When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. 

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life

— Confucius

If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

Paul F. Davis

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it.

Katharine Whitehorn

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

Milton Berle

The future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.

Chris Grosser

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.

Steve Jobs

Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.

Paulo Coelho

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

Sheryl Sandberg

A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career. 

—Carlton Fisk

Work to become, not to acquire.

—Elbert Hubbard

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. 

—Michael Jordan

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet

—Robert H. Schuller

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

—Abraham Lincoln

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

—Jon Stewart

Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and again and bring their friend. 

— Walt Disney

Innovation distinguishes from a leader and a follower.

—Steve Jobs

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.

—Thomas Carlyle

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

—Lou Holtz

The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.

—Tricia Cunningham

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

—Henry David Thoreau

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway

—Earl Nightingale

Someday is not a day of the week

—Janet Dailey