Quotes for CNC Router Projects

Sometimes your project just needs that perfect quote to personalize it. Below are some quotes that we found and liked. Feel free to use them in your projects.
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When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.

―Carol Burnett

Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'

―Audrey Hepburn

There is nothing impossible to they who will try.

―Alexander the Great

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

―Michael Altshuler

Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.

―Walt Whitman

You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box.

―Duchess Meghan

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

― Winston Churchill

You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.

―Oprah Winfrey

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

―Malala Yousafzai

Spread love everywhere you go.

―Mother Teresa

If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is.

―Gabrielle Bernstein

You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.

―Mandy Hale

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

―Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.

―Brene Brown

I’m going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn’t promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It’s the only thing I can help. If I didn’t have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?

―Hayley Williams

Belief creates the actual fact.

―William James

I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.

―Ava DuVernay

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

―Aristotle

Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.

―Marie Forleo

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

― Theodore Roosevelt

Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment.

―Marianne Cantwell

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

―Ella Fitzgerald

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

―Marlee Matlin

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

―Mahatma Gandhi

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen—that stillness becomes a radiance.

―Morgan Freeman

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

―Anne Frank

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

―Earl Nightingale

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

―Roald Dahl

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

―Maya Angelou

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

―Joseph Campbell

Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied.

―Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

―Jay-Z

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

―Eleanor Roosevelt

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

―Henry David Thoreau

Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures.

―Joelle Speranza

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

― Albert Einstein

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

― William Ellery Channing

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

―Bruce Springsteen

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one!

―Dolly Parton

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

―Rosa Parks

The moral of my story is the sun always comes out after the storm. Being optimistic and surrounding yourself with positive loving people is for me, living life on the sunny side of the street.

―Janice Dean

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.

―Dr. Henry Link

We are not our best intentions. We are what we do.

―Amy Dickinson

I’ve noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I’m grateful in the end.

―Colleen Hoover

When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

―George Harrison

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

―Martin Luther King, Jr.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

― Zig Ziglar

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

―C.S. Lewis

How wild it was, to let it be.

―Cheryl Strayed

The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift.

―L. A. Villafane

Don’t be afraid. Because you’re going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don’t be afraid.

―Joan Jett

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts today.

―Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

―George Eliot

You do not find the happy life. You make it.

―Camilla Eyring Kimball

When we let fear be our master, we cannot be happy and free as a butterfly. But when we choose to trust the journey and embrace love and joy, we are free to fly.

―Annicken R. Day

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

―Toni Morrison

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

―Deepak Chopra

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

―Eckhart Tolle

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

―Vince Lombardi

We have to let go of who we think we should be and embrace what is.

―Achea Redd

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

―Sir Francis Bacon

I don’t look ahead. I’m right here with you. It’s a good way to be.

―Danny DeVito

It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.

―Rocky Balboa

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more.

―Aretha Franklin

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

― Helen Keller

Let love rule.

―Lenny Kravitz

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

―John Muir

The only journey is the one within.

―Rainer Maria Rilke

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

―Muhammad Ali

Embrace the glorious mess that you are.

―Elizabeth Gilbert

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

―Rabindranath Tagore

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

― Napoleon Hill

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

― Albert Einstein

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

― Robert Frost

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

― Florence Nightingale

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

― Wayne Gretzky

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

― Amelia Earhart

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

― Babe Ruth

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

― W. Clement Stone

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

― John Lennon

We become what we think about.

― Earl Nightingale

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t 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.

― Mark Twain

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

― Charles Swindoll

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

― Alice Walker

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

― Buddha

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

― Chinese Proverb

An unexamined life is not worth living.

― Socrates

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

― Woody Allen

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

― Steve Jobs

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

― Vince Lombardi

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

― Stephen Covey

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

― Pablo Picasso

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

― Christopher Columbus

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

― Maya Angelou

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

― Jim Rohn

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

― Henry Ford

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

― Mark Twain

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best revenge is massive success.

