365 بهترین نقل قول های الهام بخش برای سال 2023

برای هفت سال متوالی، اولین چیزی که هر سال منتشر می‌کنم، خلاصه‌ای از ۳۶۵ نقل قول الهام‌بخش (۳۶۶ نقل قول در جهش) است. سال ها).

برخی از نقل قول های امسال کلاسیک هستند. برخی دیگر جدیدتر، یا به سادگی جالب یا سرگرم کننده هستند. اما همه آنها الهام بخش هستند و من فکر می کنم دیدن همه آنها با هم تأثیر را چند برابر می کند.

این هم نسخه امسال: بهترین نقل قول های الهام بخش. برای سال ۲۰۲۳٫ سال نو مبارک!

“زندگی یک ماجراجویی جسورانه است یا اصلاً چیزی نیست.”
–هلن کلر

“موفقیت به تعداد دفعاتی که برنده می‌شوید تعیین نمی‌شود، بلکه با نحوه بازی شما در هفته بعد از باخت تعیین می‌شود.”
— پله

“نادیده گرفتن اشتباهات شما. اولین چیزی که باید نگران آن بود این است: آیا کاری را انجام می دهم که در آن خوب هستم؟
— Max Levchin

“به طور شهودی، فکر می کنید هرچه انصاف بیشتری داشته باشید، بهتر است. اما این چیزی نیست که ما نشان داده شده. بهتر است اگر سرپرستان یک تند تند ثابت باشند تا اینکه گاهی منصف باشند و گاهی منصف نباشند. مردم می خواهند بدانند وقتی سر کار می آیند چه انتظاری دارند.”
–فادل ماتا

“فرصت ها اتفاق نمی افتد. شما آنها را ایجاد می‌کنید.”
–Chris Grosser

“هیچ چیز کار نمی کند مگر اینکه انجام دهید.”
–Maya Angelou

“اگر می خواهید دنیا را تغییر دهید، با مرتب کردن تخت خود شروع کنید.”
–دریاسالار ویلیام مک ریون

“روسیه مکانی سخت و سرد است، بنابراین روس ها شادی را با دو دست می گیرند. او می‌افزاید: «این ایده که شما برای لذت خود رنج خواهید برد، رنجی نیز وجود دارد.
–هلن راسل

“انتظار اینکه دنیا با شما منصفانه رفتار کند، زیرا شما فرد خوبی هستید، کمی شبیه این است که از گاو نر انتظار داشته باشید به شما حمله کند چون گیاهخوار هستید.”
— دنیس ولى

“کسی سرزمین های جدیدی را بدون رضایت برای از دست دادن بینایی برای مدتی طولانی از ساحل کشف نمی کند.”
— آندره ژید

۱۲ ژانویه ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

۱۳ ژانویه ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

۱۴ ژانویه ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

۱۵ ژانویه ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

۱۶ ژانویه ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

۳۰ ژانویه ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

۳۱ ژانویه ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

۲ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

۳ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

۴ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

۵ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ ( یکشنبه)

۶ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

۷ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

۸ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

۹ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

۱۰ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

فوریه ۱۱، ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

۱۲ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

۱۳ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

۱۴ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

۱۵ فوریه، ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

۱۶ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

۱۷ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

۱۸ فوریه، ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

۱۹ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

۲۰ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

“انسان هرگز هیچ ماده ای را به اندازه روح انسان مقاوم نکرد.”
–برنارد ویلیامز

۲۱ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

“شما قرار نیست خیلی دور شوید زندگی بر اساس آنچه قبلاً می دانید. شما با چیزهایی که قرار است یاد بگیرید در زندگی پیشرفت خواهید کرد.”
–چارلی مانگر

۲۲ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“شما در آستانه یک پیروزی کامل هستید. شما نمی توانید اشتباه کنید. دنیا پشت شماست.”
— ژوزفین بیکر

۲۳ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“من همیشه تعجب خواهم کرد. رئیس من با امتناع از اعتقاد به وجود تبعیض جنسی چه چیزی به دست آورد؟ … من هیچ وقت متوجه نشدم. در عوض، من کار خود را رها کردم و شروع کردم.”
–Nicole Hallberg

۲۴ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

“مجموعه ای از شیرهایی که توسط یک شیر هدایت می شوند برتر از دسته شیرهایی هستند که توسط یک ژاک هدایت می شوند.”
— جورج واشنگتن

۲۵ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

“بقای یک شکست اعتماد به نفس بیشتری به شما می دهد. شکست ها ابزارهای یادگیری عالی هستند… اما آنها باید به حداقل برسند.”
–Jeffrey Immelt

۲۶ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

“صنعت ما به سنت احترام نمی گذارد. فقط به نوآوری احترام می گذارد.”
–Satya Nadella

۲۷ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

“تعالی هنری است که با آموزش و عادت به دست می آید… ما همان کاری هستیم که مکررا انجام می دهیم. پس تعالی یک عمل نیست، بلکه یک عادت است.”
–ویل دورانت (و همچنین ارسطو، به نوعی)

۲۸ فوریه ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

“مهم نیست گذشته شما چقدر کثیف باشد، آینده شما همچنان بی لک است.”
–Drake

۱ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“گام اول این است که به وضوح آنچه این است که شما دنبال آن هستید، زیرا بدون دانستن آن، هرگز آن را نخواهید داشت.”
— هالی بری

۲ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“”a-ha” بزرگ این بود که باید اطمینان حاصل کنید که مدیران شما توانمند هستند، زیرا اگر آنها نتوانند «مناسب لباس بپوشند»، چه تصمیم‌های قضاوت دیگری نمی‌گیرند؟
— مری بارا، مدیر عامل جنرال موتورز، در مورد کد لباس دو کلمه‌ای خود («مناسب لباس بپوش»)

