1. He understood with vivid clarity that the best ideas came from a place with a sign on the door saying I don’t know – Museum of Modern Love, Heather Rose

2. So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible. – The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

3. I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. – Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 

4. It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

5. It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you. – Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfield

6. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise – Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

7. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – I Can Read with My Eyes Shut, Dr. Suess

8. We all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable. –  Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

9. Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

10. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt –  The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt

11. I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. – The Wave, Virginia Woolf

12. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. – The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

13. The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. –  How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie

14. Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. – Persuasion,  Jane Austen

15. She decided long ago that life was a long journey. She would be strong, and she would be weak, and both would be okay. – Furthermore, Tahereh Mafi

16. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. –  Shatter Me, Tahereh Mafi

17. Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you. –  Up Thoughts For Down Times, Les Brown

18. There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair. – A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

19. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. –  P.S. I Love You,  H.Jackson Brown Jr.

20. Life… is a paradise to what we fear of death. –  Measure for Measure,  William Shakespeare

21. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. – Diary, Chuck Palahniuk

22. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.- An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde

23. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell

24. All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time. – The Five People You Meet In Heaven,  Mitch Albom

25. It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then. – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,  Lewis Carroll

26. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it – Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

27. The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today. – The Power of Six, Pittacus Lore

28. If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives. – The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket

29. And when they played they really PLAYED. And when they worked they really WORKED. – The King’s Stilts, Dr. Suess

30. Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. – Divergent, Veronica Roth

31. When you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile. – Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery

32. You can’t control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act – The 5 Second Rule, Mel Robbins

33. Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is letting God talk to you. – I’ve Been Thinking . . ., Maria Shriver

34. If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something. – Make Good Art, Neil Gaiman

35. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. – Brida,  Paulo Coelho

36. Once you learn to make sacrifices, you will be successful. – Eat That Frog,  Brian Tracy

37. If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. – The Lightning Thief,  Rick Riordan

38. To define is to limit. – The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

39. Melancholy was the sounds on a winter’s night. – Jacob’s Room, Virginia Woolf

40. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. -No Man Is an Island,  Thomas Merton

41. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. – Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

42. Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. – Digital Fortress, Dan Brown

43. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Lady Windermere’s Fan,  Oscar Wilde

44. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running,  Haruki Murakami

45. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. – The Fault in Our Stars, John Green

46. You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. – No Country For Old Men, Cormac McCarthy

47. We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,  J.K. Rowling

48. Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. – Message in a Bottle,  Nicholas Sparks

49. Fear no more, says the heart… – Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

50. The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it – The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

51. It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything. – Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

52. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. –  The Minpins by Roald Dahl

53. Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. – David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

54. I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs – Live Your Dreams, Les Brown 

55. Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. – The Art of War, Sun Tzu

56. Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. – The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut

57. When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. – The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

58. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.- Mansfield Par, Jane Austen

59. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. – The Dharma Bums,  Jack Kerouac

60. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. – The Fellowship of the Ring,  J.R.R. Tolkien

61. Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful – Frankenstein,  Mary Shelley

62. The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive – Looking for Alaska, John Green

63. There are years that ask questions and years that answer – Their Eyes Were Watching God,  Zora Neale Hurston

64. Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart – Kafka on the Shore,  Haruki Murakami

65. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – Nineteen Eighty-Four,  George Orwell

 66. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm – The Song of the Lark,  Willa Cather

67. Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot – Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote

68. Time is the longest distance between two places – The Glass Menagerie,  Tennessee Williams

69. Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy. – Orlando, Virginia Woolf

70. Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared – The Hate U Give,  Angie Thomas

71. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning. – The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis

72. Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. – Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

73. Time moves slowly, but passes quickly – The Color Purple,  Alice Walker

74. All human wisdom is summed up in these two words – ‘Wait and hope -The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

75. The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything – City of the Beasts,  Isabel Allende

76. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,  Maya Angelou

77. Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. – To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

78. It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. – The Secret History, Donna Tartt

79. There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for. – The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien

80. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. – The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

81. Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair – The Lady of the Camellias, Alexandre Dumas

82. I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will – Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

83. There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. – A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf

84. It’s high time you were shown That you really don’t know. All there is to be known – On Beyond Zebra, Dr. Suess

85. Rise above what’s holding you back. – Eat That Frog,  Brian Tracy

86. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves – Man’s Search for Meaning,  Viktor E Frankl

87. All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. – Timequake,  Kurt Vonnegut

88. A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for – Meditations,  Marcus Aurelius

89. A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Essays of Three Decades,  Thomas Mann

90. I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen – Little Women,  Louisa May Alcott

91. Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. – Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose,  Flannery O’Connor

92. A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. – The Shadow of the Wind,  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

93. Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny – The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide To Personal Freedom, Miguel Ruiz

94. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. – Letter to My Daughter, Maya Angelou

95. Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,  Maya Angelou

96. Every human life is worth the same and worth saving. – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling

97. Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy. – St. George and the Godfather,  Norman Mailer

98. Knowledge is love and light and vision. – The Story of My Life, Hellen Keller

99. You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. – The Power of Purpose, Les Brown

100. It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it – Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

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1. “Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.” –Barbara Januszkiewicz
2. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
3. “Inhale possibility, exhale creativity.” – Laura Jaworski

1. “The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.” – Julia Cameron
2. “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” ― Pablo Picasso”
3. Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play. – Henri Matisse
4. Creation begins with vision. – Henri Matisse
5. Creativity is taking the best skills and techniques from experts around you and improving upon them. ―  Unknown
6. It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create. ―  J. M. W. Turner
7. If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. ―  Marc Chagall
8. Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. ―  Ray Bradbury
9. Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a soul’s own wretchedness. ―  Peter Paul Rubens
10. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” — Alberto Giacometti
11. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ― Pablo Picasso
12. “I believe that nowadays we are in the process of establishing a new relationship between humanity, creativity and nature.” ― Giovanni Morassutti
13. “Taming the matter is the basic thing for creating visual art.” ― David Berkowitz Chicago
14. “Creating is higher than healing. It is primal. However, in order to create profoundly, we must first heal.” ― Donna Goddard
15. “Embrace failure as much as you can; that’s how great art is created. If you are too careful you kill the creativity.” ― Bernard Kelvin Clive
16. “Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.” ― Steven Magee
17. “The creation of woman is the essence of art.” ― Atalay Aydın
18. “But there is something a human can do that an animal never can. Create art.” ― Jennifer A. Nielsen
19. “There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.” ― Akira Kurosawa
20. “Art is as much about searching as it is about creating.” ― Karl Ove Knausgård
21. “Art recreates me. Art heals me. Art breathes joy into me” ― Malebo Sephodi

1. “Being creative is a casual thing, being artist is a professional thing.” ― Amit Kalantri
2. “Nature is the Creator, I just do the fine tuning” ― Steven George Clark
3. “Art is something beautiful, creative, and full of aestheticism. It can be an expression of reality and also non-reality.” ― Md. Ziaul Haque
4. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” ― Alberto Giacometti
5. “Art is not always beautiful. But the struggle to create Art is always beautiful.” ― Avijeet Das
6. “Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.” ― Iimani David
7. “Analysis is the art of creation through destruction.” ― P.S. Baber’
8. “Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.” ― Ozzie Zehner
9. “Creativity is one of the highest transmissions of love.” ― Suzy Kassem
10. “When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.” ― Justina Chen Headley
11. “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.” ― Mikhail Bakunin
12. “The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. –  James Joyce
13. Art is a selective re-creation of reality – Ayn Rand
14. “To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.” –  Aberjhani
15. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.” ― Seth Godin
16. “Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.” ― Henry Miller
17. Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.” ― Jyrki Vainonen
18. “The point of art is to inspire you to create your own.” ― Misha Collins
19. “Understand the rules then break them. That’s creativity.” ― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

