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2026
- #478
"There was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners." - Margaret Hamilton
- #477
"To be different is great. You don't want to be the same." - Kristen Johnston
- #476
"To take a fine idea and make something great of it... that is what real art is!" - Antonín Dvořák
- #475
"Always make room for the unexpected in yourself." - Steve Martin
- #474
"There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do." - Amy Poehler
- #473
"Habit is persistence in practice." - Octavia Butler
- #472
"If you see someone without a smile today, give 'em yours." - Dolly Parton
- #471
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." - Sylvia Plath
- #470
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne
- #469
"Progress is slow, but little by little my mind is filling up with my story." - Hwang Bo-reum
- #468
"You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try." - Meryl Streep
- #467
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Marthe Troly-Curtin
- #466
"You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice." - Shakira
- #465
"The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed." - Adam Grant
- #464
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." - Joan Didion
- #463
"Great success doesn't come in short periods of time." - J.B. Pritzker
- #462
"You can make anything by writing." - C.S. Lewis
- #461
"Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions." - Megan Smith
- #460
"What we know is a drop; what we don't know is an ocean." - Isaac Newton
- #459
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
- #458
"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you." - Nedra Glover Tawwab
- #457
"Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you." - Prince
- #456
"Competition drives innovation, but cooperation sustains it." - Nate Hagens
- #455
"Focus on things that are small enough to change, but big enough to matter." - Kat Cole
- #454
"There is power in being robbed & still choosing to dance." - Amanda Gorman
- #453
"After all is said and done, more is said than done." - Aesop
- #452
"We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other." - Christina Koch
- #451
"There are no mistakes, only opportunities." - Tina Fey
- #450
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball
- #449
"Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent." - Venus Williams
- #448
"Your work feels different when it's made with love and care." - Maggie Kang
- #447
"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity." - Dr. Mae Jemison
- #446
"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." - Ida B. Wells
- #445
"Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed." - Paulo Coelho
- #444
"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't." - Barbara Sher
- #443
"Everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change." - Bad Bunny
- #442
"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
- #441
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." - Aeschylus
- #440
"You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow." - Janis Joplin
- #439
"The future is sending back good wishes and waiting with open arms." - Kobi Yamada
- #438
"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'" - Alfred Lord Tennyson
2025
- #437
"The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories." - Kate Atkinson
- #436
"You only get one life, so you might as well feel all the feelings." - Greta Gerwig
- #435
"Try to create things that are an extension of yourself." - Rob Reiner
- #434
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson
- #433
"We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'" - Yvette Nicole Brown
- #432
"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." - Grace Hopper
- #431
"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." - Carol Burnett
- #430
"If you're not failing, you're not trying." - Reshma Saujani
- #429
"Your voice matters. Your stories are worth telling." - EJAE
- #428
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt
- #427
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
- #426
"The best relationships develop out of friendships." - Diane Keaton
- #425
"The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck." - Paul Virilio
- #424
"I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: Compared to what?" - Gloria Steinem
- #423
"The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- #422
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." - Vincent Van Gogh
- #421
"Life's too short to be a pushover." - Kelly Clarkson
- #420
"Inspiration is applying what you’ve received." - Derek Sivers
- #419
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
- #418
"It’s important to have something to walk towards." - Mike Monteiro
- #417
"New sentences have appeared on earth, not written by human beings." - Patricia Lockwood
- #416
"You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too." - Denzel Washington
- #415
"Simplicity is the glory of expression" - Walt Whitman
- #414
"Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times." - Asian Proverb
- #413
"First we build the tools, then they build us." - Marshall McLuhan
- #412
"A genius is the one most like himself." - Thelonious Monk
- #411
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E.E. Cummings
- #410
"This life is hard without assistance from others." - RuPaul
- #409
"To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true." - Bayard Rustin
- #408
"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge." - Audre Lorde
- #407
"Consistent actions produce results more often than serendipitous encounters." - J. Kelly Hoey
- #406
"False expectations take away joy." - Sandra Bullock
- #405
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
- #404
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
- #403
"Be quick, but never hurry." - John Wooden
- #402
"We all have the duty to do good." - Pope Francis
- #401
"All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be." - Pink Floyd
- #400
"Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." - Herodotus
- #399
"You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible." - Jane Krakowski
- #398
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot
- #397
"This present moment was once the unimaginable future." - Stewart Brand
- #396
"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them." - Mia Hamm
- #395
"If you're going to go for a thing, there's no point unless you're going all the way." - Cynthia Erivo