۳ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

“بیشتر مردم به این دلیل سوال می پرسند که می خواهند بدانند پاسخ؛ وکلا آموزش دیده اند که هرگز سؤال نپرسند مگر اینکه قبلاً پاسخ را بدانند.”
— Lani Guinier

۴ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

“خودت را باور کن! به توانایی هات ایمان داشته باش! بدون اعتماد متواضعانه اما منطقی به قدرت های خود، نمی توانید موفق یا شاد باشید.”
–نورمن وینسنت پیل

۵ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

“بی‌احترامی، اعتماد به نفس احمقانه، و ساده لوحی همراه با پشتکار، نگرش باز و توانایی مداوم برای یادگیری است که فیس‌بوک، گوگل را ایجاد کرد. ، Yahoo، eBay، Microsoft، Apple، Juniper، AOL، Sun Microsystems، و دیگران.”
–Vinod Khosla

۶ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

“اگر وقت نگذارید تا دقیقاً دقیقاً چه چیزی را می خواهید به انجام برسانید، روشن شوید، برای همیشه محکوم هستید که زندگی خود را صرف دستیابی به اهداف کسانی کنید که انجام می دهند.”
–Steve Pavlina

۷ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

“با دیگران عمیقاً ارتباط برقرار کنید. انسانیت ما تنها وجه مشترک همه ماست.”
— ملیندا گیتس

۸ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“هنگامی که یک در بسته می شود، در دیگری باز می شود. اما ما اغلب چنان طولانی و با تأسف به در بسته نگاه می کنیم که درهای بسته را نمی بینیم.”
–الکساندر گراهام بل

۹ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“مردان به من برای برخی نابغه ها اعتبار می دهند. تمام نبوغی که من دارم در این نهفته است. وقتی موضوعی در دست دارم، آن را عمیقا مطالعه می کنم. روز و شب پیش من است. ذهنم درگیر آن می شود. سپس تلاشی که من انجام داده ام چیزی است که مردم از آن به عنوان ثمره نبوغ یاد می کنند. این ثمره کار و اندیشه است.”
— الکساندر همیلتون

۱۰ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

“در زیبایی زندگی بمانید. ستاره ها را تماشا کنید و خودتان را در حال دویدن با آنها ببینید.”
–مارکوس اورلیوس

۱۱ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

“ایمان این است که آنچه را که نمی بینید باور کنید. پاداش این ایمان این است که آنچه را باور دارید ببینید.”
–سنت آگوستین

۱۲ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

“بیشتر به شخصیت خود اهمیت دهید تا آبرو، زیرا شخصیت شما همان چیزی است که واقعاً هستید، در حالی که شهرت شما صرفاً همان چیزی است که دیگران فکر می کنند شما هستید.”– جان وودن

۱۳ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

–Estée Lauder

۱۴ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

“اگر نمی دانستید چند ساله هستید چند ساله می شدید؟”
— ساچل پیج (که تاریخ تولد او منبع بحث و جدل بود)

۱۵ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“هیچ محدودیتی برای مقدار خیر شما وجود ندارد اگر برای شما مهم نیست که چه کسی اعتبار را دریافت می کند، می توانید انجام دهید.”
— رونالد ریگان

۱۶ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)
“مردی که کوه را جابجا می کند با برداشتن سنگ های کوچک شروع می کند.”
— کنفوسیوس

۱۷ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)
“وقتی ۹۹٪ از مردم به ایده شما شک دارند، یا سخت در اشتباه هستید یا در شرف ساختن تاریخ هستید.”
— اسکات بلسکی

۱۸ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)
“موفقیت بسیار شبیه یک تاکسیدو روشن و سفید است. وقتی آن را به دست می آورید احساس فوق العاده ای می کنید، اما به شدت می ترسید که آن را کثیف کنید، از هر طریقی خرابش کنید.”
— Conan O’Brien

۱۹ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)
“من خیلی سریع از خودم خسته می شوم. بنابراین نمی توانم تصور کنم که دیگران از من خسته نشوند.”
— پل جیاماتی

مارس ۲۰، ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)
“اگر مبارزه نباشد، پیشرفتی وجود ندارد.”
–فردریک داگلاس

۲۱ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (سه‌شنبه)
“من فکر می‌کنم مردم زمان زیادی را صرف استراتژی در مورد کارهایی که باید بکنند، تلف می‌کنند، نه اینکه فقط بروند و کاری انجام دهند، اشتباه کنند و سپس چرخش کنند. هدف یک استارت‌آپ باید این باشد: تا جایی که ممکن است راه‌اندازی کنید، هر چه سریع‌تر شکست بخورید، و سپس بفهمید که چگونه از آنجا به جلو حرکت کنید.”
–Jenny Fleiss

۲۲ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“گاهی اوقات تا زمانی که چیزی را از دست ندهید متوجه نمی شوید که چقدر خاص است آی تی. من هر سال در مورد ماه رمضان چنین احساسی دارم.”
–عمر سلیمان

۲۳ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“من فقط عاشق زنان شیک هستم. من می توانستم تمام روز را در کنار آنها باشم. برای من، رئیس اصلاً یک اصطلاح تحقیر آمیز نیست. این به معنای فردی پرشور، درگیر و جاه طلب است و برای یادگیری اهمیتی ندارد.”
–Amy Poehler

۲۴ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

“من دوست دارم دختر جوانی را ببینم که بیرون می رود و دنیا را از برگردان می گیرد. زندگی عوضی است شما باید بیرون بروید و لگد بزنید.”
–Maya Angelou

۲۵ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

“به خصوص زمانی که آنقدر با استعداد نیستید، باید آماده باشید. شما باید برای مبارزه آماده باشید. باید هر روز اینطور باشی. و اگر نباشی، امرار معاش خود را از دست می‌دهی.”
–Brian Scalabrine