1. The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. — Alberto Giacometti
2. “Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.”― Emily Dickinson
3. “Crafting your work beats being told what to do.” ― Richie Norton
4. “Life isn’t over because you failed, in fact, it has just began” ― Viha Pandya
5. “Speaking a beautiful lie is a great art, which is often presented to us in the form of fiction.” ― Awdhesh Singh
6. “The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
7. “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” — Mary Lou Cook
8. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” —Maya Angelou
9. “An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” —Edwin Land
10.  “Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.” —George Lois 
11. “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”― C.E.M. Joad
12. “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”― Oscar Wilde
13. “You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”― Albert Einstein
14. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”― Brene Brown
15. “The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.”― Mikhail Bakunin
16. “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” ― Bernard Branson
17. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”― Scott Adams
18. “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”― Erich Fromm
19. “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”― Edith Södergran
20. “Dancing is the rhythm of the soul expressed in movement, beauty, art, and creativity.” ― Adrienne Posey

1. “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.” ― Mary Shelly
2. “You have to do stuff that average people don’t understand because those are the only good things.”― Andy Warhol
3. “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”― Madonna
4. “Creativity is an act of defiance.”― Twyla Tharp
5. “Create with the heart; build with the mind.” ― Criss Jami
6. “The criminal is the creative artist; the detective is only the critic.”― G.K. Chesterton
7. “Creativity is as important as literacy”― Ken Robinson
8. “All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”― Leonardo Da Vinci
9. “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”― Richard Buckminster Fuller
10. “Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity”― T.S. Eliot
11. “There is no healthier drug than creativity.”― Nayyirah Waheed
12. “Routine kills creative thought.”― Scarlett Thomas
13. “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”― Rita Mae Brown
14. “The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.”― Robert Greene
15. “Creativity is a continual surprise.”― Ray Bradbury
16. “Originality is the best form of rebellion.”― Mike Sasso
17. “Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.”― Sir Ken Robinson
18. “Creative power is mightier than its possessor.”― C.G. Jung
19. “Artists are those who can evade the verbose.”― Haruki Murakami
20. “Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.”― Osho
21. “All good work requires self-revelation.”― Sidney Lumet
22. “Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.”― Keri Smith
23. “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”― Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
24. “The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.”― Rainer Maria Rilke
25. “Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.”― Max Ernst
26. Sometimes the creation that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in. – Theaster Gates

1. “Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.”― Jhumpa Lahiri
2. “The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.”― Vilayat Inayat Khan
3. “Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.”― Torkom Saraydarian
4. “Arrogance kills creativity.”― A.M. Riley
5. “Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration,motivation, and a pinch of creativity”― bo bennett
6. “Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.”― Alan Alda
7. “Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.”― Masaru Ibuka
8. “Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.”― Ozzie Zehner
9. “Creating a better future, Requires creativity in the present.”― Matthew Goldfinger
10. “Diversity creates dimension in the world.”― Elizabeth Ann Lawless
11. “Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.”― Phil Cousineau

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1.”The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.” — Vincent van Gogh

2. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” — Alberto Giacometti

3. “The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Claude Monet

4. “The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” – Joan Miró

5. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci

6. “I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.” – Yayoi Kusama

7. “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing.  Making your unknown known is the important thing.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

8. “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí

9. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

10. “You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

11. “I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

12. “I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

13. “I am independent! I can live and I love to work.” – Mary Cassatt

14. “There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky

15. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso

16. “If we go for the easy way, we never change.” – Marina Abramović

17. “He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.” ― Pablo Picasso

18. “Photography is an art which touches and grips one’s own heart’s blood.” – Edvard Munch

19. “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.” ― Pablo Picasso

20. “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” ― Vincent Van Gogh

21. “Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.” — Rembrandt van Rijn

22. “I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.” – Andy Goldsworthy

23. “The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.” ― Vincent van Gogh

24. “Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.” ― Henri Matisse

 25. “Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.” – Magdalena Abakanowicz

26. “Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have.” – Edvard Munch

27. “I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

28. “Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.” ― Georgia O’Keeffe

29. “Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.” – ― Salvador Dali

30. “The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.” – ― Salvador Dali

31. “All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.” – Theaster Gates

32. “The one thing the world will never have enough of is outrageous.” ― Salvador Dalí

