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Success

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” — Booker T. Washington

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” — David Frost

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis

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

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” — W.P. Kinsella

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” — Florence Nightingale

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” — Mark Twain

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” — George S. Patton

“I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” — Robert Collier

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton

Love

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” — Aristotle

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

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” — David Wilkerson

“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” — Franklin P. Jones

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” — William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” — Dr. Seuss

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” — Eden Ahbez

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” — Robert Frost

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A. Heinlein

“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” — Jodi Picoult

“Love is not about how many days, months, or years you’ve been together. It’s about how much you love each other every day.” — Unknown

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.” — Blaise Pascal

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

Wisdom

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle

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

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein

“It is not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.” — Terry Pratchett

“In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second is listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth teaching others.” — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” — Doug Larson

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” — Voltaire

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” — Maurice Switzer

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” — Paulo Coelho

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” — Thomas Jefferson

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” — William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Happiness

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

“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

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” — Thucydides

“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” — Unknown

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” — Mark Twain

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” — John Lennon

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.” — Joseph Addison

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” — Dale Carnegie

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” — Audrey Hepburn

“Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.” — Unknown

“Happiness is a warm puppy.” — Charles M. Schulz

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” — John Barrymore

“Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.” — John Harrigan

Time

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” — William Penn

“Lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Time is the wisest counselor of all.” — Pericles

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” — Albert Einstein

“You may delay, but time will not.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’” — Lao Tzu

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.” — Stephen King

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” — Theophrastus

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” — William Shakespeare

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” — Buddha

“Time and tide wait for no man.” — Geoffrey Chaucer

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” — Marthe Troly-Curtin

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” — Andy Warhol

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” — Mother Teresa

“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” — Bill Watterson

“Time brings all things to pass.” — Aeschylus

“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” — Stephen R. Covey

Change

“Change is the only constant in life.” — Heraclitus

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

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” — Albert Einstein

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” — Gail Sheehy

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” — Steve Maraboli

“Change before you have to.” — Jack Welch

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Charles Darwin

“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” — Mandy Hale

“Nothing endures but change.” — Heraclitus

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” — Albert Einstein

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” — John C. Maxwell

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor E. Frankl

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” — Harriet Tubman

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.” — Alan Cohen

Ambition

“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” — Frank Tyger

“The ambitious are forever followed by adversity for it is the pursuit of ambition that challenges the world.” — Montesquieu

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” — Salvador Dalí

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” — Mark Twain

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” — Elvis Presley

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” — Bill Bradley

“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.” — Oscar Wilde

“The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition.” — John D. Rockefeller

“Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” — Bryant H. McGill

“Ambition beats genius 99% of the time.” — Jay Leno

“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.” — Buddha

“A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.” — Marcus Aurelius

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” — Maya Angelou

“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.” — Thomas Otway

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.” — Oscar Wilde

“Ambition never comes to an end.” — Kenneth Kaunda

“Ambition is the epicenter of perseverance and the ignition point of all dreams.” — Anonymous

“A person with no ambition is like a bird without wings.” — Anonymous

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.” — Barack Obama

Art

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton

“Every artist was first an amateur.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” — Pablo Picasso

“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” — Twyla Tharp

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

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” — Aristotle

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” — Kurt Vonnegut

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” — Theodore Dreiser

“Creativity takes courage.” — Henri Matisse

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” — Émile Zola

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — Banksy

“Art is not a thing, it is a way.” — Elbert Hubbard

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

“A work of art is a scream of freedom.” — Christo

“Art speaks where words are unable to explain.” — Unknown

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” — Pablo Picasso

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” — Charles Horton Cooley

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” — Oscar Wilde

“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” — Alberto Giacometti

Courage

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” — Ambrose Redmoon

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings

“Courage is grace under pressure.” — Ernest Hemingway

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” — Mary Anne Radmacher

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” — Aristotle

“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” — John Wayne

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” — Coco Chanel

“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” — Raymond Lindquist

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

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” — Steve Jobs

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” — Bethany Hamilton

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“One man with courage makes a majority.” — Andrew Jackson

“It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.” — C.S. Lewis

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain

Failure

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison

“Failure is a part of success.” — Arianna Huffington

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford

“There is no failure. Only feedback.” — Robert Allen

“What defines us is how well we rise after falling.” — Lionel Ritchie

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote

“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

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

“Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” — Arianna Huffington

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” — Elbert Hubbard

“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite a lot from failure.” — John Keats

“Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” — Morihei Ueshiba

“Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.” — Michael Jordan

“Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.” — Zig Ziglar

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” — Nikki Giovanni

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.” — Zig Ziglar

Friendship

“Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.” — John Evelyn

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Good friends are like stars; you don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” — Unknown