― Frank Sinatra

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.

― Zig Ziglar

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

― Anais Nin

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

― Vincent Van Gogh

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

― Aristotle

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

― Henry David Thoreau

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

― Erma Bombeck

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

― Booker T. Washington

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.

― Ancient Indian Proverb

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

― Theodore Roosevelt

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

― George Addair

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

― Plato

Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know," and thous shalt progress.

― Maimonides

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

― Arthur Ashe

When 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 ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

― John Lennon

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

― Japanese Proverb

When 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.

― Helen Keller

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.

― Confucius

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

― Anne Frank

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

― Lao Tzu

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

― Maya Angelou

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.

― Dalai Lama

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

― Aristotle

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

― Latin Proverb

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.

― Unknown

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

― Marie Curie

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

― Les Brown

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

― Joshua J. Marine

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

― Booker T. Washington

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

― Leonardo da Vinci

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

― Jamie Paolinetti

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.

― Erica Jong

What’s 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.

― Bob Dylan

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

― Benjamin Franklin

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

― Albert Einstein

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

― Chinese Proverb

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

― Roger Staubach

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

― George Eliot

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

― Vincent van Gogh

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

― Unknown

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.

― Ann Landers

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

― Abigail Van Buren

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

― Farrah Gray

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at.

― Jesse Owens

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

― Sir Claus Moser

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

― Rosa Parks

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

― Confucius

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

― Oprah Winfrey

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

― Dalai Lama

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

― Maya Angelou

Dream big and dare to fail.

― Norman Vaughan

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

― Martin Luther King Jr.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

― Teddy Roosevelt

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

― Tony Robbins

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

― Gloria Steinem

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

― Mae Jemison

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

― Beverly Sills

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

― Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

― Grandma Moses

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

― Ayn Rand

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

― Henry Ford

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

― Abraham Lincoln

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

― Norman Vincent Peale

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

― Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”

― Audrey Hepburn

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

― Steve Jobs

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

― Zig Ziglar

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

― Mahatma Gandhi

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

― Friedrich Nietzsche

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

― Bernard M. Baruch

We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.

― Virginia Satir

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

― Theodore Roosevelt

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

― Oscar Wilde

This above all: to thine own self be true.

― William Shakespeare

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

― Napoleon Hill

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

― Milton Berle

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

― Plato

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

― Albert Einstein

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

― Robert Frost

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

― John Wooden

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

― Mark Twain

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

― Thomas Edison

A journey of a thousand leagues begins beneath one’s feet.

― Lao Tzu

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

― Maya Angelou

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

― Jim Rohn

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

― Anais Nin

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

― Mahatma Gandhi

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

― Charles Kettering

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

― Jimmy Johnson

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

― Alan Kay

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

― Rabbi Hillel

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.

― Confucius

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

― Theodore Roosevelt

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

― Anne Frank

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

― Albert Einstein

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

― Norman Vincent

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

― Dalai Lama

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

― Roy M. Goodman

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

― Les Brown

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

― Booker T. Washington

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

― Wayne Gretzky

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

― George Eliot

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

― Albert Einstein

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

― Chinese Proverb

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

― Eleanor Roosevelt

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

― Mae West

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

― Mark Twain

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

― Helen Keller

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

― Oscar Wilde

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

― Martin Luther King

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.

― Oprah Winfrey

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

― Eleanor Roosevelt

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

― Lao Tzu

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

― Edith Wharton

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

― Colin R. Davis

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

― Stephen R. Covey

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

― Robert Frost

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self control — these three alone lead to power.

― Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

― Henry Ford

He who angers you conquers you.

― Elizabeth Kenny

Beauty, without expression, tires.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

― Aristotle Onassis

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

― Oprah Winfrey

We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

― E.E. Cummings

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

― Benjamin Franklin

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

― Aristotle

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

― George Bernard Shaw

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

― Albert Camus

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.'