33. “The important thing is somehow to begin.” — Henry Moore

34. “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” ― Salvador Dalí

35. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” – Leonardo da Vinci

36. “People also leave a presence in a place even when they are no longer there.“ – Andy Goldsworthy

37. “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

38. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

39. “Time stays long enough for those who use it.”― Leonardo Da Vinci

40. “Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

41. “Embrace the honesty of imperfection and you will be unstoppable.” ― Alice Bag

42. “Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

43. “Don’t stand when you can sit; don’t sit when you can lie down.”― Martha Graham

44. “Realize that everything connects to everything else.” ― Leonardo Da Vinci

45. “You are a breathtaking work of art, far too brilliant to be hidden, far too beautiful to be broken.” ― Sai Pradeep

46. “That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom.” ― Iris Murdoch

47. “Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime.” ― Iris Murdoch

48. “The first Image of a Black Hole is a clear-cut Form of Art!” ― Khalid Masood

49. “Art is anything that sends you back to yourself.” ― Sai Pradeep

50. “Art is wood that has fewer branches than science but its roots are deeper than in science.” ― David Berkowitz Chicago

51. “Crafting your work beats being told what to do.” ― Richie Norton

52. “Art is not a democracy. People don’t get to vote on how it ends.”― George R.R. Martin

53. “Art turned out to be an extremely happy accident.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

54. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” ― Pablo Picasso

55. “Speaking a beautiful lie is a great art, which is often presented to us in the form of fiction.” ― Awdhesh Singh

56. “The highest art is the art of putting peaceful steps on the earth, so that entire cosmos get rejuvenated by each step.” ― Amit Ray

57. “The way of an artist is an entirely different way. It is a way of surrender.” ― Agnes Martin

58. “Least of all should the artist be held responsible for the fate which befalls his works.” ― Sigmund Freud

59. “When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them” ― Adrienne Rich

60. “Art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.” ― Abbas Kiarostami

61. “Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out.” ― Pam Allyn

62. “Art is not a toy. It is a mirror of beyond” ― Bongha Lee

63. “The only difference between design and art is that design sometimes needs a reason, and art never does .” ― Mike Stagnitta

67. “Reading is the foundation of learning but an artist drew up the blueprints.” ― George E. Miller

68. “Sometimes letting go leads to your best results.” ― Samantha Segal

69. “Colour expresses something in itself. -Vincent Van Gogh”

70. “Science sustains life, but art makes it tolerable.” ― J. Andrew Schrecker

71. “Safe art may soothe us, but it will never transform us.” ― Lucy H. Pearce

72. “The greatest challenge in art is in dealing with disappointment.” ― Albert Schweitzer

73. “Art is my source of Ambition.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

74. “Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. ” ― Leonardo DaVinci

75. “Art is the bloom that makes life bearable” ― A.J. Garces

76. “Art is freedom, a way of being alive.” ― Marty Rubin

77. “The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.” ― Charles Baudelaire

78. “The creation of woman is the essence of art.” ― Atalay Aydın

79. “What energy is to the athlete, imagination is to the artist.” ― Amit Kalantri

80. “Art recreates me. Art heals me. Art breathes joy into me” ― Malebo Sephodi

81. “Self-motivation is an art, one should practice every now and then!” ― Somya Kedia

82. “Ideas carried out stimulate more ideas.” ― Edith Schaeffer

83. “Art has no responsibility except to be art.” ― Brian K. Vaughan

84. “If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something.” ― Neil Gaiman

85. “People are always saying ‘talent’ when they mean ‘practice.” ― Maggie Stiefvater

86. “Good art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.”― Cesar A Cruz

87. “Dancing is the rhythm of the soul expressed in movement, beauty, art, and creativity.” ― Adrienne Posey

88. “Art is a place where you can be with your own kind, a magical place where imagination flies freely and widely.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

89. “Art combines fancy and judgement.” ― John Gardner

90.“Art and Ocean, both have same depths- Immeasurable!” ― Somya Kedia

91. “Art is something beautiful, creative, and full of aestheticism. It can be an expression of reality and also non-reality.” ― Md. Ziaul Haque