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson

“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t yet met.” — William Butler Yeats

“A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.” — Unknown

“Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.” — Edna Buchanan

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

“A true friend is someone who is there for you when they’d rather be anywhere else.” — Len Wein

“Friendship is not about who you have known the longest; it’s about who came and never left your side.” — Unknown

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The best mirror is an old friend.” — George Herbert

Gratitude

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” — Aesop

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” — William Arthur Ward

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” — Dalai Lama

“Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Gratitude is the best attitude.” — Unknown

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” — Ralph H. Blum

“Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion.” — Thomas Hardy

“The more grateful you are, the more you will receive things to be grateful for.” — Zig Ziglar

“Gratitude is the open door to abundance.” — Unknown

“Let gratitude be your default emotion.” — Unknown

“Start each day with a grateful heart.” — Unknown

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” — Melody Beattie

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.” — Melody Beattie

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” — Cicero

Leadership

“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

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

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” — Tony Blair

“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

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” — Peter Drucker

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” — Jack Welch

“Leadership is not a position or a title; it is action and example.” — Cory Booker

“Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people.” — Simon Sinek

“You don’t need a title to be a leader.” — Unknown

“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.” — Kenneth H. Blanchard

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” — John Maxwell

“The greatest leader is not the one who has the most followers, but the one who creates the most leaders.” — Unknown

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Fear

“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” — Japanese Proverb

“Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller

“The only limits in life are the ones you make.” — Unknown

“Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.” — Philip Gulley

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” — Plato

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” — Winston Churchill

“Fear is temporary. Regret is forever.” — Unknown

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” — Jack Canfield

“To overcome fear is the first step to success.” — Unknown

“The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost

“Fear is your only enemy.” — Unknown

“Fear does not stop death; it stops life.” — Victor Hugo

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky

“Face your fears or they will face you.” — Unknown

“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.” — Stephen King

Dreams

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” — Unknown

“Dreams are not what you see in sleep; dreams are things which do not let you sleep.” — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“Your dreams are the blueprint of your life.” — Unknown

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself.” — Tony Robbins

“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” — Colin Powell

“Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

“Your dreams are valid.” — Lupita Nyong’o

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson

“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.” — Tony Robbins

“You cannot put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” — Michael Phelps

Knowledge

“Knowledge is the new currency.” — Unknown

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” — Lao Tzu

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” — Voltaire

“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Confucius

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” — Doug Larson

“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” — Aristotle

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.” — Unknown

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.” — Kofi Annan

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” — Unknown

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin

“The only source of knowledge is experience.” — Albert Einstein

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” — B.B. King

“Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.” — Unknown

Perseverance

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

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” — Vince Lombardi

“It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb

“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” — Will Rogers

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” — Julie Andrews

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

“It always seems impossible until it is done.” — Nelson Mandela

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent Van Gogh

“If you are going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” — James N. Watkins

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” — Newt Gingrich“Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.” — Unknown

Trust

“Trust is built with consistency.” — Lincoln Chafee

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” — George MacDonald

“Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.” — Frank Sonnenberg

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” — Ernest Hemingway

“Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” — Unknown

“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication.” — Stephen Covey

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” — Benjamin Spock

“You can’t trust a person who doesn’t have a real identity.” — Unknown

“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.” — David Gemmell

“Trust is the foundation of any relationship.” — Unknown

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” — George MacDonald

“Trust is the bridge to a stronger bond.” — Unknown

“Trust is earned, not given.” — Unknown

“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” — Warren Bennis

“A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.” — Baltasar Gracián

Resilience

“Resilience is not about avoiding stress but about learning to thrive within it.” — Unknown

“The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about.” — Unknown

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient.” — Steve Maraboli

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein

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

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” — Bob Marley

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” — Elizabeth Edwards

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” — Dolly Parton

“It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.” — Zig Ziglar

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

“Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility.” — Unknown

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Robert H. Schuller

“Life doesn’t get easier, you just get stronger.” — Unknown

Passion

“Passion is the fuel, and purpose is the engine.” — Unknown

“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” — Dhirubhai Ambani

“Do what you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” — Marc Anthony

“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.” — Oprah Winfrey

“People with passion can change the world for the better.” — Steve Jobs

“Passion is the genesis of genius.” — Tony Robbins

“Passion is not the same as enthusiasm.” — David Foster Wallace

“If you can’t find it, create it.” — Unknown

“Passion is the difference between having a job and having a career.” — Unknown

“Let your passion become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.” — Gabrielle Bernstein

“When you are passionate about something, it becomes a joy, not a job.” — Unknown

