Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
Theoretical physicist
Business
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
Theologian and philosopher
Business
There is no better personal development tool than running your own business.
Ali Brown
Founder + CEO of We Lead
Business
Surround yourself with a trusted and loyal team. It makes all the difference.
Alison Pincus
Cofounder of One Kings Lane
Relationships
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
Ally Condie
Author of young adult fiction
Relationships
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom
American writer and psychotherapist
Relationships
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you; spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Amy Poehler
American actress, writer and director
Business
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anaïs Nin
French-Cuban American novelist
Relationships
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin
French-Cuban American novelist
Relationships
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers
American advice columnist
Relationships
Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
Anna Taylor
Author
Life
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Anne Frank
German diarist
Business
Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.
Anne McKevitt
Entrepreneur, TV personality and philanthropist
Business
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.
Anne Sweeney
Co-chair of Disney Media
Business
Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.
Anthony Robbins
Author, coach, speaker, and philanthropist
Business
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.
Arianna Huffington
Editor in chief of The Huffington Post
Business
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
Arianna Huffington
Editor in chief of The Huffington Post
Relationships
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Business
The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
Greek shipping magnate
Life
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
American-Polish classical pianist
Life
Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
Ashton Kutcher
Actor, entrepreneur and venture capitalist
Business
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me?
Ayn Rand
Russian-American writer and philosopher
Business
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Babe Ruth
American professional baseball player
Relationships
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara De Angelis
Relationship consultant, TV personality
Relationships
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis
Relationship consultant, TV personality
Life
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining
Barbara Sher
Career / life coach, and author
Business
Everything started as nothing.
Ben Weissenstein
Founder + CEO The Entitled Group
Business
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
Benjamin Franklin
Founding Father of the United States
Relationships
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher and mathematician
Business
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft
Business
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft
Life
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold
Bob Marley
Jamaican singer-songwriter
Life
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
Martial artist, actor
Relationships
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Life
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Brunett
Actress, comedian, singer, and writer
Business
The comfort zone is a nice place, but nothing grows there. Take the leap today and start your business!”
Caroline Cummings
Political journalist
Business
The difference between skill and talent: A skill is something you learn. Talent is what you can't help doing.
Caroline Ghosen
Founder + CEO of career site Levo
Relationships
Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.
Caroll Bryant
Poet
Business
So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
Caterina Fake
Co-founder of Flickr
Relationships
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Catherine Ponder
American minister
Life
Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.
Celine Dion
Canadian singer
Relationships
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
English writer and social critic
Business
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
American inventor, engineer, businessman
Life
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Charles Swindoll
Pastor
Business
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
Cher
Singer and actress
Life
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
Highest spiritual leader of Tibet
Relationships
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carniege
Self-improvement expert
Business
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.
David Brinkley
American newscaster for NBC and ABC
Life
The healthiest response to life is joy.
Deepak Cobra
Author and alternative-medicine advocate
Life
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter
Life
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter
Relationships
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are"
Donald Miler
CEO of StoryBrand
Relationships
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss
Author, illustrator, poet
Life
Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore
American actress
Relationships
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and poet
Business
Life-fulfilling work is never about the money — when you feel true passion for something, you instinctively find ways to nurture it.
Eileen Fisher
Fashion Designer
Life
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States
Life
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States
Relationships
Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
British novelist
Life
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny
Australian bush nurse
Life
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Ellen DeGeneres
American comedian
Life
You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.
Emma Stone
American actress
Relationships
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
Greek philosopher
Life
In order to write about life first you must live it.
Ernest Hemingway
American novelist
Business
I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.
Estee Lauder
Co-founder of cosmetics company
Relationships
Love is a game that two can play and both win
Eva Gabor
Actress, businesswoman and socialite
Relationships
Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It's a choice.
Fawn Weaver
American investor, historian, relationship author
Business
Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.
Frank Ocean
American singer-songwriter
Relationships
Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.
Gabriela Mistral
Poet-diplomat, educator and humanist
Life
Life is a question and how we live it is our answer.