92. “Originality consists of returning to the origin” ― Antoni Gaudí

93. “Art is not always beautiful. But the struggle to create Art is always beautiful.” ― Avijeet Das

94. “A true admirer is also an artist.” ― Aryan Jain

95. “It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control.” ― Henning Mankell

96. “Life’s memories are not life’s history, but the original work of an unseen artist” ― Rabindranath Tagore

97. “Art and freedom of expression will change the world faster than politics and religion combined.” ― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

98. “Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.” ― Scott Warren Miller

99. “Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.” ― Anne Frasier

100. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

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1.  “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim, and end of human existence.” — Aristotle
2. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill
3. “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” — Nicolas Chamfort
4. “Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” — Soren Kierkegaard
5. “The past has no power over the present moment.” — Eckhart Tolle
6. “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
7.  “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
8. “It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus
9.  “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
10. “Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.” — Confucius
11. “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

1. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” — J.K. Rowling
2. “We do not describe the world we see. We see the world we can describe.” — René Descartes
3. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Confucius
4. “The more sand had escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
5.  “Conquer yourself rather than the world.” — Rene Descartes
6.  “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” — William James
7. “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.” — Confucius
8. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” — Dalai Lama
9. “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
10. “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” — Aristotle
11. “It’s strange how simple things become, once you see them clearly.” — Ayn Rand
12. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” — William James
13. “He who thinks great thoughts often makes great errors.” — Martin Heidegger
14. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle
15. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” — Thomas Merton

1. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” — Aristotle
2. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso
3. “Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.” – Lao Tzu
4. The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates
5. “We live in the best of all possible worlds” – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
6. “One cannot step twice in the same river” – Heraclitus
7. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me .” – Ayn Rand
8. “No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience” – John Locke
9. “Liberty consists in doing what one desires” – John Stuart Mill
10. “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” – Socrates
11. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit” – Aristotle
12. “Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward ” – Søren Kierkegaard
13. “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it” – Epicurus
14. “I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature” – Spinoza
15. “Virtue is nothing else than right reason” – Seneca the Younger
16. “Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one’s desires, but by the removal of desire” – Epictetus

1. “The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone” – John Locke
2. “The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures” – Democritus
3. “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.” – Aristotle
4. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
5. “It isn’t positioned which lend distinction, but men who enhance positions.” – Agesilaus
6. “Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.” – Plotinus
7. “Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.” – Herodotus
8. “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” – Demosthenes
9. “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
10. “A good decision is based on knowledge and not numbers.” – Plato
11. “Great acts are made up of small deeds.” – Lao Tzu
12. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
13. “Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.” – Christopher Markus
14. “There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.” – Seneca
15. “Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
16. “Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”- Voltaire
17. You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
18. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” – Victor Frankl
19. “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.” – Baruch Spinoza
20. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” – Albert Einstein
21. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive – to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

1. “The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.” – Lao Tzu
2. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius
3. “It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.” – John Locke
4. “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” – Isaac Asimov
5. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
6. “Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
7. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
8. “Liberty consists in doing what one desires.” – John Stuart Mill
9. “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
10. “Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.” – John Locke
11. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – Fitzgerald F. Scott
12. “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good man do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
13. “We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”-St. Augustine
14. “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” – Will Durant

1. “Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.” – Markus Zusak
2. “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think” – Socrates
3. “Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.” – Immanuel Kant
4. “We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.” – Santosh Kalwar
5. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
6. “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.” – Iris Murdoch
7. “Time is a game played beautifully by children.” – Heraclitus
8. “The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.” – Dan Millman
9. “I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” – Bertrand Russell
10. “Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they are not altered for the better designedly.” – Francis Bacon
11. “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” – Marcus Aurelius
12. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” – Plato
13. “The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
14. “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” – Seneca
15. “Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.” – Sun Tzu
16. “If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.” – Victor Cousin
17. “Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.” – Lao Tzu
18. “It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.” – Bertrand Russell
19. “I think therefore I am.” – René Descartes
20. “In everything, there is a share of everything.” – Anaxagoras
21. “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.” – William of Ockham
22. “What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational.” – G. W. F. Hegel