- #394
"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." - Katharine Hepburn
- #393
"We must choose kind words that lift people up." - Ketanji Brown Jackson
- #392
"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free." - Maya Angelou
- #391
"The world is a museum of other people's passion projects." - John Collison
- #390
"If I’m scared, be scared, allow it, release it, move on." - Beyoncé
- #389
"If you are interested in what you do, that keeps you going." - Stan Lee
- #388
"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." - Voltaire
- #387
"Believe in the power of your own voice." - Al Gore
- #386
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato
2024
- #385
"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles." - Jimmy Carter
- #384
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
- #383
"Instead of hate, celebrate." - Prince
- #382
"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important." - T. S. Eliot
- #381
"How beautiful it is to get up and go do something." - Kurt Vonnegut
- #380
"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share." - W. Clement Stone
- #379
"You may delay, but time will not." - Benjamin Franklin
- #378
"Stand for something or you will fall for anything." - Rosa Parks
- #377
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
- #376
"Instead of saying, 'I can do it,' it is better to focus on, 'I can learn it.'" - Thomas Dohmke
- #375
"Whatever the problem, be part of the solution." - Tina Fey
- #374
"Don't block your blessings." - Jennifer Hudson
- #373
"It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth." - Kate Winslet
- #372
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." - Robert Frost
- #371
"Show me your friends, and I'll show you your future." - Dan Peña
- #370
"No matter what happens in life, be good to people." - Taylor Swift
- #369
"Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is." - Lalisa Manobal
- #368
"To lead people, walk behind them." - Lao Tzu
- #367
"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." - Bonnie Prudden
- #366
"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." - Babe Ruth
- #365
"Work smart. Get things done." - Susan Wojcicki
- #364
"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- #363
"You waste years by not being able to waste hours" - Amor Tversky
- #362
"You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation." - Janelle Monae
- #361
"Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse
- #360
"The things that make you strange are the things that make you powerful." - Ben Platt
- #359
"The days you work are the best days." - Georgia O'Keeffe
- #358
"Don't let the past steal your present." - Cherríe Moraga
- #357
"Life is trying things to see if they work." - Ray Bradbury
- #356
"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great." - Cher
- #355
"The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker
- #354
"When people talk, listen completely." - Ernest Hemingway
- #353
"A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted—mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more." - Morgan Matson
- #352
"An honest man is always a child." - Socrates
- #351
"There is an element of failure in all success." - Simone de Beauvoir
- #350
"Sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself." - Miles Davis
- #349
"All creative people want to do the unexpected." - Hedy Lamarr
- #348
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." - William Blake
- #347
"You have to care about your work but not about the result." - Amy Poehler
- #346
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J. R. R. Tolkien
- #345
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." - Carl Jung
- #344
"You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come." - Gloria Estefan
- #343
"If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived." - Sherri Shepherd
- #342
"Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark." - Nia Vardalos
- #341
"The potential for greatness lives within each of us." - Wilma Rudolph
- #340
"Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be." - Jennifer Hudson
- #339
"You've got to love what's yours." - Alicia Keys
- #338
"People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together." - Michelle Obama
- #337
"Maybe your weird is my normal. Who's to say?" - Nicki Minaj
- #336
"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are." - Ovid
- #335
"Try and fail, but don't fail to try." - John Quincy Adams
- #334
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
2023
- #333
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein
- #332
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." - William Blake
- #331
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius
- #330
"Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it." - Jules Renard
- #329
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- #328
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Lao Tzu
- #327
"My philosophy is that you do what you have to do." - Rosalynn Carter
- #326
"Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life." - Anne Hathaway
- #325
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit." - Will Durant
- #324
"If you spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror, you will crash your car." - Matthew Perry
- #323
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day." - Franz Liszt
- #322
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams
- #321
"All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou
- #320
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." - Julie Andrews
- #319
"I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn." - Jane Fonda
- #318
"Let us remember that our voice is a precious gift and we must use it." - Claudia Flores
- #317
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." - Isaac Asimov
- #316
"Your self-worth is determined by you." - Beyoncé
- #315
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are for." - Grace Hopper
- #314
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
- #313
"The road to success is always under construction." - Lily Tomlin
- #312
"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali
- #311
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Will Durant
- #310
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." - Salvador Dalí
- #309
"Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different." - Oprah Winfrey
- #308