۲۶ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

“پرنده اولیه کرم را می گیرد، اما موش دوم پنیر را می گیرد”
— استیون رایت

۲۷ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

“من هزار برده آزاد کردم اگر فقط می توانستم هزاران برده دیگر را آزاد کنم آنها می دانستند که برده هستند.”
–Harriet Tubman

۲۸ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

“سفر واقعی اکتشاف در جستجوی مناظر جدید نیست، بلکه در داشتن چشمانی جدید است.”
–مارسل پروست

“یک مداد شماره ۲ و یک رویا می تواند شما را به هر جایی برساند.”
–جویس مایر

۳۰ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“برای دیدن باید نام چیزی را که به دنبالش هستیم فراموش کنیم در.”
— کلود مونه

۳۱ مارس ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

“بهترین چیزها در زندگی چیزها نیستند.”
— مایک نس

۱ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

“سریعترین راه برای تغییر خود این است که با افرادی معاشرت کنید که در حال حاضر همانگونه هستند که شما می خواهید باشید.”
— رید هافمن

۲ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

“سوال آیا چه کسی به من اجازه نمی دهد. این کیست که جلوی من را بگیرد.”
–آین رند

۳ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

“اقتصاد مانند زبان هلندی است – به من گفته اند منطقی است، اما من شک دارم.”
— جان اولیور

۴ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

“اگر سخت نبود، همه این کار را انجام می دادند. این سختی است که آن را عالی می کند.”
— تام هنکس

۵ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“این نوستالژی به نوعی طعنه آمیز است زیرا بسیاری از مردم در آن زمان از ما متنفر بودند.”
–بن انگلسبی، نویسنده و کارگر سابق فیلم های پرفروش

۶ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“همه ایده های خوب با ایده های بد شروع می شوند، به همین دلیل طول می کشد.”
— استیون اسپیلبرگ

۷ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

“اگر هنوز برده گذشته خود باشید، نمی توانید بر آینده خود مسلط شوید.”
— ریحانا

“ابتدا از خود بپرسید: بدترین چیزی که ممکن است اتفاق بیفتد چیست؟ سپس برای پذیرش آن آماده شوید. سپس به بهبود بدترین ها ادامه دهید.”
–Dale Carnegie

۹ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

“هرکسی می‌تواند مصیبت‌ها را در یک موقعیت دشوار ببیند، اما برای دیدن فرصت نیاز به یک فرد قوی‌تر است.”
— درو بریس

۱۰ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

“آرزو کردن آسان تر از گرفتن اجازه است.”–گریس هاپر

۱۱ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (سه‌شنبه)

–Hermundur Sigmundsson

۱۲ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“به خوبی بفهمم، درک من فقط می تواند کسری بی نهایت کوچک از تمام آنچه می خواهم بفهمم باشد.”
— آدا لاولیس

۱۳ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“خوبی دشمن بزرگ است.”
–جیم کالینز

۱۴ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

” اگر فقط می توانستیم آرامش بیشتری به زندگی خود اضافه کنیم، شاید به اندازه دانمارکی ها خوشحال می شدیم.”
–براک باستیان

۱۵ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه) )

“شادی یک شغل درونی است.”
–ناشناس

۱۶ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

“طبیعت به انسان دو سر داد… یکی برای نشستن و دیگری فکر کردن با از آن زمان تاکنون موفقیت یا شکست انسان به چیزی بستگی دارد که بیشتر از همه استفاده کرده است.”
–George R. Kilpatrick

۱۷ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

“ما نمی دانستیم که ویروسی شود. ما متعجب شدیم که یک مجموعه بدون تزئین از ۱۲۷ اسلاید – بدون موسیقی، بدون انیمیشن – تا این حد تأثیرگذار شود.”

۱۸ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

“این کار شما نیست که من را دوست داشته باشید مال من است.”
–Byron Katie

۱۹ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“از رها کردن چیزهای خوب برای رفتن به سوی چیزهای عالی نترسید.”
–John D. Rockefeller

۲۰ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“من از ترس متوسط ​​بودن می ترسم.”
— تیلور سوئیفت

۲۱ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

“Don’ از انجام کار بزرگ نترسید.”
–Daphne Koller

۲۲ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

“اگر به اطراف اتاق نگاه کنید، باهوش ترین فرد در اتاق، شما در اتاق اشتباهی هستید.”
— Lorne Michaels

۲۳ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

“یک راه آسان برای اینکه مردم شما را دوست داشته باشند این است که آنها را بخندانید.”
— Isla Fisher

۲۴ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

“حدس می زنم بدترین روزی که داشته ام زمانی بوده است که مجبور شدم در مرکز توانبخشی جلوی همسر و دخترم بایستم و بگویم: “سلام، نام من سم است و من یک معتاد هستم.”
–ساموئل ال. جکسون

۲۵ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

“امروز، من واقعاً فقط یک کلمه برای شما دارم. … و آن کلمه این است: “اینترنت.”
–تد لئونسیس، در طی یک سخنرانی آغازین در سال ۱۹۹۹

۲۶ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“خلاقیت، هوش و سرگرمی است.”
–آلبرت انیشتین

۲۷ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“هیچ شغلی بهتر از دیگری نیست.. هر شغلی ارزشمند است”
–Geoffrey Owens، بازیگر آمریکایی شناخته شده که پس از مشاهده کار در Trader Joe’s

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“یک سرباز که یک تفنگ را گم می کند عواقب بسیار بیشتری نسبت به ژنرالی که در یک جنگ می بازد متحمل می شود.”
–Paul Yingling

۲۹ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

“این را بنویس، مرد جوان. من می گویم که زندگی بسیار مهربان بوده است.”
–مارگارت گورمن، اولین خانم آمریکا