― Mary Anne Radmacher

Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

― Wu Ting-Fang

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

― Helen Keller

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

― Eleanor Roosevelt

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

― Oscar Wilde

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

― Socrates

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

― Leonardo da Vinci

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

― Winston Churchill

Children are our most valuable resource.

― Herbert Hoover

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

― Jean Anouilh

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

― Lao Tzu

Peace begins with a smile.

― Mother Teresa

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

― Maya Angelou

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

― Elbert Hubbard

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

― Benjamin Franklin

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.

― Frank Wilczek

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

― Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.

― Unknown

When you judge another, you do not define them; you define yourself.

― Wayne Dyer

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

― Thomas Edison

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.

― Swedish Proverb

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

― Helen Keller

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

― E. Joseph Cossman

The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.

― Zig Ziglar

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

― Joe Clark

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open.

― Frank Zappa

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

― Chinese Proverbs

When you are totally at peace with yourself, nothing can shake you.

― Deepam Chatterjee

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

― Judy Garland

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

― Thomas Edison

Others can stop you temporarily – you are the only one who can do it permanently.

― Zig Ziglar

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

― Les Brown

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

― Muhammad Ali

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

― John Keats

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

― Ernest Hemingway

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

― Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is nothing permanent except change.

― Heraclitus

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

― Indira Gandhi

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

― A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

― Niccolo Machiavelli

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

― Amelia Earhart

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

― Henry James

Learning never exhausts the mind.

― Leonardo da Vinci

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

― Jane Austen

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

― Edgar Allan Poe

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

― Francis of Assisi

The only journey is the one within.

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

― Will Rogers

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

― William Blake

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

― Khalil Gibran

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

― Aesop

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

― Karl A. Menninger

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

― Satchel Paige

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

― George Washington

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

― Napoleon Hill

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

― Thomas Carlyle

Independence is happiness.

― Susan B. Anthony

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

― Sun Tzu

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

― Walt Whitman

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

― Sigmund Freud

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

― George Orwell

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

― John Galsworthy

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

― Albert Einstein

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

― Aldous Huxley

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

― Thomas Jefferson

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

― Lao Tzu

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

― Edith Wharton

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

― Samuel Beckett

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

― Voltaire

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

― Edward Everett Hale

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

― Simone de Beauvoir

Not all those who wander are lost.

― J. R. R. Tolkien

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

― Anne Frank

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

― Thomas A. Edison

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

― Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

― Thomas Aquinas

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

― John C. Maxwell

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

― Marcus Aurelius

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

― George Sand

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

― Milton Berle

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

― Mark Twain

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

― Marcel Proust

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

― Margaret Mead

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

― Plato

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

― Thomas Paine

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

― Viktor E. Frankl

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

― Robert H. Schuller

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

― Plutarch

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

― Mother Teresa

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

― Friedrich Nietzsche

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

― Walt Disney

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

― William Shakespeare

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

― Henry David Thoreau

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

― Leo Buscaglia

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

― Swami Vivekananda

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

― Euripides

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

― Desmond Tutu

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

― Soren Kierkegaard

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

― George Bernard Shaw

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

― Socrates

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

― Confucius

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

― Ingrid Bergman

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

― Judy Garland

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

― A. A. Milne

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

― John F. Kennedy

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

― Martin Luther King Jr.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

― Theodore Roosevelt

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

― Democritus

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

― William Arthur Ward

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

― Dr. Seuss

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

― Nelson Mandela

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

― Norman Vincent Peale

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

― Robert Frost

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

― Loretta Young

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

― Albert Camus

Do all things with love.

― Og Mandino

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

― Winston Churchill

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.

― Muriel Strode

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

― Aristotle

Where there is love there is life.

― Mahatma Gandhi

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

― Edmund Burke

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

― Buddha

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

― Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

― Audrey Hepburn

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

― Joseph Campbell

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

― Maya Angelou

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

― Aristotle Onassis

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

― Oscar Wilde

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

― Helen Keller

If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.

― Mario Andretti

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played sever years without ever hitting the ball.

― Mickey Mantle

I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.