"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality." - Nikos Kazantzakis
- #307
"Don't punish people for admitting they were wrong, you make it harder for them to improve." - Ideopunk
- #306
"Change is a stranger you have yet to know." - George Michael
- #305
"If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too." - Wanda Sykes
- #304
"Shouting 'self-care' at people who actually need community care is how we fail people." - Nakita Valerio
- #303
"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary." - Sally Ride
- #302
"When you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out." - Tina Turner
- #301
"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen." - Cher
- #300
"Wishing joy and/or comfort today, whatever your story may be." - Mari Andrew
- #299
"Life is anything but predictable." - Dwayne Johnson
- #298
"You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view." - Penelope Cruz
- #297
"A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage." - The Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess
- #296
"We are what we believe we are." - C.S. Lewis
- #295
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
- #294
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson
- #293
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank
- #292
"[Life's] a journey, and you're not done till you’re done." - Fran Drescher
- #291
"Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment." - Angela Bassett
- #290
"You should celebrate who you are." - Eva Mendes
- #289
"Like what you do, and then you will do your best." - Katherine Johnson
- #288
"To think that everybody's like you is silly." - Charles Barkley
- #287
"If you don't live your life, then who will?" - Rihanna
- #286
"Talent without working hard is nothing." - Cristiano Ronaldo
- #285
"If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good." - Oprah Winfrey
- #284
"The best prophet of the future is the past." - Lord Byron
- #283
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Confucius
- #282
"What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while." - Gretchen Rubin
- #281
"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow." - Aeschylus
2022
- #280
"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other." - Euripides
- #279
"Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily." - Gertrude Elion
- #278
"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend." - Euripides
- #277
"To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you." - Martha Beck
- #276
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." - Chinese Proverb
- #275
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from." - Jodie Foster
- #274
"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine." - Whoopi Goldberg
- #273
"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains." - Anne Frank
- #272
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." - Helen Keller
- #271
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein
- #270
"I never regretted what I turned down." - Angela Lansbury
- #269
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
- #268
"Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away." - Rebecca Solnit
- #267
"Every day brings new choices." - Martha Beck
- #266
"Don’t you ever, ever give up on you." - Sheryl Lee Ralph
- #265
"I enjoy the time passing. I think it's a privilege to be in friendship with time." - Agnès Varda
- #264
"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow." - Beyoncé
- #263
"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work." - Michael Jackson
- #262
"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it." - Julia Child
- #261
"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go." - Margaret Walker
- #260
"You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart." - Carole King
- #259
"Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game, it's everyone's game." - Nichelle Nichols
- #258
"Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort." - Fred Rogers
- #257
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities." - Maya Angelou
- #256
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." - George Orwell
- #255
"Choose people who lift you up." - Michelle Obama
- #254
"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- #253
"It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off." - RuPaul
- #252
"Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start." - Jason Collins
- #251
"Don't get bitter, just get better." - Alyssa Edwards
- #250
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman
- #249
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu
- #248
"I think it's just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to." - Sandra Oh
- #247
"Nothing will work unless you do." - Maya Angelou
- #246
"Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you." - Dwayne Johnson
- #245
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- #244
"Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it." - Queen Latifah
- #243
"You become what you understand." - Søren Kierkegaard
- #242
"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly." - Alice Walker
- #241
"Frustration is fuel that can lead to the development of an innovative and useful idea." - Marley Dias
- #240
"The best time to make friends is before you need them." - Ethel Barrymore
- #239
"Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done." - Amelia Earhart
- #238
"The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one." - Matshona Dhliwayo
- #237
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale
- #236
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
- #235
"If you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that you play that determines if it’s good or bad." - Miles Davis
- #234
"Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
- #233
"Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end." - Gilda Radner
- #232
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - Desmond Tutu
- #231
"The time is always right to do what is right." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- #230
"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values." - Sidney Poitier
- #229
"I love to laugh." - Betty White
2021
- #228
"You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind." - Hillary DePiano
- #227
"Do what you’re genuinely interested in and try to play to your natural strengths." - Jessica Livingston
- #226
"Only the mediocre are always at their best." - Jean Giraudoux
- #225
"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet." - Sarah Louise Delany
