey

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anaïs Nin

"Life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take your breath away." – Unknown

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." – Mae West

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be learned." – Helen Keller

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." – Pablo Picasso

"I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right." – Unknown

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes." – Jim Carrey

"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I’m not so sure." – Unknown

"I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode." – Unknown

"I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised." – Steven Wright

"I’m not late. Everyone else is just early." – Unknown

"I don’t need a personal assistant. I just need someone to do everything for me." – Tina Fey

"I’m not weird, I’m a limited edition." – Unknown

"I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination." – Unknown

"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it." – Unknown

"I didn’t lose my mind. I sold it on eBay." – Unknown

"I’m not clumsy. It’s just the floor hates me, the table and chairs get in my way." – Unknown

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." – Norman Vincent Peale

"Growth begins when we accept our shortcomings." – John C. Maxwell

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." – Alan Watts

"People don't resist change. They resist being changed." – Peter Senge

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong." – Mandy Hale

"Transformation doesn't start with fixing what's wrong. It starts with building on what's strong." – Annie McKee

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." – Albert Einstein

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." – George Bernard Shaw

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." – John F. Kennedy

"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day." – Alice Morse Earle

"If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down." – Buddha

"Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another." – John C. Maxwell

"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

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." – John C. Maxwell

"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work." – Seth Godin

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." – Ralph Nader

"True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and compassionately expressed." – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." – Arnold H. Glasow

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." – Warren Bennis

"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are." – John C. Maxwell

"Leadership is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people,' that is flattery." – Dwight D. Eisenhower

"An effective leader is a servant first." – Robert K. Greenleaf

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going with them to get there." – Ken Kesey

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other." – Walter Elliot

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb

"It always seems impossible until it's done." – Nelson Mandela

"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." – Mary Holloway

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Confucius

"Strength does not come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." – Rikki Rogers

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." – Robert Jordan

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." – Maya Angelou

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." – C.S. Lewis

"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." – Nelson Mandela

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up." – Vince Lombardi