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” — Jennifer Lee

Freedom

“Freedom is never given; it is won.” — A. Philip Randolph

“Freedom lies in being bold.” — Robert Frost

“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.” — Thucydides

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.” — Unknown

“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.” — Moshe Dayan

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali

“Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.” — Bob Marley

“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Freedom is not a gift; it’s a right.” — Unknown

“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Let freedom ring!” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.” — William Wells Brown“Freedom is the most important thing in life.” — Unknown

Kindness

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop

“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” — Mark Twain

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” — William Arthur Ward

“Kindness is free; sprinkle that stuff everywhere.” — Unknown

“Acts of kindness ripple outward, touching lives you may never know.” — Unknown

“One kind word can change someone’s entire day.” — Unknown

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.” — Prophet Muhammad

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Kindness is the essence of greatness.” — John Wooden

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world, no matter what you look like.” — Unknown

“A little kindness goes a long way.” — Unknown

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” — Dalai Lama

Experience

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde

“The only source of knowledge is experience.” — Albert Einstein

“Experience is the teacher of all things.” — Julius Caesar

“There is no substitute for experience.” — Unknown

“The experience of life is what we need, not just the knowledge.” — Unknown

“Your experiences are the stories of your life.” — Unknown

“Wisdom comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” — Barry LePatner

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” — Aristotle

“The best experiences are often the ones that scare you the most.” — Unknown

“Life is about experiences, not things.” — Unknown

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” — Vernon Sanders Law

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” — Aldous Huxley

“Every experience is a lesson.” — Unknown

“Experience teaches you how to do it right the next time.” — Unknown

Perspective

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin

“The way we see the problem is the problem.” — Stephen Covey

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.” — Jodi Hills

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Wayne Dyer

“There are no facts, only interpretations.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.” — Shannon L. Alder

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” — Robertson Davies

“Perspective is not just a view; it’s how you frame your world.” — Unknown

“Sometimes, the most productive thing you can do is relax.” — Mark Black

“To change your perspective, change your position.” — Unknown

“Life is all about perspective; the choice is yours.” — Unknown

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” — Betty Smith

“How you see things depends on where you look at them from.” — Unknown“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” — Alan Kay

Growth

“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” — Jean Vanier

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.” — Unknown

“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” — Mandy Hale

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn

“Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but unlearning old limits.” — Alan Cohen

“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” — Max DePree

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill

“In every success story, you will find someone who has made courageous decisions.” — Peter F. Drucker

“Growth is the only evidence of life.” — John Henry Newman

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” — Albert Einstein

“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” — John F. Kennedy

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.” — Lao Tzu

“Change is the catalyst for growth.” — Unknown

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein

Simplicity

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.” — Walt Whitman

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.” — William Golding

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” — Coco Chanel

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.” — Albert Einstein

“Simplicity is the essence of happiness.” — Cedric Bledsoe

“In the end, simplicity is the best solution.” — Michael Smith

“Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” — Austin Freeman

“The simplest things are often the truest.” — Richard Bach

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“Simplicity is the foundation of our thinking.” — Unknown

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” — Isaac Newton

“Simplicity is a state of mind.” — Unknown

“Simplicity is the key to success.” — Unknown

Empathy

“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” — Mohsin Hamid

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” — Mother Teresa

“Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.” — Alfred Adler

“No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.” — Max Carver

“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” — Maya Angelou

“The highest form of knowledge is empathy.” — Bill Bullard

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” — Nelson Mandela

“Empathy is about being concerned with the feelings and experiences of another person.” — Unknown

“We have to talk about the things that matter to us; we have to feel.” — Chris Evans

“The greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.” — Meryl Streep

“I think empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.” — Roger Ebert

“To understand others, we must first understand ourselves.” — Unknown

“Empathy is not just about feeling; it’s about action.” — Unknown

Legacy

“Your legacy is every life you have ever touched.” — Maya Angelou

“Legacy is not what I did for myself. It’s what I’m doing for the next generation.” — Vitor Hugo

“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” — William James

“A man’s legacy is determined by what he does for others.” — Unknown

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pine

“Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make sure you’re writing it good.” — Unknown

“You can’t leave a legacy if you don’t have a vision.” — Unknown

“The legacy you leave is the life you lead.” — Unknown

“Our children are our legacy. We cannot turn back time.” — Unknown

“It’s not about what you leave behind, but how you’ve lived.” — Unknown

“The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” — Unknown

“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“You don’t have to be great to leave a legacy, but you do have to care.” — Unknown

“A legacy is not something you leave behind; it’s something you create in the hearts of others.” — Unknown

