Motivational Gallery
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
Jacques Yves Cousteau
(on love for nature)
“Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(on confidence)
“Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.”
Zig Ziglar
(on time)
“Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.”
Michelle Obama
(on self-care)
“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
(on habits)
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee
(on focus)
“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
Sigmund Freud
(on true values)
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
Mother Theresa
(on love)
“You can have it all. Just not all at once.”
Oprah Winfrey
(on patience)
“Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”
Robin S. Sharma
(on realizing dreams)
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
John Lennon
(on having dreams)
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
(on courage)
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill
(on courage)
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(on self-education)
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde
(on self-confidence)
“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
Madonna
(on self-improvement)
“It’s the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too — pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place.”
Jennifer Lopez
(on embracing failures)
“In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.”
Shakira
(on success)
“I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.”
Beyoncé
(on evolving)
“I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.”
Lady Gaga
(on being unique)
“Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It’s not a big deal. It makes me happy.”
Samuel L. Jackson
(on doing what you love)
“Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.”
Al Pacino
(on building success)
“I will not let myself down like that -- I also know what feels good and it doesn't feel good to harbor anger and resentment ... We do have tools to work through stuff. Everybody does.”
Jennifer Aniston
(on emotional strength)
“The thing about courage is it’s something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It’s not just in you, it’s in every choice we make every day.”
Gerard Butler
(on courage)
“Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy lie and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.”
Keanu Reeves
(on money)
“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up."
Pablo Picasso
(on being artist)
“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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
(on having the courage to live fully)
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
(on importance to pursue)
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
(on realizing dreams)
“Replace fear with curiosity”.
Steven Spielberg
(on embracing fear)
“Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(on open-mindset)
“If you take no risk you’ll suffer no defeats, but if you take no risks you win no victories.”
Richard Nixon
(on risk-taking)
“The best way to predict the future is to create it”
Abraham Lincoln
(on future)
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
John F. Kennedy
(on accomplishments)
“Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.”
Barack Obama
(on constant growth)
“The one thing I wished that I had learned the first I started as a Director was that all I really needed was confidence, and a pen and a paper… The truth is that everything you have to know is inside of you, every decision-making process is instinctual, and as long as you have a pen and a paper to write it down, you get it.”
Jodie Foster
(on directing)
“In Italy, there are certain customs you can’t touch: the pope, the soccer team and the traditions. The rest? You can do whatever you want.
Massimo Bottura
(on Italy)
“Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.”
Carlos Santana
(on problem-solving)
“I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.”
Helen Mirren
(on fears)
“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”
Sara Blakely
(on uniqueness)
“Keep everybody guessing as to what your next trick is going to be. Don’t become too predictable.”
Sam Walton
(on strategy)
“I think it is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no better than none), will tend to slow progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.”
Elon Musk
(on management)
“If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.”
Jeff Bezos
(on opportunity)
“10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.”
Will Smith
(on love)
“None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an afterthought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.”
Anthony Hopkins
(on true values)
“My body is so important to me... my face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have.”
Monica Bellucci
(on personal body)
“Create your own style… Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
Anna Wintour
(on personal style)
“Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.”
Donatella Versace
(on fashion)
“The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.”
Audrey Hepburn
(on beauty)
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
Coco Chanel
(on fashion)
“I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.”
Michael Bloomberg
(on morality)
“The question I ask myself almost every day is, “Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?” … Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. “
Mark Zuckerberg
(on time)
“No problem can be solved until it is reduced to same simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. “
J. P. Morgan
(on problem solving)
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
John Rockefeller
(on success)
“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
J.K. Rowling
(on integrity)
“It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty, then to stay in a painful wealth.”
Michael Bassey Johnson
(on peace of mind)
“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.”
Ralph Marston
(on happiness)
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
Vincent Van Gogh
(on courage to do what’s right)
“A simple smile. That’s the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.”
Dalai Lama
(on being kind)
“I’m convinced of this: good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.”
Maya Angelou
(on doing good)