Gary Keller
Founder of Keller Williams
Life
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
Life
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.
Gerard Way
American singer-songwriter
Relationships
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
Gloria Steinem
American feminist journalist
Life
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses
American folk artist
Relationships
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own
Harriet Jackson Brown
American author
Life
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
American actor
Business
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
Author, disability rights advocate and lecturer
Relationships
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Author, disability rights advocate and lecturer
Life
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all
Helen Keller
Author, disability rights advocate and lecturer
Life
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
Helen Mirren
English actor
Relationships
A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking.
Helen Rice
American poet
Business
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
American naturalist
Life
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined"
Henry David Thoreau
American naturalist
Business
Whether you think you can, or think you can't — you're right.
Henry Ford
Founder Ford Motor Company
Business
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the World.
Hillary Clinton
American politician
Life
Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.
Hillary Clinton
American politician
Life
Life is a series of baby steps.
Hoda Kotb
American-Egyptian broadcaster
Relationships
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
French novelist and playwright
Business
Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.
Howard Schultz
Starbucks CEO
Relationships
Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark to have been loved so deeply .. will give us some protection forever.
J.K.Rowling
British author and philanthropist
Relationships
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane Austen
English novelist
Life
It's never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
Jane Fonda
American actress
Business
I'm not a businessman — I'm a business, man.
Jay-Z
American rapper
Life
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
Jennifer Aniston
American actress
Relationships
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
American actress, producer, and philanthropist
Business
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
American businessman and philanthropist
Relationships
The most beautiful thing is to see a person you love smiling. And even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it.
John Robinson
Pastor
Relationships
We are most alive when we're in love.
John Updike
American novelist
Relationships
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Joseph F. Newton
American Baptist minister
Life
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J Marine
Magician, author, and lecturer
Relationships
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts
American actress and producer
Life
Life is from the inside out. When you shift on the inside, life shifts on the outside.
Kamal Ravikant
Author
Relationships
Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl Menninger
Psychiatrist
Life
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
Kate Winslet
English actress
Relationships
First and foremost, self-love, and then give love away.
Katy Perry
American singer-songwriter
Relationships
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran
Lebanese-American writer
Business
If you are starting your own business, the best shortcut is to find a good mentor.
Kim Kiyosaki
Co-founder and CEO of The Rich Dad Company
Relationships
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage
Lao-Tzu
Chinese philosopher and writer
Business
Always deliver more than expected.
Larry Page
Co-founder of Google
Business
I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?'”
Leah Busque
Founder + CEO of TaskRabbit
Relationships
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
American comic book writer
Relationships
I think about my best friendship as a great romance of my young life"
Lena Dunham
American actress, writer, director
Relationships
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer
Life
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
Leonardo DiCaprio
American actor and environmentalist
Life
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lilian Dickson
Missionary, author, and public speaker
Business
Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist – while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!”
Lori Greiner
Shark Tank investor
Life
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened
Ludwig Jacobowski
German poet
Business
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
Madonna
American singer, songwriter, and actress
Business
You only live once but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
American actress, singer, playwright
Relationships
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian lawyer and political ethicist
Life
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcom Forbes
Publisher of Forbes magazine
Relationships
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic, and essayist
Relationships
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
Margaret Mead
American cultural anthropologist
Business
The key to success is to start before you are ready.
Marie Forleo
American entrepreneur
Life
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Marilyn Monroe
American actress
Business
Work like there is someone working twenty four hours a day to take it away from you.
Mark Cuban
American entrepreneur
Life
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
American writer
Relationships
It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
Actress and singer
Business
Build your business success around something that you love — something that is inherently and endlessly interesting to you.
Martha Stewart
Businesswoman, writer, and television personality
Life
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, "What are you doing for others?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
American minister
Life
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
Artist
Life
Life's too mysterious to take too serious.
Mary Engelbreit
Artist
Business
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
Founder Mary Kay Cosmetics
Life
Life is a mountain. Your goal is to find your path, not to reach the top.