1. “It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

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1. “ Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.” — Cindy Gallop

2. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —  Helen Keller

3. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey

4. “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ” ― Roseanne Barr

5. “When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier.” —  Diane Von Furstenberg

6. “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” —  Madeleine Albright

7. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” —  Maya Angelou

8. “ Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”—  Anne Frank

9. “On my own I will just create and if it works, it works. And if it doesn’t, I’ll just create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.” —  Oprah Winfrey

10. “If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.”  — Anita Roddick

11. “We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what’s wrong in your life, or you can focus on what’s right.” —  Marianne Williamson

12. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” —  Arianna Huffington

13. “When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.” —  Wilma Rudolph

14. “When you have found it, you should stick to it.” —  Audrey Hepburn

15. “All the people who knock me down only inspire me to do better.” — Selena Gomez

16.“When something I can’t control happens, I ask myself: Where is the hidden gift? Where is the positive in this?” —  Sara Blakely

17. “Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” — Audrey Hepburn

18. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. “ —  Jennifer Lopez

19. “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.” —  Rosa Parks

20. “Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.”  — Judy Garland

21. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” —  Eleanor Roosevelt

22. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”  —  Alice Walker

23. “I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” —  Joan Rivers

24. “The only accessory that you need to wear in life is Confidence” —  Priyanka Chopra Jonas

25. “I raise up my voice—not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard… We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” —  Malala Yousafzai

26.“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” —  Angelina Jolie

27. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” —  Serena Williams

28. “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” —  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

29. “Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery.” —  Anne Frank

30.“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” —  Malala Yousafzai

31. “Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.” —  Martha Stewart

32. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” —  Mother Teresa

33. “Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.” —  Queen Victoria

34. “The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.” —  Marianne Williamson

35. “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.” —  Ethel Barrymore

36. “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” —  Peggy O’Mara

37. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” —  Maya Angelou

38. “Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me.” —  Sheryl Sandberg

39. “I’m in my prime. There’s no goal too far, no mountain too high.” —  Wilma Rudolph

40. “Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” —  Rosa Parks

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

42. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” —  Erica Jong

43. “You can’t give up! If you give up, you’re like everybody else.” —  Chris Evert

44. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —  Louise Hay

45. “Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.” —  Julia Child

46. “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” — Mother Teresa

47. “Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.” —  Audrey Hepburn

48. “You can be the lead in your own life.” —  Kerry Washington

49. “Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.” — Anne Frank

50.“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” —  Frida Kahlo

51. “Everyone shines, given the right lighting.” —  Susan Cain

52. “Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want.”— Alice Walker

53. “Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.” —  Bette Midler

54. “Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.” —  Florence Nightingale

55. “It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve gotta blast through and have faith.” —  Emma Watson

56. “Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds, will continue in others.” —  Rosa Parks

57. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” —  Anna Wintour 

58. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” —  Anne Sweeney 

59. “Success is an exception, so be exceptional.” —  Malti Bhojwani

60. “Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.” —  Wilma Rudolph

61. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” — Ida B. Wells

62. “Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” —  Sheryl Sandberg

63. “I don’t go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.” —  Princess Diana

64. “Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.” —  Audrey Hepburn

65. “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” —  Anne Frank

66. “Don’t waste a single second. Just move forward as fast as you can, and go for it.” —  Rebecca Woodcock

67. “The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don’t want.” —  Iyanla Vanzant

68. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” —  Ginni Rometty

69. “She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.” —  Atticus

70.“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” —  Mother Teresa

71. “Channeling dissatisfaction into action is transformative.” —  Gloria Steinem

72. “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” — Hillary Clinton

73. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —  Alice Walker

74. “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” —  Rosalynn Carter

75. “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” —  Toni Morrison

76. “There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.” —   Rita Dove

77. “I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can’t fail if you do that.” —   Anita Hill

78. “You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.” —  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

79. “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” -—  Rosa Parks

80. “There were times I was underestimated a lot. It gave me a unique benefit.” —Elaine Welteroth

81. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” —  Anne Frank

82. “Practice creates confidence. Confidence empowers you.” — Simone Biles

83. “Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.” —  Helena Rubinstein

84. “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” —  Janis Joplin

85. “The focus is what is right before you – to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.”  — Kiran Bedi.