- #224
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- #223
"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." - Anne Lamott
- #222
"Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen." - Taylor Swift
- #221
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." - Dolly Parton
- #220
"Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become." - Angelina Jolie
- #219
"What great changes have not been ambitious?" - Melinda Gates
- #218
"Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore." - Leonard Cohen
- #217
"We were together. I forget the rest." - Walt Whitman
- #216
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett
- #215
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran
- #214
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." - Thomas A. Edison
- #213
"All you can do is try to live your best life from day to day and move forward with gratitude." - Brian Clark
- #212
"A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James
- #211
"Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself." - Amy Poehler
- #210
"Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying." - Nikki Giovanni
- #209
"The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it." - Sydney J. Harris
- #208
"We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list." - Michelle Obama
- #207
"Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable." - Janelle Monae
- #206
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso
- #205
"The truth is, everyone's going to hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley
- #204
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work." - Mary Oliver
- #203
"Beautiful days do not come to you. You must walk towards them." - Rumi
- #202
"Strive to do better, but don’t beat yourself up for every shortcoming that you may have." - Stephanie Lahart
- #201
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
- #200
"There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own." - Larry Kramer
- #199
"It is absolutely imperative that every human being's freedom and human rights are respected, all over the world." - Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir
- #198
"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful." - Thích Nhất Hạnh
- #197
"Don't be afraid - if you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them." - Maria Ressa
- #196
"Whoever laughs most, learns best." - John Cleese
- #195
"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes
- #194
"In a time of destruction, create something." - Maxine Hong Kingston
- #193
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb
- #192
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- #191
"Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?" - Neltje Blanchan
- #190
"To understand is to invent" - Jean Piaget
- #189
"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." - An Wang
- #188
"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." - Estée Lauder
- #187
"At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can." - Frida Kahlo
- #186
"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong
- #185
"Make a difference about something other than yourselves." - Toni Morrison
- #184
"Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations." - Dr. Mae Jemison
- #183
"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live." - Dorothy West
- #182
"Without struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass
- #181
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness." - Michel de Montaigne
- #180
"Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters." - Margaret Peters
- #179
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan." - Jim Rohn
- #178
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Søren Kierkegaard
- #177
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou
2020
- #176
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Will Durant
- #175
"Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax." - Mark Black
- #174
"To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." - Lao Tzu
- #173
"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." - Dale Carnegie
- #172
"It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself." - Natalie Portman
- #171
"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." - Leonardo da Vinci
- #170
"When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure." - Viktor Frankl
- #169
"The sky is not the limit. Your mind is." - Marilyn Monroe
- #168
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake." - Confucius
- #167
"If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius." - Michelangelo
- #166
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." - David Russell
- #165
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard
- #164
"If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive." - Paulo Coelho
- #163
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
- #162
"Real change - enduring change - happens one step at a time." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- #161
"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
- #160
"The best revenge is to be unlike the one who performed the injustice." - Marcus Aurelius
- #159
"Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't." - Johnny Depp
- #158
"If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody." - Damian Lillard
- #157
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee
- #156
"There's no one so wise as the man who says nothing at the right time." - Unknown
- #155
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Oscar Wilde
- #154
"If the goal of a captain was to preserve his ship he would keep it docked forever" - Thomas Aquinas
- #153
"Finally I realized I was never asking for too much, I was just asking the wrong person." - Heath Ledger
- #152
"The easiest way to be at the top of your field is to pick a very small and specific field." - Simone Giertz
- #151
"If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don't let some idiot talk you out of it." - Stan Lee
- #150
"Isn't it funny how, day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different." - C. S. Lewis
- #149
"A true friend is one who upon seeing a fault gives you advice and who defends you in your absence." - Ali ibn Abi Talib
- #148
"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." - Mike Jebbett
- #147
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Robertson Davies
- #146
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.