Maxime Lagace
Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender
Business
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
American poet and civil rights activist
Relationships
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Maya Angelou
American poet and civil rights activist
Relationships
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
Maya Angelou
American poet and civil rights activist
Relationships
Spend a few minutes a day really listening to your spouse. No matter how stupid his problems sound to you.
Megan Mullally
American actress, comedian, and singer
Business
You never lose in business, either you win or you learn.
Melinda Emerson
American entrepreneur
Relationships
True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Poet, philosopher, entrepreneur
Business
Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.
Michael Bloomerg
Founder Bloomberg L.P.
Business
If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can't hear them anymore.
Michele Ruiz
Entrepreneur and journalist
Business
Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.
Michelle Obama
Former First Lady of the United States
In any business, it is impossible to do it half-heartedly and succeed.
Millie Leung
Entrepreneur and business mentor
Life
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples
Mother Teresa
Roman Catholic nun and missionary
Life
Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That's it.
Naval Ravikant
Chairman and former CEO of AngelList
Life
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
Neil Amstrong
American astronaut
Business
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer
Relationships
The thing with friends when you get older is they can`t be replaced.
Nora Ephron
American journalist, writer, and filmmaker
Life
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live
Norman Cousins
American political journalist
Business
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey
American television producer and philanthropist
Relationships
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
American television producer and philanthropist
Life
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah Winfrey
American television producer and philanthropist
Relationships
Never love anybody that treats you like you're ordinary
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet and playwright
Life
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet and playwright
Relationships
The first duty of love is to listen
Paul Tillich
American-German philosopher
Life
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Paulo Coelho
Brazilian lyricist
Business
Play by the rules, but be ferocious.
Phil Knight
Co-founder of Nike
Life
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.
Reba McEntire
American singer
Relationships
If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
Regina Brett
American author and inspirational speaker
Business
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn
Business
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
Richard Branson
Founder of Virgin Group
Business
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.
Richard Branson
Founder of Virgin Group
Life
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment
Rita Mae Brown
American feminist writer
Life
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments
Rose Kennedy
American philanthropist
Business
Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
Sara Blakely
American businesswoman and philanthropist
Business
Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.
Sara Blakely
American businesswoman and philanthropist
Life
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
Sarah Louise Delany
American educator and civil rights pioneer
Relationships
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Seneca
Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman
Business
I want every little girl who's been told she's bossy to be told again she has leadership skills.
Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer of Facebook
Business
Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.
Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer of Facebook
Business
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
Simon Sinek
Author and inspirational speaker
Life
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher
Life
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Stephen Hawkins
Theoretical physicist
Business
In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.
Steve Case
Co-founder AOL
Life
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Steve Jobs
Founder of Apple
Business
I don't know the word quit. Either I never did, or I have abolished it.
Susan Butcher
American dog musher
Relationships
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Sylvia Plath
American poet and novelist
Relationships
Patience is the mark of true love. If you truly love someone, you will be more patient with that person.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Buddhist monk
Business
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman
Business
I failed my way to success.
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman
Life
There are no mistakes, only opportunities.
Tina Fey
American actress
Life
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.
Tom Hanks
American actor and filmmaker
Relationships
One day they'll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones
Turcois Ominek
American author
Relationships
Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.
Turcois Ominek
American author
Business
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
British businessman and philanthropist
Relationships
Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.
Virginia Rometty
Executive chairman of IBM
Business
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.
Virginia Rometty
Executive chairman of IBM
Life
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
British writer
Relationships
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
Walter Winchell
American columnist and news commentator
Life
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 Buffet
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
Business
You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
Relationships
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet
Business
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Life
Keep calm and carry on.
Winston Churchill
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Relationships
Trust is the fruit on a relationship in which you know you are loved.
Wm. Paul Young
Canadian author
Relationships
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
American novelist, socialite, and painter
Business
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
American author and motivational speaker
Life
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.
Zig Ziglar
American author and motivational speaker
Relationships
Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they’re on the same side.