86. “Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift – there is nothing small about it.” -— Florence Nightingale

87. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” —  Marianne Williamson

88. “You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity.” —  Priyanka Chopra Jonas

89. “It’s amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly, and authoritatively demand it.” -— Meryl Streep

90. “Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.” — Alice Walker.

91. “If you know you’re going to fail, then fail gloriously!” —  Cate Blanchett 

92. “I’m a big believer in accepting yourself and not really worrying about it.” —  Jennifer Lawrence

93. “She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.” —  Atticus

94. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” —  Maya Angelou

95. “Your dreams are what defines your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.” —  PV Sindhu

96. “You can always find a solution if you try hard enough.” — Lori Greiner

97. “Femininity is your greatest power. Embrace it!” —  Stacey Martino

98. “Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”— Audre Lorde

99. “Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.” —  Wilma Rudolph

100. “Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.” —  Uta Hagen

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1.”Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill

2. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville

3. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis

4. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

5. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” —Dale Carnegie

6. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” —Mister Rogers

7. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” —John Wooden

8. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder

9. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella

10. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown

11. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins

12. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli

13. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ―Maya Angelou

14. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart

15. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is a success.” — Henry Ford

16. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama

17. “One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers.” — Edmond Mbiaka

18. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso

19. “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” ―David Ogilvy

20. “Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had.” —Angela Bassett

21. “Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried

22. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” —Bo Jackson

23. “The only one who can tell you “you can’t win” is you and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis

24. “If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.” ―Clayton M. Christensen

25. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” ―Arthur C. Clarke

26. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

27. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” —Jay-Z

29. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

30. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” — Bill Gates

31. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no. Only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner.” — Arlan Hamilton

32. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle

33. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe

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

35. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” —Drew Houston

36. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

37. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca

38. “For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone and is a succession of little things that are brought together.” —Vincent van Gogh

39. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” —Earl Nightingale

40. “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” – Pema Chodron

41. “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett

42. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” —Thomas Aquinas

43. We’ll never get bored when we try something new. There’s really no limit to what we can do.” — Dr. Seuss

44. “If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.” —Childish Gambino

45. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay

46. “People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong.” —Constance Wu

47. “You never know what you can do until you try.” – William Cobbett

48. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller

49. “Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.” —Drake

50. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

51. “Every successful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him.” ― K’wan

52. “Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you.” – Mark Cuban

53. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent Van Gogh

54. “If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer

55. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Kurt Cobain

56. “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” – G.K. Nielson

57. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

58. “Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.” – Benjamin Hardy

59. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale

60. “The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” – Oprah Winfrey

61. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill

62. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

63. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell

64. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele

65. “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

66. “Every champion was once a contender that didn’t give up.” – Gabby Douglas

67. “To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about everyday hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.” – Summer Sanders

68. Don’t dream about success. Get out there and work for it.

69. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass

70. “You can cry, scream, and bang your head in frustration but keep pushing forward. It’s worth it.”- Unknown

71. “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

72. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

73. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou

74. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

75. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

76. “Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.” – Baz Luhrmann

77. “We can do anything just set your mind to.” – Benjamin Franklin

78. . “Success is an exception, so be exceptional.”- Malti Bhojwani

79. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

80. “A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” – Nelson Mandela

81. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” – Florence Nightingale

82. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

83. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” – Sonia Sotomayer

84. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

85. “Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” – Frank Ocean

86. “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

87. “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” – Ken Poirot

88. “Dream beautiful dreams, and then work to make those dreams come true.” – Spencer W. Kimball

89. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

90. “Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.” – Brian Vaszily

91. “Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm, and genuine people.” – Tena Desae

