By Dr. Travis Bradberry
No one can deny the power of a good quote. They motivate and inspire us to be our best.
Here are 38 of my absolute favorites:
- âI alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.â âMother Teresa
- âIâve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.â âMaya Angelou
- âWhether you think you can or you think you canât, youâre right.â âHenry Ford
- âPerfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.â âVince Lombardi
- âLife is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.â âCharles Swindoll
- âIf you look at what you have in life, youâll always have more. If you look at what you donât have in life, youâll never have enough.â âOprah Winfrey
- âRemember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.â âEleanor Roosevelt
- âI canât change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.â âJimmy Dean
- âNothing is impossible, the word itself says âIâm possibleâ!â âAudrey Hepburn
- âTo handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.â âEleanor Roosevelt
- âToo many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.â âLes Brown
- âDo or do not. There is no try.â âYoda
- âWhatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.â âNapoleon Hill
- âTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnât do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.â âMark Twain
- âIâve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. Iâve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times Iâve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. Iâve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.â âMichael Jordan
- âStrive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.â âAlbert Einstein
- âI am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.â âStephen Covey
- âWhen everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.â âHenry Ford
- âThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they donât have any.â âAlice Walker
- âThe most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.â âAmelia Earhart
- âIt is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.â âAristotle Onassis
- âDonât judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.â âRobert Louis Stevenson
- âThe question isnât who is going to let me; itâs who is going to stop me.â âAyn Rand
- âIf you hear a voice within you say, âYou cannot paint,â then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.â âVincent Van Gogh
- âBuild your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.â âFarrah Gray
- âRemember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.â âDalai Lama
- âA person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.â âAlbert Einstein
- âWhatâs money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.â âBob Dylan
- âI have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.â âLeonardo da Vinci
- âWhen one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.â âHelen Keller
- âWhen I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down âhappy.â They told me I didnât understand the assignment, and I told them they didnât understand life.â âJohn Lennon
- âThe only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.â âRalph Waldo Emerson
- âEverything youâve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.â âGeorge Addair
- âWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.â âPlato
- âNothing will work unless you do.â âMaya Angelou
- âBelieve you can and youâre halfway there.â âTheodore Roosevelt
- âWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.â âPlutarch
- âControl your own destiny or someone else will.â â Jack Welch
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Travis Bradberry, Ph.D.
Dr. Travis Bradberry is the award-winning coauthor of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and the cofounder of TalentSmartEQÂź the worldâs leading provider of emotional intelligence tests and training serving more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies. His bestselling books have been translated into 25 languages and are available in more than 150 countries.
Dr. Bradberry is a LinkedIn Influencer and a regular contributor to Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, The World Economic Forum, and The Huffington Post. He has written for, or been covered by, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Fast Company, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review.