Explore Quotes: Wisdom, Motivation & Inspiration

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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

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

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.

Success doesn’t just come and find you, you have to go out and get it.

The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.

Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Little progress each day adds up to big results.

Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.

Even though we’re all walking different paths, we’re all headed to the same place.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Where there is love, there is life.

Love makes the world go round.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

We loved with a love that was strong than death.

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.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.

The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Do more than others expect you to. Listen more than you talk.

The fool speaks, the wise man listens.

True wisdom comes not from knowledge, but from understanding.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

A wise person knows when to speak and when to listen.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you need.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

The key to being happy is knowing you can’t be happy all the time.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life should look like and enjoying it for everything it is.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

There is no substitute for hard work.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Success is not measured by how high you climb, but how many people you bring with you.

Success is not how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.

Success is not owned, it is rented — and the rent is due every day.

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

Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

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.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

Leadership is action, not position.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Leaders think and act alike. Follow-ers think and act alike.

To be or not to be, that is the question.

I have a dream.

Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.

That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Knowledge is power.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by.

All that glitters is not gold.

Well done is better than well said.