92. “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson

93. “To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal”- APJ Abdul Kalam

94. “Motivation comes from working on things we care about.” – Sheryl Sandberg

95. “Failure is the tuition you pay for success.” – Walter Brunell

96. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill

97. “Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.” – Vince Lombardi

98. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock

99. Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you but to help you realize your hidden potential and power. Let difficulties know that you too are difficult. – APJ Abdul Kalam

100. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ―Winston Churchill

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1.“When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.”— Eleanor Roosevelt

2. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”—Norman Vincent Peale

3. “It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. —Walter Anderson

4. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers

5. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown

6. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” ―Vernon Sanders Law

7. “To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.” —Dorothy West

8. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” — Confucius

9. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” — Joe Girard

10. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

11. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford

12. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” — Andrew Carnegie

13. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs

14. “I invite everyone to choose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.” — Jean-Francois Cope

15. “Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality” — Les Brown

16. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

17. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball

18. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” – Marcus Aurelius

19. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” —Pablo Picasso

20. “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” ―David Ogilvy

“If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it.” —Tobias Lütke

21. “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet

22. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ―A.A. Milne

23. “Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried

24. “Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” —Steve Jobs

25. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

26. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama

27. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” ―Maya Angelou

28. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” —Carl Sagan

29. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Wayne Dyer

30. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” — Ariana Huffington

31. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” — George Addair

32. “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” — Wayne Dyer

33. “Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility.” —Unknown

34. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” — C.S. Lewis

35. “The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

36. “Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.” – Pema Chodron

37. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” —Ruth Gordo

38. “If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.” —Thomas Aquinas

39. “You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do.” — Dr. Seuss

40. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” —Louise Hay

41. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

42. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi

43. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey

44. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” —Stephen Covey

45. “Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” – Isabelle Lafleche

46. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

47. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” – Elon Musk

48. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

49. “Hold the vision, trust the process.” – Unknown

50. “One day or day one. You decide.” – Unknown

51. “Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later.” – Unknown

52. “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg

53. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

54. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

55. “Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.’ – A.C. Benson

56. “If everything seems to be under control, you’re not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti

57. “The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” – Oscar Wilde

58. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.” – Conan O’Brien

59. “If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” – Kenneth Goldsmith

60. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” ―Epicurus

61. “Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

62. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

63. “Turn your wounds into wisdom” – Oprah

64. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller

65. “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

66. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn

67. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out.” – Abraham Lincoln“Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain

68. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

69. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss

70. “Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” – Ken Poirot

71. “If you’re too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.” – Susan Fales-Hill

72. “Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” – Helen Keller‘It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been.” – George Eliot

73. “You can do anything you set your mind to.” – Benjamin Franklin

74. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”  C.S. Lewis

75. “I can and I will. Watch me.” – Carrie Green

76. “Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”― Roy T. Bennett

77. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”– Ferris Bueller

78. “A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make’ – The Greatest Showman

79. “Just because it burns doesn’t mean you’re gonna die you’ve gotta get up and try.” – Try, P!nk

80. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins

81. “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” – Malala Yousafzai

82. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. “ – Jennifer Lopez

83. “When you know your worth, no one can make you feel worthless.” – Unknown

84. “You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.” – JIm Rohn

85. “Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path.” – Phillip Sweet

86. “If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough.” – David A. Bednar

87. “If you can’t make a mistake you can’t make anything.” – Marva Collin

88. “Practice makes progress not perfect.” – Unknown

89. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

90. “Be a positive energy trampoline – absorb what you need and rebound more back.” — Dave Carolan

91. “Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale

92. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” –Jim Rohn

93. “The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

94. “Time is what we want most and what we use worst.” – William Penn

95. “Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time, it is also about taking actions at right time.” ― Amit Kalantri

96. “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”― Barack Obama

97. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

98. “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller

99. “Don’t give up, don’t take anything personally, and don’t take no for an answer.” – Sophia Amoruso

100. “Words can inspire, thoughts can provoke, but only action truly brings you closer to your dreams.” – Brad Sugars

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