It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer

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

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.” —Anthony Robbins

“The greater damage for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it it too low and we reach it.” —Michelangelo

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

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

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” —Muhammad Ali

“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 two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” —Lao Tzu

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” —Shonda Rhimes

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” —Helen Keller

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”  —Maya Angelou

“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

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” —Kobe Bryant

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” —Helen Keller

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.” —Oprah Winfrey

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” —John Wooden

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon B. Johnson

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James

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

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis

“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou

“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” —Deep Roy

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.”  —E. E. Cummings