Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success.

There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

You have to be strong and calm to overcome difficult moments.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Give people high fives just for getting out of bed. Being a person is hard sometimes.

If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, so can you.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.