Isn’t it great when you have awesome quotes at hand to inspire you? Even though they don’t seem like much, an awesome quote can brighten your day and inspire you to do great things. Wishes and aspirations are there to remind us that not everything is lost, and to help us go through the tough moments in our life. A good method to overcome difficult times is also to read motivational quotes; which, as trivial as it sounds; may touch some of us and remind us that life goes on. Luckily, we are surrounded by optimistic and positive quotes. We can see them plastered at office halls, schools, and more and more often in private homes. Popular websites and online forums have adopted the ‘quote of the day’ strategy to welcome users, a practice that is currently introduced to print materials such as calendars and journals. Good quotes won’t only inject optimism, but also wisdom. What they aim is to boost the reader’s confidence, and provide him/her with some winning attitude for the day. Relax. The day may be bad, but life isn’t. This is a great quote to keep in mind whenever you feel miserable. And while many of the days to come will probably be more difficult, quotes like this one help we approach them with a stronger spirit and a firmer attitude. The quote helps us realize that feelings are temporary (especially negative ones), and that pain is not invincible. We’re still ‘a good thought away’ from achieving what we want! Many experts focused their research on the impact of motivational quotes. Psychologists, for starter, believe that positive quotes have a lot to do with a positive outlook in life, and that such help people overcome common and day-to-day difficulties. Positive thoughts are a person’s main weapon for controlling negative emotions, and an irreplaceable source of strength in difficult quote. Even when you feel good and nothing seems to go wrong, a motivational quote can help you gather inspiration. As an example, we’ve collected several quotes that can brighten up the day. How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Gabrielle Coco Chanel Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. -Dr. Seuss Imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for. -Oliver James Flatter yourself critically. -Willis Goth Regier Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. -Eleanor Roosevelt Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. -Mahatma Gandhi Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -Cyril Connolly We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. -Virginia Satir Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself. -Steve Maraboli If things go wrong, don’t go with them. -Roger Babson Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are. -Kurt Cobain Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. -Chinese Proverb Where’s your will to be weird? -Jim Morrison Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own. -Angelina Jolie Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck. -Joss Whedon Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. -Oscar Wilde I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. -Sylvia Plath There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anaïs Nin To find yourself, think for yourself. -Socrates If you seek authenticity for authenticity’s sake you are no longer authentic. -Jean Paul Sartre If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. -David Carradine When one is pretending the entire body revolts. -Anaïs Nin Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind. -Dodinsky Do what you must, And your friends will adjust. -Robert Brault Just let awareness have its way with you completely. -Scott Morrison We must be our own before we can be another’s. -Ralph Waldo Emerson This above all: to thine own self be true. -William Shakespeare Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston S. Churchill It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. -Herman Melville The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. -Colin R. Davis Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. -Chris Grosser Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. -John D. Rockefeller I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -Thomas Jefferson There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed. -Ray Goforth Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. -Jim Rohn Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. -Albert Einstein Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. -Winston Churchill Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion. -Tony Hsieh Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite-K. Chesterton 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 If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. -Jim Rohn The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do. -Stive Jobs Do one thing every day that scares you. -Anonymous All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. -Michael John Bobak People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. -Tony Robbins Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. -Robert Kiyosaki If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. -Steve Jobs The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. -Barack Obama The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -Franklin D. Roosevelt Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. -Bruce Lee There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. -Colin Powell Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. -Conrad Hilton If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. -Jim Rohn I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody. -Herbert Bayard Swope 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 isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do. -Unknown Fall seven times and stand up eight. -Japanese Proverb Some people dream of success while others wake up and work. -Unknown If you can dream it, you can do it. -Walt Disney The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do. -Unknown A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him. -David Brinkley In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. -Bill Cosby In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. -Nikos Kazantzakis Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas Edison Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember–the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you. -Zig Ziglar The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. -John D. Rockefeller Jr. You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it. -Oprah Winfrey There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality. -Anthony Robbins The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows. -Aristotle Onassis I failed my way to success. -Thomas Edison I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. -Estee Lauder I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes. -Thomas Edison The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. -Vidal Sassoon Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. -Charles F. Kettering Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. – Unknown You are not your resume, you are your work. – Seth Godin Beware of any enterprise requiring new clothes. – Henry Thoreau One finds limits by pushing them. – Herbert Simon If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late. – James Goldsmith You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. – Warren Buffett The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them. – Seth Godin The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. – Thomas J. Watson Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is. – Seth Godin Even if you are on the right track, You’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. – Francis Gray Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Sr. Thomas Watson Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try. – Unknown The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell. – Andrew Carnegie A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. – Richard Branson We generate fears while we sit. We over come them by action. Fear is natures way of warning us to get busy. – Dr. Henry Link People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want. – Seth Godin Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. – Steve Jobs The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. – Roy L. Smith The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. – Cyril Northcote Parkinson/Parkinson’s Law. I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. – Seth Godin The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Unknown My son is now an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’ Reilly Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day. – Gary Vaynerchuck Victory goes to the player who makes the next–to–last mistake. – Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. – Donald Trump Surviving a failure gives you more self–confidence. Failures are great learning tools… but they must be kept to a minimum. – Jeffrey Immelt To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth The only way around is through. – Robert Frost The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. – John Naisbitt The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules. – Seth Godin To the degree we’re not living our dreams; our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities. – Seth Godin To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller Business in a combination of War and sport. – Andre Maurois To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. – Tony Dorsett Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. – Oscar Wilde All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. – Aristotle Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi There is no security on the earth, there is only opportunity. – General Douglas MacArthur Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. – Unknown Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schutz For maximum attention, nothing beats a good mistake. – Unknown Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. – John Ciardi Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. – Howard Aiken It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. – Ren Mulford Jr. A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor. – Unknown The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. – Bette Midler Your time is precious, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked. – Warren Buffett Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy. – Jim Rohn The NBA is never just a business. It’s always business. It’s always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal. – Mark Cuban Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker. – Seth Godin Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters. – Seth Godin You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place. – Orison Swett Marden To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. – Seth Godin A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from. – Seth Godin I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! – C.J. Walker People are best convinced by things they themselves discover. – Ben Franklin I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it is stupid – Einstein Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. – Harold Geneen Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it. – Chinese Proverb Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. – Napoleon Hill To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. – J. Paul Getty A consultant is someone who takes the watch off your wrist and tells you the time. – Unknown The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. – John Egan If you would like to know the value of money, try to borrow some. – Benjamin Franklin If it really was a no–brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no–brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. – Bill Rancic Get busy living or get busy dying. – from the The Shawshank Redemption Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. – Denis Waitley Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. – Zig Ziglar The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. – Unknown The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. – Debbi Fields Are you a serial idea–starting person? The goal is to be an idea–shipping person. – Seth Godin The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. – Lilly Tomlin Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. – David Rockefeller If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. – Ray Kroc Long–range planning works best in the short term. – Doug Evelyn Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety–nine percent perspiration. – Thomas A. Edison Life is about making an impact, not making an income. –Kevin Kruse Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky I’ve missed more than 9000 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 The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin 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 There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius 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 Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I’m possible! –Audrey Hepburn The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller Creativity about life, in all aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. – Leo Burnett The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. – Edwin Land Whether B2B or B2C, I believe passionately that good marketing essentials are the same. We all are emotional beings looking for relevance, context and connection. – Beth Comstock Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have. – Jonah Sachs Our jobs as marketers are to understand how the customer wants to buy and help them do so. – Bryan Eisenberg Don’t be afraid to get creative and experiment with your marketing. – Mike Volpe If you’re a good marketing person, you have to be a little crazy. – Jim Metcalf The consumer is not a moron; she is your wife. – David Ogilvy Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart. – Joe Chernov Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they’d like to go. – Seth Godin Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it. – Jay Baer People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. – Simon Sinek Today it’s important to be present, be relevant and add value. – Nick Besbeas Great Execution is the Ultimate Differentiator. – Margaret Molloy The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing. – Tom Fishburne Know thyself. Know the customer. Innovate. – Beth Comstock Instead of using technology to automate processes, think about using technology to enhance human interaction. – Tony Zambito If you are an artist, learn science. If you are a scientist, cultivate art. – Karin Timpone We’re all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest. – Josh Bernoff If your stories are all about your products and services, that’s not storytelling. It’s a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger. – Jay Baer Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell. – Seth Godin The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential. – Jonah Sachs You can’t sell anything if you can’t tell anything. – Beth Comstock Speak to your audience in their language about what’s in their heart. – Jonathan Lister I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou Build it, and they will come only works in the movies. Social Media is a build it, nurture it, engage them and they may come and stay. – Seth Godin Social media are tools. Real time is a mindset. – David Meerman Scott Social media is a contact sport. – Margaret Molloy Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers. – Erik Qualman If you get bored with social media, it’s because you are trying to get more value than you create. – Fast Company Social media is about the people. Not about your business. Provide for the people and the people will provide for you. – Matt Goulart Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well. – Ann Handley Content builds relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Trust drives revenue. – Andrew Davis If your content isn’t driving conversation, you’re doing it wrong. – Dan Roth Content is anything that adds value to the reader’s life. – Avinash Kaushik Content should ask people to do something and reward them for it. – Lee Odden My goal is to spark something within the reader and allow it to initiate an idea they then can grow. – Warren Whitlock Don’t settle: Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it. – Chris Brogan Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. – Benjamin Franklin A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is — it is what consumers tell each other it is. – Scott Cook Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points. – Jonah Sachs Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand. – Seth Godin If you can’t explain it to a 6-year old, you don’t know it yourself. – Albert Einstein Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. ― Coco Chanel Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. – Dr. Seuss Never doubt a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead In the long history of humankind those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. – Charles Darwin Marketing’s job is never done. It’s about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day. – Beth Comstock New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look. – Nate Silver I’d rather apologize than to be so timid as to never try to do anything smart or brave. – Lee Clow If you’re not failing now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything innovative. – Woody Allen If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. – Tony Robbins Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. – Henry Ford If you don’t have room to fail, you don’t have room to grow. – Jonathan Mildenhall The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. – Socrates If you’re looking for the next big thing, and you’re looking where everyone else is, you’re looking in the wrong place. – Mark Cuban Be where the world is going. – Beth Comstock Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small. – Tim Ferriss If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you’re a leader. – John Quincy Adams Inspiration doesn’t respond to meeting requests. You can’t schedule greatness. – Jay Baer Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. – Zig Ziglar Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough. – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must. – Seth Godin Bring the best of your authentic self to every opportunity. – John Jantsch Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde Do one thing every day that scares you.