― Martina Navratilova

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.

― Satchel Paige

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

― Sandy Koufax

I’ve missed more than 9000 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

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.

― Vince Lombardi

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

― John Wooden

If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?

― Joe Namath

You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.

― Arthur Ashe

I love me some me.

― Terrell Owens

I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked.

― Muhammad Ali

I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.

― Jerry Rice

When you’re rich, you don’t write checks. Straight cash, homie.

― Randy Moss

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

― Joe Theismann

I’m glad I don’t play anymore. I could never learn all of those handshakes.

― Phil Rizzuto

I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn’t get there as fast.

― Eddie Bane

I’d be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

― Pete Rose

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

― Jerry Tarkanian

Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

― Vince Lombardi

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

― Bobby Knight

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

― Paul Brown

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

― Billie Jean King

Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

― Paul Bryant

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

― Vin Scully

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

― George Steinbrenner

For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

― Emmitt Smith

No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.

― Bill Parcells

Winning solves everything.

― Tiger Woods

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

― Billie Jean King

I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

― Michael Jordan

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

― Muhammad Ali

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

― Tom Landry

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

― Mary Lou Retton

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.

― Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.

― Ernie Banks

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

― Bruce Jenner

There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.

― Derek Jeter

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.

― Knute Rockne

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

― Billie Jean King

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

― Evander Holyfield

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

― Arnold Palmer

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

― Pele

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.

― Fred Devito

Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.

― Billy Bowerman

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

― Emil Zatopek

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

― Michael Jordan

There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.

― Pat Riley

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

― Herb Brooks

The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

― Bobby Knight

I don’t plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously, we plan on winning.

― Gregg Troy

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

― Billie Jean King

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

― Charles Barkley

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.

― Jerry Rice

You might not be able to outthink, out market or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

― Lou Holtz

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself.

― Larry Brown

What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

― Dean Smith

I’ve failed over & over & over again in my life & that is why I succeed.

― Michael Jordan

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

― Jerry West

I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

― Larry Bird

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” “Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

― Babe Ruth

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

― John Wooden

If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.

― Mario Andretti

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

― Michael Phelps

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

― Wayne Gretzky

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

― Vince Lombardi

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

― John Wooden

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’

― Muhammad Ali

What keeps me going is not winning, but the quest for reaching potential in myself as a coach and my kids as divers. It’s the pursuit of excellence.

― Ron O’Brien

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

― Ross Perot

I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that’s true for a lot of women—sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.

― Teri McKeever

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

― Dan Gable

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

― Wayne Gretzky

The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

― Eddie Reese

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

― William A. Ward

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

― Muhammad Ali

Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.

― Venus Williams

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

― Lance Armstrong

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

― Pat Riley

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

― Vince Lombardi

If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

― Jack Lemmon

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

― Casey Stengel

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.

― Vince Lombardi

When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.

― Bill Shoemaker

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

― Michael Jordan

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

― Sam Huff

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

― Mike Singletary

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.

― Knute Rockne

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

― Vince Lombardi

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.

― Tommy Lasorda

The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

― Steve Young

There are certain basic qualities and characteristics you’ve got to have. Number one: you’ve got to have a will to win.

― Bob Richards

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day’s practice, that day’s competition, that day’s performance. They are always striving to be better. They don’t live in the past.

― Briana Scurry

Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.

― Knute Rockne

Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

― Paul Bryant

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.

― Earl Monroe

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

― Steve Nash

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.

― Wayne Gretzky

I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.

― Yogi Berra

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

― Muhammad Ali

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

― John Wooden

Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch court, the space between your ears.

― Bobby Jones

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

― Pele

You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.

― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

― Emil Zatopek

At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

― Arsene Wenger

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

― Tim Notke

Passion first and everything will fall into place.

― Holly Holm

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

― Sandy Koufax

I don’t have to wait for nobody, I move when I wanna move.

― Floyd Mayweather

Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside.

― Brett Favre

Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.