۳۰ آوریل ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه)

“تنها جایی که موفقیت قبل از کار حاصل می شود در فرهنگ لغت است.”
–Vidal Sassoon

۱ مه ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

“اگر فرصت به شما ضربه نمی زند، دری بسازید.”
–Milton Berle

۲ مه ۲۰۲۳ (سه شنبه)

“به یک ماهی قوی نیاز است تا برخلاف جریان آب شنا کند. حتی یک مرده هم می تواند با آن شناور شود.”
–جان کرو

۳ مه ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“زمان شما محدود است، پس آن را برای زندگی دیگران هدر ندهید.”
–استیو جابز

۴ مه ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“هیچ چیز کار نمی کند مگر اینکه این کار را انجام دهید.”
–مایا Angelou

۵ مه ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

“از جایی شروع کنید هستند. از آنچه دارید استفاده کنید. هر کاری می توانید انجام دهید.”
–Arthur Ashe

۶ مه ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

“ممکن است فرصت بزرگ شما در همان جایی باشد که اکنون هستید.”
–ناپلئون هیل

۷ مه ۲۰۲۳ (یکشنبه) )

“اگر زمین نخورید چگونه می خواهید بدانید که بلند شدن چگونه است.”
– – استفن کاری

۸ مه ۲۰۲۳ (دوشنبه)

“اگر شما در منطقه ای که در آن کار می کنید احساس امنیت می کنید، در منطقه مناسب کار نمی کنید. همیشه کمی جلوتر از آن چیزی که احساس می‌کنید توانایی حضور در آب را دارید، بروید. کمی از عمق خود خارج شوید. و وقتی احساس نمی‌کنید که پاهایتان کاملاً کف را لمس می‌کنند، تقریباً در مکان مناسبی هستید تا کاری هیجان‌انگیز انجام دهید.”
— David Bowie

۹ مه ۲۰۲۳ (سه‌شنبه)

“خیلی کم می‌سازند، آن‌هایی که زیر ستاره‌ها می‌سازند.”
–ادوارد یانگ

۱۰ مه ۲۰۲۳ (چهارشنبه)

“فقط چشمانی که با اشک شسته شده اند می توانند به وضوح ببینند.”
— لوئیس مان

۱۱ مه ۲۰۲۳ (پنجشنبه)

“وقتی عکسی نمی‌سازم، تمام وقتم را صرف تعمیر ماشینم می‌کنم. همسر من نباید نگران زنان دیگر باشد. او می داند کجا مرا پیدا کند.”
–استیو مک کوئین، بازیگر، ۱۹۶۸

۱۲ مه ۲۰۲۳ (جمعه)

“اگر روی نتایج تمرکز کنید، هرگز تغییر نخواهید کرد. اگر روی تغییر تمرکز کنید، نتیجه خواهید گرفت.”
–Jack Dixon

۱۳ مه ۲۰۲۳ (شنبه)

“احتمالاً بهترین مشت کل مبارزه هرگز فرود نیامد. Muhammad Ali, as I was going down – stumbling and trying to hold myself – he saw me stumbling. Ordinarily, you finish your fighter off. I would have. He got ready to throw the right hand and he didn’t do it. That’s what made him, in my mind, the greatest fighter I ever fought.”
–George Foreman

May 14, 2023 (Sunday)

“Nothing is hopeless that is right.”
–Susan B. Anthony

May 15, 2023 (Monday)

“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.”
–John F. Kennedy

May 16, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.”
–Jeffrey Gitomer

May 17, 2023 (Wednesday)

“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
–Rudyard Kipling

May 18, 2023 (Thursday)

“I’ve always been about honesty, whether on the radio, whether I did a movie, whether I wrote a book. As long as you’re honest, you don’t lose your edge.”
— Howard Stern

May 19, 2023 (Friday)

“Your kids are overwhelmingly fantastic.”
–Genevieve Morgan Coursey, Uber driver who wrote an essay about college students as customers

May 20, 2023 (Saturday)

“An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.”
— Benjamin Graham

May 21, 2023 (Sunday)

“God loves to help him who strives to help himself.”
–Aeschylus

May 22, 2023 (Monday)

“Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.”
— Jason Sudeikis

May 23, 2023 (Tuesday)

“You do this because you like it, you think what you’re making is beautiful. And if you think it’s beautiful, maybe they think it’s beautiful.”
— Lou Reed

May 24, 2023 (Wednesday)

“When you value people, you give them freedom.”
–Martha McSally

May 25, 2023 (Thursday)

“An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better.”
— Clayton Christensen

May 26, 2023 (Friday)

“If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.”
–Jeff Bezos

May 27, 2023 (Saturday)

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
–Virgina Wolfe

May 28, 2023 (Sunday)

“I don’t look to jump ove r 7-foot bars–I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”
–Warren Buffett

May 29, 2023 (Monday)

“The potential market opportunity did not seem large enough for our required model.”
–Early potential AirBNB investor who turned down the chance, 2008

May 30, 2023 (Tuesday)

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
–Alexander the Great

May 31, 2023 (Wednesday)

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.”
–Richard Dreyfus

June 1, 2023 (Thursday)

“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
–Charles Dickens

June 2, 2023 (Friday)

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

June 3, 2023 (Saturday)

“I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.”
— Ida B. Wells

June 4, 2023 (Sunday)

“[My biggest influence] was realizing the tradeoff my parents made in immigrating to the United States. While neither of them pursued a career in entrepreneurship per se, the risk/reward profile they took was seared in my brain.”
–Sam Yagan

June 5, 2023 (Monday)

“Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet”
— Dr. Dre

June 6, 2023 (Tuesday)