- #145
"Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- #144
"The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood." - Douglas Adams
- #143
"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist." - Mark Twain
- #142
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius
- #141
"A place is beautiful because you were there to give it meaning." - Andrew Gifford
- #140
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world. Not even our troubles." - Charlie Chaplin
- #139
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy." - Leo Buscaglia
- #138
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli
- #137
"What you are being challenged by may be the very thing you've been waiting for." - Iyanla Vanzant
- #136
"Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on." -Nick Fury
- #135
"Always remember, your focus determines your reality." - George Lucas
- #134
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." - Confucius
- #133
"Sometimes, fear does not subside and... one must choose to do it afraid." - Elisabeth Elliot
- #132
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
- #131
"To find yourself, think for yourself" - Socrates
- #130
"It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way." - Alan Watts
- #129
"You can’t be brave if you’ve only ever had wonderful things happen to you" - Mary Tyler Moore
- #128
"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do." - Kobe Bryant
- #127
"Whatever your life's work is, do it well." - Martin Luther King Jr.
- #126
"Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout." - Morihei Ueshiba
- #125
"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been." - Rainer Maria Rilke
2019
- #124
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J. R. R. Tolkien
- #123
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
- #122
"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." - Rainer Maria Rilke
- #121
"If it's out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too." - Ivan Nuru
- #120
"You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago." - Alan Watts
- #119
"Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten." - Carl Sandburg
- #118
"A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd
- #117
"Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity." - Aaron Swartz
- #116
"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion." - Paulo Coelho
- #115
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." - Bruce Lee
- #114
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks
- #113
"Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. That's why life is hard." - Jeremy Goldberg
- #112
"If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values. They're hobbies." - Jon Stewart
- #111
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson
- #110
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
- #109
"We didn't realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun." - Winnie the Pooh
- #108
"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow" - Plato
- #107
"Choose people who lift you up." - Michelle Obama
- #106
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - C.S. Lewis
- #105
"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." - Dr. Seuss.
