1. “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates
2. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts
3. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
― Steve Maraboli
4. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz
5. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
6. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London
7. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― Babe Ruth
8. “Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
― Leo Buscaglia
9. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
― C. JoyBell C.
10. “All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
11. “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
― David Richo
12. “You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”
― Lou Holtz
13. “There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
14. “I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
― Albert Einstein
15. “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther
16. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
17. Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
― Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium
18. You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.”
― Lou Holtz
19. “When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on”
― Theodore Roosevelt
20. “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
21. “The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
― Ernest Hemingway
22. “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”
― Tricia Cunningham
23. “Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”
― Christine Feehan, Night Game
24. “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
― George Lucas
25. “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison
26. “Take it easy, but take it.”
― Woody Guthrie
27. “Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”
― Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
28. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”
― Paul Brandt
29. “Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.”
― Robert Collier
30. “Ideas come from everything”
― Alfred Hitchcock
31. “In case you never get a second chance: don’t be afraid!” “And what if you do get a second chance?” “You take it!”
― C. JoyBell C.
32. “Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.”
― Jessica Howell
33. “If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”
― John Mayer
34. “What we do comes out of who we believe we are.”
― Rob Bell
35. “You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
― Roman Payne
36. “Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.”
― Turcois Ominek
37. “Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”
― Jack Welch
38. “Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven’t done”
― Chad Michael Murray
39. Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. “Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
― Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
41. “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
42. “I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.”
― Amit Kalantri
43. “Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will”
― Jack Welch
44. “Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”
― Isabel Allende, The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir
45. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
― Christopher Reeve
46. “Hope costs nothing. ”
― Colette
47. “Chase your dreams until you catch them…and then dream, catch, and dream again! ”
― Dee Marie, Sons of Avalon: Merlin’s Prophecy
48. “Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.”
― John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
49. “If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”
― Oscar Wilde
50. “Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
51. “A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.”
― Ray A. Davis