― Lou Brock

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

― Homer Rice

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

― Hank Aaron

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

― Picabo Street

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.

― Herschel Walker

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

― Ronnie Lott

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

― Carl Lewis

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

― Michael Jordan

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

― Lou Holtz

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

― Ted Williams

Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

― Larry Bird

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

― Joe Paterno

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

― Satchel Paige

You’re never a loser until you quit trying.

― Mike Ditka

I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

― Michael Jordan

Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.

― Jim Valvano

Winning solves everything.

― Tiger Woods

Life is gonna throw you curve balls and it’s how you deal with them and your attitude and your work ethic.

― Kerri Strug

For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

― Emmitt Smith

So many people along the way, whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can’t be done. But all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach.

― Michael Phelps

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

― Vin Scully

You’ll score a lot of goals in your career but not one of them will happen without the help of a teammate.

― Abby Wambach

It ain’t over till it’s over.

― Yogi Berra

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

― Arnold Palmer

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

― Billie Jean King

Some may have more talent than you, but there is no excuse for anyone working harder than you do.

― John Tavares

No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.

― Bill Parcells

To me the beauty of teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

― Coach Mike Krzyzewski

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

― George Steinbrenner

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

― Wayne Gretzky

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

― Paul Brown

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

― Vince Lombardi

If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?

― Joe Namath

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

― Andre Agassi

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.

― Tommy Lasorda

Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

― Wilma Rudolph

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

― Mia Hamm

I am no genius; I just worked hard like my other teammates, and I believe all my teammates can win the title as they work hard, too.

― Lin Dan

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.

― Yogi Berra

Kill them with success and bury them with a smile.

― Usain Bolt

I mean, it’s not important what kind of pants you were; it’s how you wear them.

― Ronnie Lott

I’ve had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

― Serena Williams

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

― Arthur Ashe

I wouldn’t let the boys down, no way. If my arm came off I’d still play.

― Jack Bird

I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal.

― Arthur Marshall

In baseball and in business, there are three types of people. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

― Tommy Lasorda

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

― Matt Biondi

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

― James Lane Allen

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

― Muhammad Ali

Goals prepare Olympic athletes physically and mentally. Did you know that goals are used by sports psychologists in order to help athletes improve their performance?

― Paul Bailey

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

― Arnold Schwarzenegger

In sports, players need to be reminded of their competition to become motivated to practice. The same can be applied in business.

― Gavin McGinnis

Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit.

― Mike Tyson

I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.

― Arnold Palmer

Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.

― Vince Lombardo

Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

― Rocky Balboa

At one point in your life you either have the thing you want or the reasons why you don’t.

― Andy Roddick

It never gets easier. You just get better.

― Jordan Hoechlin

Winners never quit and quitters never win. Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

― Heywood Broun

It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.

― Jillian Michaels

Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.

― Muhammad Ali

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

― Lance Armstrong

It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.

― Paul Bryant

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

― John Wooden

The best motivation always comes from within.

― Michael Johnson

The secret of winning football games is working more as a team, less as individuals. I play not my 11 best, but my best 11.

― Knute Rockne

To succeed…You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

― Tony Dorsett

You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

― Bobby Knight

Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

― Dan Reeves

The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

― Jackie Joyner Kersee

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

― Vernon Law

Don’t tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

― Lou Holtz

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

― “Babe” Ruth

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

― Phil Jackson

Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.

― Fredrik Backman

There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die.

― Charlie Higson

Never underestimate the heart of a champion!

― Doc Rivers

If you don’t fall, how are you going to know what getting up feels like?

― Stephen Curry

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

― Pat Conroy

Winning is a habit leadership is calmly maintaining that habit against all odds.

― Amit Ray

Losing teaches you how to win, winning teaches you how not to lose.

― Matshona Dhliwayo

You will never get the best out of anyone professionally unless you understand what motivates and makes them tick personally as a human being.

― Rasheed Ogunlaru

Nothing else will show your true character than how you lose.

― Ken Gleed

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

― Bobby Unser