100+ Inspiring Quotes on 开始 in 2025

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Know thyself.” — Ancient Greek maxim (Temple of Apollo at Delphi)

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

“Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” — Simon Sinek

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Peter Drucker

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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Howard Thurman

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs

“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” — Ken Kesey

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren Bennis

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people they lead.” — Pete Hoekstra

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” — Winston Churchill

“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

“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” — Brené Brown

“Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” — Lou Holtz

“You were born to be real, not perfect.” — Unknown

“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” — Akshay Dubey

“Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.” — Brené Brown

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” — Carl Jung

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.” — Brené Brown

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” — Deepak Chopra

“It’s okay to not be okay—as long as you’re not staying there.” — Unknown

“I’m not arguing. I’m just explaining why I’m right.” — Unknown

“The internet is the first thing that humanity has built that inherently doesn’t like borders.” — Joi Ito

“We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.” — Jay-Z

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” — Derek Bok

“Social media is the landfill of human attention.” — Jaron Lanier

“We’re all just walking each other home.” — Ram Dass

“The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never be sure they’re real.” — Abraham Lincoln (satirical)

“Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.” — Thomas Sowell

“We have met the enemy and he is us.” — Walt Kelly (Pogo)

“The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’” — Grace Hopper

“Algorithms are opinions embedded in code.” — Cathy O’Neil

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—and also misinformation, poor UX design, and unread terms of service.” — Modern Anonymous

“Creativity takes courage.” — Henri Matisse

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that.” — Howard Thurman

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” — Edgar Degas

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou

“Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.” — Woodrow Wilson

“Dare to be naïve.” — Buckminster Fuller

“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” — Alfred Hitchcock

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent van Gogh

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” — Pablo Picasso

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein

“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

“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” — Robert Jordan

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” — Walter Elliot

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling

“Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever.” — Joel Osteen

“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel deeply, you hurt, but you choose to grow.” — Yasmin Mogahed

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult

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

“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails.” — Elizabeth Edwards

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil

“We curate our lives around things that will make us look good, rather than around things that truly make us happy.” — Anna Sale

“Your phone is not your friend—it’s your dopamine dealer.” — Johann Hari

“We’re not addicted to smartphones—we’re addicted to social validation.” — Nir Eyal

“The average person checks their phone 96 times a day. What are we so afraid of missing?” — Cal Newport

“Scrolling is the new smoking.” — Dr. Anna Lembke

“We’ve trained a generation to believe that silence is awkward and solitude is lonely.” — Sherry Turkle

“The algorithm doesn’t know you—it knows your behavior. And it rewards what keeps you watching.” — Tristan Harris

“You don’t own your data—you rent it, and the landlord sells your habits to advertisers.” — Dave Eggers

“Likes are the currency of insecurity.” — Jon Ronson

“We measure our worth in engagement metrics—but no one’s life fits inside a metric.” — Jenny Odell

“The attention economy isn’t neutral—it’s designed to hijack your nervous system.” — Nicholas Carr

“Confidence is quiet. Insecurity is loud.” — Emma Watson

“Still waters run deep.” — English proverb

“The most powerful people are often the quietest ones in the room.” — Unknown

“True confidence is not ‘I think I can.’ It’s ‘I know I can—and I don’t need to prove it.’” — Unknown

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” — Francis Bacon

“People who are truly strong are gentle, kind, and calm—not because they have to be, but because they choose to be.” — Unknown

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” — Ram Dass

“Confidence is not ‘they will like me.’ Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t.’” — Christina Grimmie

“Strength does not shout. Strength listens. Strength waits. Strength chooses.” — Unknown

“The most confident people don’t need applause—they’re already full.” — Unknown

“Stillness is not emptiness—it’s presence fully embodied.” — Pico Iyer

“You don’t need to be the loudest to be the most respected.” — Unknown

“It takes 21 days to form a habit—but research shows it actually averages 66 days.” — Phillippa Lally et al., University College London

“People who write down goals are 42% more likely to achieve them.” — Dominican University study

“Employees who receive regular feedback are 3.6x more likely to be engaged.” — Gallup

“Walking just 22 minutes a day reduces all-cause mortality risk by 24%.” — British Journal of Sports Medicine

“Teams that practice active listening report 40% higher decision-making accuracy.” — MIT Human Dynamics Lab

“Students who self-test recall 50% more information than those who reread.” — Psychological Science

“Companies with diverse leadership teams outperform peers by 36% in profitability.” — McKinsey & Company

“Just 10 minutes of daily mindfulness improves focus and reduces stress biomarkers by 17%.” — Harvard Medical School

“Remote workers report 22% higher productivity—but only when given autonomy and clear outcomes.” — Stanford University

“Teams with psychological safety are 2.3x more innovative.” — Google’s Project Aristotle

“Sleeping 7–9 hours nightly correlates with 30% lower risk of depression and anxiety.” — JAMA Internal Medicine

“Gratitude journaling 3x/week increases long-term happiness by 10%—equivalent to doubling income.” — UC Davis research

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” — Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.” — Rumi

“The stars are not wanted now: put out every one.” — W.H. Auden

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi

“And still, I rise.” — Maya Angelou

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” — Dylan Thomas

“Tend the fire that warms your soul—not the one that burns your name.” — Unknown

“You were born at the right time, in the right body, with the right breath—now begin.” — Nayyirah Waheed

“This is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.” — Unknown

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats

“You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.” — Alan Watts