Read on to find inspiration and motivation in the following words of wisdom that will uplift your spirit.

1. "If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got." ~Anonymous
2. "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." ~Herman Melville
3. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~Henry S. Haskins
   
4. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." ~Ray Goforth
5. "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly." ~Proverb
6. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." ~Thomas A. Edison
7. "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." ~Henry Ford
8. "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do." ~Anonymous
9. "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." ~Anonymous
10. "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." ~Bruce Feirstein
11. "Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." ~Lolly Daskal
12. "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." ~Thomas Jefferson
13. "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." ~Philippos
14. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." ~Mark Twain
15. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." ~ Jim Rohn
16. "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." ~Jim Ryun
17. "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." ~Wayne Dyer
18. "If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary." ~Jim Rohn
19. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~George Eliot
20. "If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door." ~Milton Berle
21. "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." ~Napoleon Hill
22. "Either you run the day, or the day runs you." ~Jim Rohn
23. "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." ~Albert Einstein
24. "If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it." ~Kim Garst
25. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
26. "No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist." ~ Anonymous
27. "Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it." ~Anonymous
28. " Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." ~Steve Jobs
29. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." ~Zig Ziglar
30. "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." ~Earl Nightingale