“The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.” — Thomas B. Macaulay

Creativity

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein

“Every artist was first an amateur.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Creativity takes courage.” — Henri Matisse

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

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

“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” — Albert Einstein

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

“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” — Dorothy Parker

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London

“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.” — Claude Debussy

“Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.” — Brené Brown

“You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself.” — Barbara Corcoran

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams

“In every work of art, the spirit of the artist lives.” — Unknown

“Creativity is not a talent, it’s a way of operating.” — John Cleese

“Originality is the art of concealing your source.” — Franklin P. Adams

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” — Pablo Picasso

“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.” — Tony Robbins

“Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.” — John F. Kennedy

“Creativity is not a competition; it’s a collaboration.” — Unknown

Leadership

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

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

“Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.” — Unknown

“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

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” — Jack Welch

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you can articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.” — Theodore M. Hesburgh

“Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” — Brian Tracy

“Good leaders inspire others with confidence in them; great leaders inspire others with confidence in themselves.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln

“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” — John Maxwell

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” — John F. Kennedy

“You don’t need a title to be a leader.” — Unknown

Collaboration

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” — Henry Ford

“Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves.” — Paul Solarz

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.” — Andrew Carnegie

“Collaboration is the new competition.” — Unknown

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” — Phil Jackson

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford

“The magic happens in the collaboration.” — Unknown

“Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs

“Collaborate with others and make the most of the resources you have.” — Unknown

“Collaboration breeds innovation.” — Unknown

“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Ken Blanchard

“Working together is a success that can’t be measured.” — Unknown

“Success is best when it’s shared.” — Howard Schultz

“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.” — Virginia Burden

Self-care

“Self-care is how you take your power back.” — Lalah Delia

“You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.” — Unknown

“Taking care of yourself doesn’t mean me first. It means me too.” — L.R. Knost

“Self-care is not a luxury. It is a necessity.” — Audre Lorde

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.” — Audre Lorde

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” — Sophia Bush

“Self-care is how you take your power back.” — Lalah Delia

“You can’t heal a wound by saying it’s not there.” — Unknown

“Nourish your body and soul with good thoughts and self-love.” — Unknown

“Self-care is not selfish; it’s essential.” — Unknown

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” — Jim Rimpin

“Invest in yourself. You are worth it.” — Unknown

“You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison

“Taking care of yourself is part of taking care of others.” — Unknown

“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.” — Pierre Corneille

Change

“Change is the only constant in life.” — Heraclitus

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill

“Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” — Albert Einstein

“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” — Robin Sharma

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Change before you have to.” — Jack Welch

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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

“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” — John C. Maxwell

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” — Tim Ferriss

“If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.” — Unknown

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” — Simone de Beauvoir

Wisdom

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” — William Shakespeare

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” — Socrates

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix

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

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch

“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Confucius

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” — Mark Twain

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“Wisdom is the ability to make the right decision at the right time.” — Unknown

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.” — Unknown

Acceptance

“Acceptance is the key to all my problems.” — John H. Wood

“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.” — Michael J. Fox

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

“When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you.” — Lao Tzu

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair

“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” — Steve Maraboli

“Whatever you cannot accept, you will make suffer.” — Eckhart Tolle

“The first step toward change is awareness. The second is acceptance.” — Nathaniel Branden

“Acceptance is the road to all change.” — Unknown

“When you accept yourself, you are freed from the worst kind of burden.” — Unknown

“There is nothing more freeing than letting go of everything that isn’t you.” — Unknown

“What you resist persists.” — Carl Jung

“Acceptance is not about liking what is happening; it is about allowing it to be.” — Unknown

“Accept the present moment as if you had chosen it.” — Eckhart Tolle

“Acceptance is the gateway to peace.” — Unknown

Faith

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” — C.S. Lewis

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” — Hebrews 11:1

“Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.” — Elisabeth Elliot

“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.” — Elton Trueblood

“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.” — Unknown

“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” — Rabindranath Tagore

“Your faith can move mountains.” — Matthew 17:20

“The greatest faith is faith in yourself.” — Unknown

“Faith is about trusting God even when you don’t understand His plan.” — Unknown

“Let your faith be bigger than your fear.” — Unknown

“Faith is the bridge between where I am and where I want to be.” — Unknown

“Faith is the assurance that the things we hope for will come to pass.” — Unknown

“In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe.” — Blaise Pascal

“Faith is not a leap in the dark; it is a leap into the light.” — Unknown

“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Your faith is your fortune.” — Thomas Troward

“The stronger your faith, the stronger your destiny.” — Unknown

“Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.” — Corrie ten Boom

“With faith, all things are possible.” — Matthew 17:20