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
— Tim Ferriss

June 7, 2023 (Wednesday)

“I was an Army brat. My best friend and I imported candy from the U.S., ate as much as we wanted, and sold the rest . We were turning $50 a day during lunch breaks. Unfortunately, [we] ran into regulatory trouble with the assistant principal.”
–Trey Gordner

June 8, 2023 (Thursday)

“Someday is not a day of the week.”
–Janet Dailey

June 9, 2023 (Friday)

“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
— Robert Kennedy

June 10, 2023 (Saturday)

“Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it’s about having a lot of options.”
–Chris Rock

June 11, 2023 (Sunday)

“I’m a big believer in the power of inexperience. It was the greatest asset I had when I started TFA. If I had known at the outset how hard it was going to be, I might never have started.”
–Wendy Kopp

June 12, 2023 (Monday)

“The key of interviewing is listening. If you don’t listen, you’re not a good interviewer. … I concentrate solely on the answer, and I trust my instincts to come up with [more] questions.”
–Larry King

June 13, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.”
— Terry Crews

June 14, 2023 (Wednesday)

“The evidence overwhelmingly points to the physical body not being all that we are. There seems to be something that is able to continue after the body dies. I don’t know what to make of it.”
–Dr. Bruce Greyson

June 15, 2023 (Thursday)

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

June 16, 2023 (Friday)

“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”
–Viktor E. Frankl

June 17, 2023 (Saturday)

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”
–Andy Rooney

June 18, 2023 (Sunday)

“It isn’t hard to be good from time to time. What is tough is being good every day.”
–Willie Mays

June 19, 2023 (Monday)

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But, someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
–Steve Jobs

June 20, 2023 (Tuesday)

“The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.”
–Robert J. Waldinger, of the Harvard Grant Study

June 21, 2023 (Wednesday)

“We were surprised and very happy. We don’t know for who, but we are happy for somebody.”
–Richard Ravenscroft, owner a convenience store somebody bought a winning $731 million Powerball ticket.

June 22, 2023 (Thursday)

“Maybe you’re not perfect, but you’re willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That’s a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there’s something incredibly hopeful about that.”
–Brie Larson

June 23, 2023 (Friday)

“If the thing that I wanted most had happened … I wouldn’t be where I am.”
–Conan O’Brien

June 24, 2023 (Saturday)

“When sitting in meditation, say, That’s not my business! with every thought that comes by.”
— Ajahn Chah

June 25, 2023 (Sunday)

“I had COVID. It legit took me out for three weeks. I thought I was going to die. But in some ways it gave me a new lease on life, and this idea of, ‘I don’t always know if I have tomorrow.’ So therefore, I’m very cognizant of what I’m doing today, and the legacy I’m leaving behind, and trying to leave people better than I found them, and leave glitter in my wake.”
–Christy Cole

June 26, 2023 (Monday)

“When you think about the things that you will regret when you’re 80, they’re almost always the things that you did not do. They’re acts of omission. Very rarely are you going to regret something that you did that failed … I’m not just talking about business things. It’s like, ‘I love that person and I never told them,’ and you know, 50 years later you’re like, ‘Why didn’t I tell her? Why didn’t I go after it?'”
–Jeff Bezos

June 27, 2023 (Tuesday)

“I got to a point where I said to myself, ‘Let it be in the past, just for your own mental health.'”
–Stefan Thomas, who reportedly has a digital wallet containing Bitcoin worth $220 million, if only he could remember the password.

June 28, 2023 (Wednesday)

“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”
–Brian Tracy

June 29, 2023 (Thursday)

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
–Aristotle

June 30, 2023 (Friday)

“Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.”
–Nat Wolff

July 1, 2023 (Saturday)

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton

July 2, 2023 (Sunday)

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
–Maya Angelou

July 3, 2023 (Monday)

“I’ll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.”
–Audie Murphy

July 4, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
–Napoleon Bonaparte

July 5, 2023 (Wednesday)

“I remember every detail. But I don’t suffer from it. … It helped me in life. And tragic as it was, it was a positive experience. I would never have been the way I am.”
–Samuel Pisar, Holocaust survivor who later became the stepfather of future U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken

July 6, 2023 (Thursday)

“The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
— Wayne Gretzky

July 7, 2023 (Friday)

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

July 8, 2023 (Saturday)

“Your fear of looking stupid is making you look stupid.”
–RuPaul

July 9, 2023 (Sunday)

“What is not started will never get finished.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

July 10, 2023 (Monday)

“Hope will never be silent.”
–Harvey Milk

July 11, 2023 (Tuesday)

“It’s not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.”
— B. J. Novak

July 12, 2023 (Wednesday)

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
— Bruce Lee

July 13, 2023 (Thursday)

“Life’s too mysterious; don’t take it serious.”
–George Gershwin

July 14, 2023 (Friday)

“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”
–Joe Namath

July 15, 2023 (Saturday)

“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.– H.G. Wells

July 16, 2023 (Sunday)

“Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.”
— Guy Kawasaki

July 17, 2023 (Monday)

“Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.”
— Nicole Kidman

July 18, 2023 (Tuesday)

“The w ay to get started is to quit talking and start doing.”
–Walt Disney

July 19, 2023 (Wednesday)

“If you’re too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.”
— Vince Gilligan

July 20, 2023 (Thursday)

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
— Marie Curie

July 21, 2023 (Friday)

“I’m no good at anything but comedy, which I think I’m good at. I’m absolutely no good at networking; I’m terrible at acting; I’m terrible at dealing with executives; I’m terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I’m good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don’t really have an ambition for money.”
–Norm MacDonald

July 22, 2023 (Saturday)