- #104
"I think it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice, if it doesn't lead to a crime." - Lisa Kudrow
- #103
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." - Zig Ziglar
- #102
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." - William James
- #101
"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
- #100
"There's a million simple solutions, they just never work together." - Anonymous
- #99
"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much." - D.H. Rumsfeld
- #98
"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
- #97
"The more tired you are, the more susceptible you become to short-term thinking." - Brian Norgard
- #96
"Loneliness has more to do with lack of purpose than lack of company" - Neil T Stacey
- #95
"Adversity, everyone gets them. But winners, they overcome them." - Edgar K. Tham
- #94
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." - Hector Berlioz
- #93
"They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
- #92
"Real love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
- #91
"Fear is the devil's greatest illusion." - R.M. Drake
- #90
"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." - Stephen Covey
- #89
"The days are long enough for those who use them." - Leonardo Da Vinci
- #88
"I think the reason I was successful is that I was never cynical." - Carol Burnett
- #87
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- #86
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud
- #85
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from." - Jodie Foster
- #84
"True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know" - Confucius
- #83
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
- #82
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
- #81
"Cowards never start, weak never finish, strong never quit." - CJ Chan
2018
- #80
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." - Oprah Winfrey
- #79
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living." - Dr. Seuss
- #78
"Experience is the hardest kind of teacher; it gives the test first and the lesson afterward." - Oscar Wilde
- #77
"How did it get so late so soon?" - Dr. Seuss
- #76
"He who fails to plan is planning to fail." - Winston Churchill
- #75
"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill
- #74
"One lie puts a thousand truths into doubt." - Khalid Yasin
- #73
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." - John Dewey
- #72
"Emotions make excellent servants, but tyrannical masters." - John Seymour
- #71
"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials." - Bruce Lee
- #70
"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." - Michael John Bobak
- #69
"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." - John Wooden
- #68
"Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk." - Steinbeck
- #67
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." - Will Rogers
- #66
"Once a year, go some place you've never been before." - Dalai Lama
- #65
"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud." - Maya Angelou
- #64
"Worry pretends to be necessary, but serves no useful purpose." - Eckhart Tolle
- #63
"Success isn't owned. It is leased, and rent is due everyday." - J.J. Watt
- #62
"What we do now echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius
- #61
"If you expect your friends to be perfect, you won’t have any friends." - Bob Parsons
- #60
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu
- #59
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard
- #58
"I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer." - Aryeh Frimer
- #57
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in a long-shot." - Charlie Chaplin
- #56
"You're smart too late and old too soon." - Mike Tyson
- #55
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance." - Plato
- #54
"Wherever you are, be there totally." - Eckhart Tolle
- #53
"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision." - Maimonides
- #52
"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job." - Michael Larsen
- #51
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
- #50
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled" - Mark Twain
- #49
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington
- #48
"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart." - C.S. Lewis
- #47
"Learning never exhausts the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
- #46
"I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me." - Joshua Graham
- #45
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell
- #44
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." - James Stephens
- #43
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Albert Camus
- #42
"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment." - Mario Puzo
- #41
"How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!" - Martin Luther
- #40
"If you are giving best at your work, then you must have confidence in it." - Krishnendu Pramanick
- #39
"From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent." - H.P. Lovecraft
2017
- #38
"The scariest moment is always just before you start." - Stephen King
- #37
"Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon." - Paul Brandt
- #36
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
- #35
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- #34
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right." - Henry Ford
- #33
"Each moment has the potential to be special and memorable." - Steven Redhead
- #32
"So shines a good deed in a weary world." - Willy Wonka
- #31
"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve." - Joseph Joubert
- #30
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan
- #29
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
- #28
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West
- #27
"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better." - Jim Rohn
- #26
"If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there." - Roy T. Bennett
- #25
"Opportunities lie in the place where the complaints are." - Jack Ma
- #24
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington
- #23
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- #22
"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard." - Tim Notke
- #21
"Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." - Elie Wiesel
- #20
"You must always be willing to work without applause." - Ernest Hemingway
- #19
"He who laughs at himself, never runs out of things to laugh at." - Epictetus
- #18
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying." - Michael Jordan
- #17
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson
- #16
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
- #15
"I'd rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven't done." - Lucille Ball
- #14
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya Angelou
- #13
"To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts" - Roger Ebert
- #12
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” - Arthur Ashe
- #11
“Imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time.” - Debbie Millman
- #10
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - John F. Kennedy
- #9
"When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie." - Yevegny Yevtushenko
- #8
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” - Charles Bukowski
- #7
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'" - John Greenleaf Whittier
- #6
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt
- #5
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it." - Alan Saporta
- #4
"Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life." - Dolly Parton
- #3
"Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it." - Julie Andrews
- #2
"You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at." - Tina Fey
- #1
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato