100+ Solving a Problem Quotes to Inspire Action & Innovation

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." – Molière

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." – Napoleon Hill

"Turn your wounds into wisdom." – Oprah Winfrey

"Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." – Michael Jordan

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

"In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety." – Abraham Maslow

"Not deciding is a decision." – Edwin Louis Cole

"The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority." – Ken Blanchard

"Don’t make decisions when you’re angry and don’t make promises when you’re happy." – Unknown

"A year from now, you’ll wish you started today." – Karen Lamb

"Indecision is the thief of opportunity." – Ben Franklin

"Clarity precedes success." – Robin Sharma

"When in doubt, choose change." – L.M. Montgomery

"Better to regret something you did than something you didn’t." – Diana Vreeland

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

"Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail." – William James

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker

"Creativity is intelligence having fun." – Albert Einstein

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

"To innovate, you must play, experiment, and risk failure." – Sara Blakely

"Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working." – Henri Matisse

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

"An original idea is not derived from anything came before, but from the act of creation itself." – Ellen Key

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

"Everything you can imagine is real." – Pablo Picasso

"The imagination is the workshop of the mind." – Christine Lawler

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

"Art challenges society, and society repays the artist with indifference." – Banksy

"The most creative people are those who embrace uncertainty and explore without fear." – Brené Brown

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

"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

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

"True leadership lies in guiding others to discover their own power." – Meryl Streep

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

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

"Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front." – Nelson Mandela

"Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others." – John C. Maxwell

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

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

"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision." – Winston Churchill

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair

"Feel the fear and do it anyway." – Susan Jeffers

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." – Eleanor Roosevelt

"Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run, or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours." – Zig Ziglar

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Be brave enough to suck at something new." – Justin Kerr

"Fear is excitement without breath." – Fritz Perls

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." – Sir Edmund Hillary

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality." – Seneca

"What would you do if you weren't afraid?" – Sheryl Sandberg

"Time isn’t precious because it’s scarce, but because it’s irreversible." – Gary Vaynerchuk

"You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it." – Charles Buxton

"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort." – Paul J. Meyer

"Don’t count the days, make the days count." – Muhammad Ali

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot." – Michael Altshuler

"Lost time is never found again." – Benjamin Franklin

"Focus on being productive instead of busy." – Tim Ferriss

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things." – Peter Drucker

"The shortest answer is doing." – Lord Herbert

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

"Your schedule is your blueprint for success." – Anne Lamott

"Small daily improvements lead to stunning results." – Robin Sharma

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right." – Henry Ford

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong." – Peter T. McIntyre

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

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." – Christian D. Larson

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." – A.A. Milne

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." – Samuel Johnson

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." – Suzy Kassem

"You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing." – Unknown

"Own who you are. Unapologetically." – Zendaya

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." – J.M. Barrie

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." – Zig Ziglar

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality." – Les Brown

"Good things come to those who wait, but greater things come to those who get off their butts and work for it." – Napoleon Hill

"Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour." – James Clear

"Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination." – Napoleon Hill

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

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." – Lao Tzu

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance." – Samuel Johnson

"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier

"Delay is natural to a work of any size." – John Ruskin

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." – Chinese Proverb

"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting." – Joyce Meyer

"Trust the process. Keep showing up." – Alex Hormozi

"Slow progress is still progress." – Unknown

"Communication works for those who work at it." – John Powell

"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity." – Roy T. Bennett

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said." – Peter Drucker

"Words have energy and power. Use them wisely." – Yehuda Berg

"A good conversation is like a good movie—it should have a beginning, middle, and end, and keep you engaged throughout." – Unknown

"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another." – Alfred Adler

"The single most important principle in interpersonal relations is understanding." – Stephen R. Covey

"Speak when you are angry—and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret." – Ambrose Bierce

"Relationships thrive on attention, not perfection." – Mignon McLaughlin

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." – Annie Dillard

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

"Connection is why we’re here. It’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives." – Brené Brown

"Purpose is the reason we exist. Passion is the thing we love to do." – Simon Sinek

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

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." – Howard Thurman

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

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you." – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work." – Steve Jobs

"Meaning is not something you stumble across. It’s something you build into your life." – Bruce Springsteen

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." – Aristotle

"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

"You must do the kind of work that makes you come alive." – Marie Forleo

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." – Dolly Parton

"Life begins when you find your purpose." – Dan Miller