“It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance to make a difference. You can always make a change for the better no matter what background you derived from. You can always do your best and be all that you can be because you will always be uniquely you. It is why it is always wise to listen to your eternal heart, your eternal instincts, and what it had always strove for and/or to do because really anybody can make a difference not only in their own lives but in the lives of others. It is never too late to shine; never.”
— George Eliot

July 23, 2023 (Sunday)

“People think I’m an overnight success. No. It’s just that you all found me overnight.”
— Leslie Jones

July 24, 2023 (Monday)

“Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.”
–Taylor Swift

July 25, 2023 (Tuesday)

“When you meet somebody for the first time, you’re not meeting them. You’re meeting their representative.”
— Chris Rock

July 26, 2023 (Wednesday)

“It is not very often that an opportunity comes knocking. But when it does, you’d better be bathed and dressed and ready to answer its call.”
–Jyoti Arora

July 27, 2023 (Thursday)

“It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.”
— Jonah Hill

July 28, 2023 (Friday)

“Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.”
–Oscar Wilde

July 29, 2023 (Saturday)

“The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself… The more you learn, the more you’ll earn.”
— Warren Buffett

July 30, 2023 (Sunday)

“If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.”
–James Goldsmith

July 31, 2023 (Monday)

“To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.”
— Rosa Parks

August 1, 2023 (Tuesday)

“The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.”
–Anonymous

August 2, 2023 (Wednesday)

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end.”
— Gilda Radner

August 3, 2023 (Thursday)

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
–Jim Rohn

August 4, 2023 (Friday)

“Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.”
— Emma Thompson

August 5, 2023 (Saturday)

“Every noble work is at first impossible.”
–Thomas Carlyle

August 6, 2023 (Sunday)

“If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you’re active in your community, there’s nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.”
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

August 7, 2023 (Monday)

“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
— Aristotle

August 8, 2023 (Tuesday)

“The people you work with are people you were just thrown together with. I mean, you don’t know them. It wasn’t your choice. And yet you spend more time with them than you do your friends or your family…”
–Martin Freeman (on the British version of The Office)

August 9, 2023 (Wednesday)

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
–Benjamin Franklin

August 10, 2023 (Thursday)

“You can always tell someone to go to hell tomorrow. … You haven’t missed the opportunity. Just forget about it for a day. If you feel the same way tomorrow, tell them. But, don’t spout off in a moment of anger.”
–Warren Buffett

August 11, 2023 (Friday)

“You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.”
–Gabrielle Union

August 12, 2023 (Saturday)

“True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.”
–John Hay

August 13, 2023 (Sunday)

“Gifts are easy–they’re given, after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.”
–Jeff Bezos

August 14, 2023 (Monday)

“Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.”
— Kieran Culkin

August 15, 2023 (Tuesday)

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
–Vincent Van Gogh

August 16, 2023 (Wednesday)

“When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It’s simple: if you aren’t willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is.”
— T. Harv Eker

August 17, 2023 (Thursday)

“There’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.”
–Eddie Van Halen

August 18, 2023 (Friday)

“People should be paid the amount necessary to elicit their work. I, however, am paid to do what I would do without pay.”
–George Will

August 19, 2023 (Saturday)

“There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.”
–Robert A. Heinlein

August 20, 2023 (Sunday)

“The pursuit of happiness can ironically undermine well-being.”
–Aekyoung Kim

August 21, 2023 (Monday)

“The best way out is always through.”
–Robert Frost

August 22, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”
–Andrew Carnegie

August 23, 2023 (Wednesday)

“Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”
— Jodie Foster

August 24, 2023 (Thursday)

“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”
–Babe Ruth

August 25, 2023 ( Friday)

“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”
–Howard Ruff

August 26, 2023 (Saturday)

“An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you.”
— Indra Nooyi

August 27, 2023 (Sunday)

“I want to thank Ken Behrens for doing the right thing.”
–Australian television (an official actually said “Canberrans, meaning people from Canberra, but a closed caption transcriber misheard)

August 28, 2023 (Monday)

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
–Oscar Wilde

August 29, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
— Gautama Buddha

August 30, 2023 (Wednesday)

“People invest a lot in finding someone who’s compatible, but our research says that may not be the ‘end-all, be-all,’ Chopik explained. Instead, people may want to ask, ‘Are they a nice person?’ ‘Do they have a lot of anxiety?’ Those things matter way more.”
–Dr. Bill Chopik

August 31, 2023 (Thursday)

“I branded myself. I created a thing called the Salinger Group. I started saying ‘we’ instead of ‘I.’ My now-wife who was then my best friend designed a business card for me that was gorgeous. I had a website that said tons and tons of nothing and no physical address and no contact information other than an email address. And the funniest thing would happen. I’d come to things like this. I’d be talking to somebody and hand them my card and they’d say, the Salinger Group, huh? I know you guys. You do good work.”
–Chris Sacca

September 1, 2023 (Friday)

“To those wondering about giving while living: Try it. You’ll like it.”
–Charles Feeney, former billionaire, who gave away virtually his entire net worth.

