100+ Famous People Quotes & Inspirational Copywriting Phrases

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – Steve Jobs

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge." – Simon Sinek

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Nelson Mandela

"To lead people, walk beside them." – James Cash Penney

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

"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of the team." – John Wooden

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

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

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

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams

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

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." – John C. Maxwell

"Your limitation—it's only your imagination." – Unknown

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

"Great things never come from comfort zones." – Unknown

"Dream it. Wish it. Do it." – Unknown

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

"The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it." – Unknown

"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done." – Unknown

"Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction." – Unknown

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for." – Unknown

"Little things make big days." – Unknown

"It’s going to be hard, but hard does not mean impossible." – Unknown

"Dream bigger. Do better." – 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 used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. So I switched to business." – Rich Dad Poor Dad

"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 always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." – Lily Tomlin

"I'm not short, I'm concentrated awesome." – Unknown

"I put the 'pro' in procrastination." – Unknown

"I don't need therapy, I just need to scream into the void… preferably with snacks." – Unknown

"My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do." – Unknown

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

"If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success." – Unknown

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

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – 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

"Man is the measure of all things." – Protagoras

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

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." – Carl Jung

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

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." – Friedrich Nietzsche

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

"Love makes a short absence long, and a long presence short." – Friedrich von Hardenberg

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn

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

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

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

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

"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

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." – Victor Hugo

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett

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

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

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

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take." – Wayne Gretzky

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." – Vidal Sassoon

"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

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

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." – Estée Lauder

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." – Audre Lorde

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

"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman." – Margaret Thatcher

"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." – Michelle Obama

"I’ve learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Maya Angelou

"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." – Malala Yousafzai

"Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women." – Maya Angelou

"I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard." – Malala Yousafzai

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." – Coco Chanel

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." – Martin Luther King Jr. (often quoted by women leaders)

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." – Maya Angelou

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." – Albert Einstein

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense." – Pablo Picasso

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." – Maya Angelou

"Art challenges technology; technology inspires the art." – John Lasseter

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – Steve Jobs

"The creative adult is the child who survived." – Ursula K. Le Guin

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow." – Kurt Vonnegut

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions." – Albert Einstein

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before." – Neil Gaiman

"Creativity takes courage." – Henri Matisse

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." – Edwin Land

"The creative mind plays with the object it loves." – Carl Jung

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." – J.K. Rowling

"What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger." – Friedrich Nietzsche

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

"Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey

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

"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about." – Haruki Murakami

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." – Maya Angelou

"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

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations." – Zig Ziglar

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

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

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Self-improvement is a never-ending journey." – Brian Tracy

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

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." – Jim Rohn

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

"Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make." – Warren Buffett

"Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone." – Neale Donald Walsch

"Do not wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect." – Zoey Sayward

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment." – Stephen Covey

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

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

"Every day is a new opportunity to become a better version of yourself." – Unknown