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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

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