I like to keep quotes for inspiration. I don't know if they help or not, but I like to think they do.
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." ~ Napolean Hill
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." ~ Michael Altshuler
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"When you are in the rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, make sure you have a good story to tell." ~ Amal Clooney
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open." ~ John Barrymore
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." ~ Colin R. Davis
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ~ Malala Yousafzai or C. S. Lewis - conflicting information"If you
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." — Herman Melville
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses." ~ Abraham Lincoln
“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.” ~ Lady Gaga
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.” ~ Mandy Hale
"She is clothed with strength and dignity and she laughs without fear of the future." ~ Proverbs 31:25
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” ~ Robin Williams (as John Keating) in Dead Poets Society
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ~ Dale Carnegie
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket." ~ Will Rogers
"We can't become what we want to be by remaining what we are." ~ Extramadness.com
"My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember what I forgot to do." ~ Unknown
"You don't stop dancing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop dancing." ~ A Better Me on Facebook
“Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment.” ~ Marianne Cantwell
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” ~ Estée Lauder
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” ~ Serena Williams
"Failure is not the opposite of success, it is part of success." ~ Unknown
"Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable." ~ Unknown
“Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.” ~ Marlee Matlin
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” ~ Will Rogers
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." ~ Oscar Wilde
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." ~ Dolly Parton
"Never miss a good opportunity to shut up." ~ Unknown
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." ~ Maya Angelou
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” ~ Vernon Sanders Law
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot
“Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied.” ~ Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson
"It always seems impossible until it's done." ~ Nelson Mandela
"Not everyone has to like you. Not everyone has taste." ~ Unknown
"Either you run the day or the day runs you." ~ Jim Rohn
"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." ~ Tony Robbins
"You are the artist of your own life. Don't hand the paintbrush to anyone else." ~ Unknown
"An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus and keep aiming." ~ Unknown
"Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you." ~ Beyoncé
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." ~ Thomas Edison
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else." ~ Margaret Mead
"Be stronger than your excuses." ~ Unknown
"My mission: to be so busy loving my life that I have no time for hate, regret, worry, fret, or fear." ~ Loubis & Champagne
"There's nothing more powerful than not giving a f*ck" ~ Amy Schumer
"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." ~ Roseann Barr
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." ~ Will Rogers
"If it doesn't open, it's not your door." ~ Unknown
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." ~ Margaret Thatcher
"If you continue to think what you've always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got." ~ Kevin Trudeau
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." ~ C.S. Lewis
"Childhood is like being drunk. Everyone remembers what you did, except you..." ~ Unknown
"You have to be where you are to get where you need to go." ~ Amy Poehler
"One man with courage makes a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
"Do not go where the path my lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." ~ Maggie Kuhn
"Always be careful of what you hear about a woman. Rumors either come from a man that can't have her or a woman that can't compete with her." ~ Unknown
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined." ~ Toni Morrison
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." ~ David Brinkley
"It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself." ~ Francis Bacon
"If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough." ~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
"Always remember, your focus determines your reality." ~ George Lucas
"The only journey is the one within." ~ Raina Maria Rilke
"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs, one step at a time." ~ Joe Girard
"Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears." ~ Bobby Unser
"Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up." ~ Brene Brown
"Be so good they can't ignore you." ~ Steve Martin
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing; that's why we recommend it daily." ~ Zig Ziglar
"Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time." ~ Charles Dickens
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." ~ Suzy Kassem
"Follow your heart, but take your brain with you." ~ Unknown
"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number." ~ Unknown
"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." ~ Coco Chanel
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." ~ Mae West
"I'm thankful for my struggle because without it I wouldn't have stumbled across my strength." ~ Alex Elle
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." ~ Oscar Wilde
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." ~ Dalai Lama
"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Some things have to end for better things to begin." ~ Unknown
"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." ~ Helen Keller
"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." ~ Farrah Gray
"The sky is full of stars and there's room for them all to shine." ~ Unknown
"Some women fear the fire. Some women simply become it." ~ R. H. Sin
"When you can't look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark." ~ Alice in Wonderland
"Just one small, positive thought in the morning can change your whole day." ~ Dalai Lama
"Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." ~ Lolly Daskal
'Don't wish for it. Work for it." ~ Unknown
"We can not become what we want by remaining what we are." ~ Max Depree
"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality." ~ Les Brown
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"You didn't come this far to only come this far." ~ Unknown
"I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself." ~ Albert Einstein
"I will remember and recover, not forgive and forget." ~ Dalai Lama
"If you're not positive energy, you're negative energy." ~ Mark Cuban
"The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday." ~ Matty Mullens
" People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be." ~ Harvey Mackay
"The grass is greener where you water it." ~ Unknown
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes." ~ William James
"I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship." ~ Michelle Williams
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"It's a slow process, but quitting won't speed it up." ~ Unknown
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than the things I haven't done." ~ Lucille Ball
"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." ~ Michael John Bobak
"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory." ~ Dr. Seuss
"Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon, they shine when it's their time." ~ Unknown
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." ~ Zig Ziglar
"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless it's roots reach down to hell." ~ Carl Jung
"Die with memories, not dreams." ~ Unknown
"You know what it takes to make a star shine? A Sh*tload of f*cking darkness." ~ Brene Brown
""Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working." ~ Pablo Picasso
"If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"The secret to getting ahead is getting started." ~ Mark Twain
"Trust the timing of your life." ~ Unknown
"I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes." ~ Barbara Elaine Smith
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." ~ Mark Twain
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"If it costs you your peace, then it's too expensive." ~ Unknown
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." ~ Warren Buffet
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~ Winston Churchill
"When something is important en0ugh, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." ~ Elon Musk
"Create a life you don't need a vacation from." ~ Unknown
"What you do speaks so loudly that I can not hear what you say." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." ~ Maya Angelou
"There is no excuse for not trying." ~ Barack Obama
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." ~ Mark Twain
"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." ~ Henrik Ibsen
"We are not our best intentions. We are what we do." ~ Amy Dickinson
"Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path." ~ Unknown
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse." ~ Jim Rohn
"Dead people receive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude." ~ Anne Frank
"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." ~ H. Jackson Brown
"If you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done." ~ Unknown
"Live out of your imagination, not your history." ~ Stephen Covey
"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." ~ Buddha
"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make." ~ Les Brown
"Taking care of myself doesn't mean "me first," it means "me too"." ~ L.R. Knosts
"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already on stage." ~ Unknown
"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." ~ Bob Marley
"But the fact is there is nothing ordinary about you. You have a fingerprint that nobody else has." ~ Joel Olsteen
"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can't hear them anymore." ~ Michele Ruiz
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it." ~ Epicuris
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." ~ Buddha
"Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself." ~ Unknown
"Invest in yourself. It pays the best interest." ~ Unknown
"Worry is a misuse of imagination." ~ Unknown
"No good deed goes unpunished." ~ Oscar Wilde
"In the future there will be no female leaders. There will be just leaders." ~ Sheryl Sandberg
"Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Especially not yourself." ~ Mindy Kaling
"If I ever let my head down it will be just to admire my shoes." ~ Samantha Joy
"Women are like teabags, we don't know our strength until we are in hot water." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Your current situation is not your final destination." ~ Unknown
"Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful." ~ Sofia Loren
"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms." ~ Hannah Lavon
"Strong women wear their pain like they do stiletto's. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it." ~ Unknown
"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls." ~ Audrey Hepburn
"It's okay to cry when there's too much on your mind. The clouds rain when they get too heavy too." ~ Unknown
"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission." ~ Grace Hopper
"I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be yourself." ~ Emma Stone
"You only live once. You might as well be a badass." ~ Unknown
"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." ~ Charlotte Witton
"In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to yell." ~ Luvvie Ajayi
"A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye, and gives it a wink." ~ Gina Carey
"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants." ~ Coco Chanel
"There's something special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer." ~ Rihanna
"Don't let the concept of change scare you as much as the prospect of remaining unhappy." ~ Inspirational Quotes Magazine
"Keep your heels, head, and standards high." ~ Coco Chanel
"There were times I was underestimated a lot. It gave me a unique benefit." ~ Elaine Welteroth
"Make a fairytale and go live in it." ~ Unknown
"The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point." ~ Shonda Rhimes
"Be brave enough to be bad at something new." ~ Unknown
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank
"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does." ~ Serena Williams
"You've always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself." ~ Glinda (Wizard of Oz)
"If fighting for women's healthcare and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the women's card, then deal me in." ~ Hillary Clinton
"If you don't let the past die, then it won't let you live." ~ Unknown
"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself." ~ Coco Chanel
"'No' today doesn't mean 'no' tomorrow." ~ Yvonne Orji
"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else." ~ Unknown
"I can do anything when I am in a tutu." ~ Misty Copeland
"Don't trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar." ~ Unknown
"No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth." ~ Martha Beck
"We need to get women to the point where they aren't apologizing. It's time to take ownership in our success." ~ Tori Burch
"You deserve the love you give to everyone else." ~ Unknown
"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself." ~ Virginia Woolf
"You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong." ~ Sue Fitzmaurice
"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in." ~ Hillary Clinton
"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength." ~ Unknown
"You're going to walk into many rooms where you may be the only one who looks like you or who has had the experiences you've had. So you use that voice and be strong." ~ Kamala Harris
"Growth is growth. No matter how small." ~ Unknown
"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you." ~ Stephanie Bennett Henry
"Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder." ~ Sheryl Sandberg
"Create a life you don't need a vacation from." ~ Unknown
"One of the first steps of happiness is deciding that you want to be happy and knowing what that means." ~ Julia Roberts
"I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one." ~ Calamity Jane
"You will not determine my story. I will." ~ Amy Schumer
"When someone else's happiness is your happiness, that is love." Lana Del Ray
I have learned a lot of lessons in life. The one lesson that I've learned that I think means the most is to learn from other people's mistakes. If you learn from other people's mistakes, that is just another mistake you don't have to make yourself.
~BGBW
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