The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Amelia Earhart

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Jane Smiley

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

Francis Chan

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Thomas Fuller

Kites rise highest against the wind- not with it.

Winston Churchill

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

There are no mistakes, only opportunities.

Tina Fey

Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.

Malcolm X

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Thoreau

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

George Washington Carver

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Swami Sivananda

Success is boring… failure is exciting and more entertaining.

Anupam Kher

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

Andy Rooney

Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Gautam Buddha

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

Manny Pacquiao

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Dale Carnegie

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

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

Confucius

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Friedrich Schiller

The starting point of all achievement is Desire.

Napoleon Hill

Today is a good day to let go of yesterday.

Thema Bryant Davis

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

T. S. Eliot

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, She became a butterfly.

Barbara Haines Howett

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

James Cash Penney

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Herman Cain

A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Bruce Lee

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Henry James

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Marquis de Condorcet

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

Amy Poehler

Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.

Dennis Waitley

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J. K. Rowling

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

Don’t be so humble – you’re not that great.

Golda Meir

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions… Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Ravindranath Tagore

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

St. Francis

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln

If you wake up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance.

Andrew Boydston