September 2, 2023 (Saturday)

“To scale, do things that do not scale”
–Reid Hoffman

September 3, 2023 (Sunday)

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consci ousness that created it.”
–Albert Einstein

September 4, 2023 (Monday)

“Happiness is not a goal. It’s a by-product of a life well-lived.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt

September 5, 2023 (Tuesday)

“If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.”
— Shakti Gawain

September 6, 2023 (Wednesday)

“We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists.”
–Thomas Jefferson

September 7, 2023 (Thursday)

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
–Margaret Fuller

September 8, 2023 (Friday)

“There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.”
— Joseph Campbell

September 9, 2023 (Saturday)

“If a guy doesn’t like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.”
–Bill Hader

September 10, 2023 (Sunday)

“More men have become great through practice than by nature.”
–Democritus

September 11, 2023 (Monday)

“In the startup world, you’re either a genius or an idiot. You’re never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.”
— Marc Andreessen

September 12, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Everyone you meet in life is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
–Tim Ferris

September 13, 2023 (Wednesday)

“A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.”
–Robert Murray M’Cheyne

September 14, 2023 (Thursday)

“You were born with everything you need to answer the call of your soul.”
— Marie Forleo

September 15, 2023 (Friday)

“You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.”
–Shakira

September 16, 2023 (Saturday)

“Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten – it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.”
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

September 17, 2023 (Sunday)

“A roll-up-your-sleeves- and-pitch-in mindset, a mindset that says, there’s some unpleasant work, someone’s got to do it, it might as well be me … that’s what gets you ahead in the workplace.”
–Julie Lythcott Holmes

September 18, 2023 (Monday)

“What we hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”
–Samuel Johnson

September 19, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Hire character. Train skill.”
–Peter Schutz

September 20, 2023 (Wednesday)

“There’s a bizarre lunatic fringe who feel I owe them a living,” Mr. Dahl told The Associated Press in 1988. “Sometimes I look back and wonder if my life wouldn’t have been simpler if I hadn’t done it.”
–Gary Dahl

September 21, 2023 (Thursday)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
–George Bernard Shaw

September 22, 2023 (Friday)

“We’d write these serious songs and sell nothing. And then, whoa, ‘I Love Hugh Grant’ made like 74 cents last month! Farley told me in a phone interview. Most people would quit, but I was like, if I can make 20,000 songs that are as successful as ‘I Love Hugh Grant,’ I’ll be doing pretty well!”
–Matt Farley, Amazon musician

September 23, 2023 (Saturday)

“If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.”
— Cate Blanchett

September 24, 2023 (Sunday)

“You can change. And you can be an agent of change.”
— Laura Dern

September 25, 2023 (Monday)

“I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars-I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”
–Warren Buffett

September 26, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
–Voltaire

September 27, 2023 (Wednesday)

“I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.”
— Colin Firth

September 28, 2023 (Thursday)

“The longer you’re in the game, the hotter you are.”
–Bonnie Guterl

September 29, 2023 (Friday)

“It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life’s next adventure. “
–Brian Acton, WhatsApp co-founder, earlier, after being turned down for a job at Facebook

September 30, 2023 (Saturday)

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

October 1, 2023 (Sunday)

“Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”
–Michael Ende

October 2, 2023 (Monday)

“Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself.”
— Clinton Anderson

October 3, 2023 (Tuesday)

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
–Bertrand Russell

October 4, 2023 (Wednesday)

“What we think, we become.”
–Buddha

October 5, 2023 (Thursday)

“The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.”
— Dave Chappelle

October 6, 2023 (Friday)

“What a memory! Also no Amazon if it weren’t for this, since he decided not to pursue physics!”
–Yasantha Rajakarunanayake, after Jeff Bezos reminisced about the smartest person he knew at Princeton

October 7, 2023 (Saturday)

“There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.”
–Cesar Chavez

October 8, 2023 (Sunday)

“Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.”
— Kate Winslet

October 9, 2023 (Monday)

“We should always have three friends in our lives: one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.”
— Michelle Obama

October 10, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”
— Kurt Cobain

October 11, 2023 (Wednesday)

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
–Billie Jean King

October 12, 2023 (Thursday)

“There’s a reason we cherish our national treasures in human form: It’s because, while their artistry, their talent, their awesome presence, is truly a gift they’re not required to share, they reward us by opening themselves up and letting us in.”
–Ramona Grigg

October 13, 2023 (Friday)

“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
— Leo Buscaglia

October 14, 2023 (Saturday)

“Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.”
–Nelson Mandella

October 15, 2023 (Sunday)

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
— Kurt Vonnegut

October 16, 2023 (Monday)

“We are obsessed with the idea that some people are more creative than others, Fletcher said. But the reality is that we’re just not training creativity in the right way.”
–Angus Fletcher

October 17, 2023 (Tuesday)

“The mind is like Velcro for negative experiences, and Teflon for positive ones.”
–Rick Hanson

October 18, 2023 (Wednesday)

“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
— John D. Rockefeller

October 19, 2023 (Thursday)

“It’s tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5 a.m. when you’ve been sleeping in silk pajamas.”
–Marvin Hagler

October 20, 2023 (Friday)

“If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.”
— Ellen DeGeneres

October 21, 2023 (Saturday)

“I knew all the rules but the r ules did not know me.”
–Eddie Vedder

October 22, 2023 (Sunday)

“God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God’s love for us.”
— Saint Peter

October 23, 2023 (Monday)

“If life seems jolly rotten, there’s something you’ve forgotten! And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing.”
–Monty Python

October 24, 2023 (Tuesday)

“I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.”
— Bill Gates

October 25, 2023 (Wednesday)

“We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”
–Marianne Williamson

October 26, 2023 (Thursday)

“It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”
— Betty White

October 27, 2023 (Friday)

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.”
–Catherine Cook

October 28, 2023 (Saturday)

“Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive, because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive, because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.”
–Mahatma Gandhi

October 29, 2023 (Sunday)

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
— C. S. Lewis

October 30, 2023 (Monday)

“Never burn bridges. Today’s junior jerk, tomorrow’s senior partner.”
— Sigourney Weaver

October 31, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Whatever you do, do it completely. Don’t do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.”
— Christian Bale

November 1, 2023 (Wednesday)

“The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.”
–Armistead Maupin

November 2, 2023 (Thursday)

“I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.”
–Jimmy Stewart

November 3, 2023 (Friday)

