1. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
2. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
3. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
4. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
5. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A. Edison
6. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein
7. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth
8. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith
9. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs
10. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca
11. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
12. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford
13. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”– Ernest Hemingway
14. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”– Frank Sinatra
15. “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – (Attributed to various sources)
16. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
17. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard
18. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
19. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
20. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” —Dolly Patron
21. “Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” — Hillary Clinton.
22. "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." -Oprah Winfrey
23. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
24. “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” – Joss Whedon
25. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
26. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” – Mary Kay Ash
27. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
28. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
29. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” – Unknown
30. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
31. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
32. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
33. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
34. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
35. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
36. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer
37. “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
38. “Develop an ‘Attitude of Gratitude’. Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.” – Brian Tracy
39. “To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.” – Confucius
40. “The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!” – Brian Tracy
41. “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” – Jack Canfield
42. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
43. “I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” – Michael Phelps
44. “One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.” – Michelle Obama
45. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
46. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” – Brian Tracy
47. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
48. “The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” – Unknown
49. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
50. “People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” – Unknown
51. “Every successful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” ― K’wan
52. “Work like there is someone working twenty four hours a day to take it away from you.” – Mark Cuban
53. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer
54. “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
55. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
56. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
57. “If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer
58. “I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” – Michelle Obama
59. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
60. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr
61. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
62. “Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.” – Benjamin Hardy
63. “Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.” – Leah LaBelle
64. “If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” – Kenneth Goldsmith
65. “At any given moment you have the power to say: this is not how the story is going to end.” – Unknown
66. “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. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
67. “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine
68. “Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.” – Unknown
69. “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” – Anne Frank
70. “Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.” – Garrison Keillor
71. “Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful.” – Unknown
72. “When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” – John F Kennedy
73. “Good. Better. Best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” – St. Jerome
74. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” – Thomas J. Watson
75. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
76. “To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.” – Summer Sanders
77. “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett
78. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
79. “Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.” – Yuri Kochiyama
80. “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing the monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C.S. Lewis
81. “I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it.” – Estee Lauder
82. “If you’re too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.” – Susan Fales-Hill
83. “Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” – Helen Keller
84. “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” – Hillary Clinton
85. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” – Chantal Sutherland
86. “A walk to a nearby park may give you more energy and inspiration in life than spending two hours in front of a screen.” – Tsang Lindsay
87. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
88. “The only thing standing in the way between you and your goal is the BS story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
89. “Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.” – Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles"
90. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
91. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
92. “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
93. “We’re on the brink of adventure, children. Don’t spoil it with questions.” – Mary Poppins
94. “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.” – The Lion King
95. “The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.” – Pirates of the Caribbean
96. “Remember you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine.” – Snow White
97. “A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make’ – The Greatest Showman
98. “Cause the grass is greener under me bright as technicolor, I can tell that you can see” – Sorry Not Sorry, Demi Lovato
99. “Every day women and men become legends” – Glory, John Legend and Common
100. “On my own I will just create and if it works, it works. And if it doesn’t, I’ll just create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.” – Oprah Winfrey