― Eleanor Roosevelt People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable? – Seth Godin A year from now, you’ll wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb Do or do not; there is no try. – Yoda The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand Don’t bunt. Aim out of the park. Aim for the company of immortals. – David Ogilvy It’s quite fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. —Mahatma Gandhi Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. —Coco Chanel Courage is grace under pressure. —Ernest Hemingway Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. —Albert Einstein Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. —Ellen DeGeneres It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. —Confucius Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. —Warren Buffett Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. —Dr. Seuss You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. —Mae West Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. —Christopher Reeve There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. —Nelson Mandela The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. —Helen Keller Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. —Mahatma Gandhi The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting. —Walt Disney When you cease to dream you cease to live. —Malcolm Forbes May you live every day of your life. —Jonathan Swift Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. —Oprah Winfrey If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve. —Jeff Bezos In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. —Coco Chanel You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. —Wayne Gretzky The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. —Dolly Parton The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. —Frank Lloyd Wright You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. —Michael Jordan You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you. —Katie Couric I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine. —Neil Armstrong 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 If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything. —Malcolm X The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. —Mark Twain It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. —Abraham Lincoln If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. —William Edward Hickson As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. —Audrey Hepburn If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. —John Quincy Adams If you are going through hell, keep going. —Winston Churchill The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. —Oprah Winfrey A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. —Colin Powell The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. —Mark Zuckerberg Do one thing every day that scares you. —Eleanor Roosevelt The purpose of our lives is to be happy. —Dalai Lama Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. —John D. Rockefeller Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once. —Drew Houston Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. —Ralph Waldo Emerson Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow. —Helen Keller One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. —Mother Teresa Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow. —Jay-Z If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. —Katharine Hepburn All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. —Walt Disney I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. —Charlotte Bronte Don’t count the days, make the days count. —Muhammad Ali Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. —Michael Jordan Life is short, and it is here to be lived. —Kate Winslet Everything you can imagine is real. —Pablo Picasso Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. —Barack Obama It is never too late to be what you might have been. —George Eliot If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. —Steve Wozniak Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. —Maya Angelou In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. —Deepak Chopra I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. —Thomas A. Edison We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness. —Hillary Clinton As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. —Bill Gates There are no mistakes, only opportunities. —Tina Fey (from her book, Bossypants) We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. —Ronald Reagan Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. —Oscar Wilde In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. —Albert Einstein Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. —Nelson Mandela Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. —Steve Jobs But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you’re afraid. —Arianna Huffington When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. —Jimi Hendrix I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. —Maya Angelou If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people. —Leonardo DiCaprio Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. —Michelle Obama It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. —Warren Buffett Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. —George Bernard Shaw The best way of learning about anything is by doing. —Richard Branson Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. —John F. Kennedy Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back. —Babe Ruth Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. —Harriet Tubman What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. —Napoleon Hill A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. —Billie Jean King Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. —Benjamin Franklin If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. —Bill Clinton We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. —Martin Luther King, Jr. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent. —Arnold Schwarzenegger Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come. —Ellen DeGeneres Your voice can change the world. —Barack Obama The more you dream, the farther you get. —Michael Phelps You must do the things you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt Every moment is a fresh beginning. —T.S. Eliot A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. —Bob Dylan If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. —Andrew Carnegie If there is no struggle, there is no progress. —Frederick Douglass Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost (from his poem The Road Not Taken) It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. —J. K Rowling (from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. —Martin Luther King, Jr. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. —Barack Obama If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it. —Elon Musk Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades, bumps, and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested. Have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect, nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK. —Katie Couric Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. —Henry Ford It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. —e. e. cummings Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. —Stephen Hawking Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. —Albert Einstein In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. —Robert Frost If you enjoyed reading this article about awesome quotes, you should read these as well:
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