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
— Laozi

November 4, 2023 (Saturday)

“I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.”
–Albert Einstein

November 5, 2023 (Sunday)

“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”
–Muhammad Ali

November 6, 2023 (Monday)

“We’ll start the war from right here!”
–Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

November 7, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.”
— Kris Carr

November 8, 2023 (Wednesday)

“I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.”
— Ralph Abernathy

November 9, 2023 (Thursday)

“I stay fat because it just wouldn’t be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It’s a public service really.”
— Rebel Wilson

November 10, 2023 (Friday)

“Here’s a true story, man. I learned English because of you. My grandfather who raised me…I used to sit on his lap and listen to you every day. So, it’s a pretty special moment for me, man. Thank you very much.”
–Burt Thackur, Jeopardy! contestant, to Alex Trebek on one of Trebek’s last shows

November 11, 2023 (Saturday)

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
–Sun Tzu

November 12, 2023 (Sunday)

“I know for sure that what we dwell on is what we become.”
–Oprah Winfrey

November 13, 2023 (Monday)

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.”
–John A. Shedd

November 14, 2023 (Tuesday)

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”
— Peter Drucker

November 15, 2023 (Wednesday)

“If you want to change who you are, you have to change what you do.”
–Jim Rohn

November 16, 2023 (Thursday)

“I have no explanation for it, but I do firmly believe that modest drinking improves longevity.”
–Claudia Kawas, scientist whose work shows people in cultures where drinking wine is common live longer

November 17, 2023 (Friday)

“I don’t want it to have happened. I want it to not have happened, but if you are grateful for your life … then you have to be grateful for all of it. You can’t pick and choose what you’re grateful for. So, what do you get from loss? You get awareness of other people’s loss, which allows you to connect with that other person, which allows you to love more deeply and to understand what it’s like to be a human being, if it’s true that all humans suffer.”
–Stephen Colbert, on the death of his father and two brothers in a plane crash when he was a child

November 18, 2023 (Saturday)

“Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
–Jose Luis Borges

November 19, 2023 (Sunday)

“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”
— Nikola Tesla

November 20, 2023 (Monday)

“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.”
— John C. Maxwell

November 21, 2023 (Tuesday)

“When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.”
–Dr. Armand Hammer

November 22, 2023 (Wednesday)

“There are no working hours for leaders.”
–James Cardinal Gibbons

November 23, 2023 (Thursday)

“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
–Ronald Reagan

November 24, 2023 (Friday)

“Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”
— Tony Robbins

November 25, 2023 (Saturday)

“Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”
— Denzel Washington

November 26, 2023 (Sunday)

“Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It’s a lot of things. It’s something you can’t be afraid of, because you’ll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.”
— Debbie Allen

November 27, 2023 (Monday)

“Never let anyone try and make you into something that you’re not. Remember what it is that you want, and always stay strong in that.”
— Abigail Breslin

November 28, 2023 (Tuesday)

“I didn’t know how to do fancy.”
–Craig Newmark, explaining why the design for Craigslist was so simple

November 29, 2023 (Wednesday)

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
— Les Brown

November 30, 2023 (Thursday)

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
–Seneca

December 1, 2023 (Friday)

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
–Alan Kay

December 2, 2023 (Saturday)

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
–Reinhold Niebuhr

December 3, 2023 (Sunday)

“You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.”
–Emmet Fox

December 4, 2023 (Monday)

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. ادامه بده If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”
— Harriet Tubman

December 5, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage”
— Matt Damon

December 6, 2023 (Wednesday)

“I’m so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say, ‘That’s none of your business.'”
— Demetri Martin

December 7, 2023 (Thursday)

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk,? but no flowers grow on it.”
— Vincent Van Gogh

December 8, 2023 (Friday)

“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”
–George R.R. Martin

December 9, 2023 (Saturday)

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
— W. E. B. Du Bois

December 10, 2023 (Sunday)

“Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.”
— Susana Martinez

December 11, 2023 (Monday)

“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.”
— Mother Teresa

December 12, 2023 (Tuesday)

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
–Anonymous

December 13, 2023 (Wednesday)

“Gifts are easy. They’re given, after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices.”
–Jeff Bezos

December 14, 2023 (Thursday)

“When you’re an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, ‘I’ll show ’em. I will show you.'”
— Wendy Williams

December 15, 2023 (Friday)

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
–Franklin D. Roosevelt

December 16, 2023 (Saturday)

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
–Martin Luther King

December 17, 2023 (Sunday)

“If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.”
–Paulo Coelho

December 18, 2023 (Monday)

“Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.”
— Cesar Chavez

December 19, 2023 (Tuesday)

“People have confused playing devil’s advocate with being intelligent.”
— Cecily Strong

December 20, 2023 (Wednesday)

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
–Carl Bard

December 21, 2023 (Thursday)

“The best protection any woman can have… is courage.”
–Elizabeth Cady Stanton

December 22, 2023 (Friday)

“Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.”
— Billie Jean King

December 23, 2023 (Saturday)

“In terms of my own life goals, it became, how do you rest ore the situation? How can you transform your life? What are the enabling conditions that allow people to go from being victims to being victors?”
–Walter Mischel

December 24, 2023 (Sunday)

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.”
— Steve Martin

December 25, 2023 (Monday)

“I didn’t like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.”
— Daniel Day-Lewis

December 26, 2023 (Tuesday)

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
–Bob Marley

December 27, 2023 (Wednesday)

“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”
— Mick Jagger

December 28, 2023 (Thursday)

“Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.”
— Mike Tyson

December 29, 2023 (Friday)

“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
–Bertrand Russell

December 30, 2023 (Saturday)

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
–Harry S. Truman

December 31, 2023 (Sunday)

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
–Michael Altshuler