diff --git a/motivate/__init__.py b/motivate/__init__.py index 1ac770d7..d5791768 100644 --- a/motivate/__init__.py +++ b/motivate/__init__.py @@ -1 +1,2 @@ -from motivate import quote \ No newline at end of file +from motivate import quote +from motivate.motivate.quotes_byAuthor import quotes_byAuthor \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/motivate/data_unique/quotes_byAuthor.json b/motivate/data_unique/quotes_byAuthor.json new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4f83afac --- /dev/null +++ b/motivate/data_unique/quotes_byAuthor.json @@ -0,0 +1,7951 @@ +{ + "data": { + "Ann Landers": { + "quotes": [ + "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." + ] + }, + "Michael Korda": { + "quotes": [ + "Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.", + "One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals." + ] + }, + "Lilly Singh": { + "quotes": [ + "There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work." + ] + }, + "Joshua Graham": { + "quotes": [ + "I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me." + ] + }, + "Winston Churchill": { + "quotes": [ + "If you're going through hell,\nKEEP GOING.", + "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.", + "The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.", + "If you’re going through hell keep going.", + "Never, never, never give up.", + "Success is going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.", + "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.", + "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.", + "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.", + "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.", + "If you're going through hell, keep going." + ] + }, + "Neil Patrick Harris": { + "quotes": [ + "There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs." + ] + }, + "Freddie Mercury": { + "quotes": [ + "I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend." + ] + }, + "Marina and the Diamonds": { + "quotes": [ + "There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently." + ] + }, + "Rick Pitino": { + "quotes": [ + "Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success." + ] + }, + "Grace Kelly": { + "quotes": [ + "I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does." + ] + }, + "T. Harv Eker": { + "quotes": [ + "If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!", + "The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change." + ] + }, + "Bruno Mars": { + "quotes": [ + "I think that success is having fun." + ] + }, + "Dean Koontz": { + "quotes": [ + "I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life." + ] + }, + "Lee Pearson": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm a gay disabled man who has become very successful. I don't get up in the morning and think I'm inspirational; I just get up thinking that I love horses." + ] + }, + "Thomas S. Monson": { + "quotes": [ + "Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t." + ] + }, + "H. Jackson Brown, Jr.": { + "quotes": [ + "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.", + "We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.", + "You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.", + "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.", + "Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others." + ] + }, + "Joseph Sugarman": { + "quotes": [ + "The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem & turned it into an opportunity." + ] + }, + "Wilma Rudolph": { + "quotes": [ + "When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome." + ] + }, + "Nelson Mandela": { + "quotes": [ + "It always seems impossible until it is done.", + "To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.", + "It always seems impossible until it's done. ", + "It always seems impossible until it's done.", + "There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.", + "Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will." + ] + }, + "Matthew Prior": { + "quotes": [ + "Hope is but the dream of those who wake." + ] + }, + "Sam Levenson": { + "quotes": [ + "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.", + "Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.", + "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." + ] + }, + "John Quincy Adams": { + "quotes": [ + "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." + ] + }, + "Bo Bennett": { + "quotes": [ + "Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.", + "When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.", + "Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.", + "A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success." + ] + }, + "Pierre-Joseph Proudhon": { + "quotes": [ + "When deeds speak, words are nothing." + ] + }, + "Sasha Grey": { + "quotes": [ + "Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am." + ] + }, + "Nigel Farage": { + "quotes": [ + "When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore." + ] + }, + "Golda Meir": { + "quotes": [ + "Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.", + "I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.", + "The dog that trots about finds a bone." + ] + }, + "Charlotte Whitton": { + "quotes": [ + "When one must, one can.", + "It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success." + ] + }, + "Harvey Weinstein": { + "quotes": [ + "I wanted to do something inspirational for my children." + ] + }, + "Socrates": { + "quotes": [ + "An unexamined life is not worth living.", + "All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine." + ] + }, + "Scudder N. Parker": { + "quotes": [ + "People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be." + ] + }, + "Aretha Franklin": { + "quotes": [ + "It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job." + ] + }, + "Plato": { + "quotes": [ + "Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.", + "One man cannot practice many arts with success.", + "A work well begun is half-ended.", + "Courage is knowing what not to fear.", + "The measure of a man is what he does with power.", + "The beginning is the most important part of the work.", + "Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.", + "Philosophy is the highest music." + ] + }, + "Sharon Begley": { + "quotes": [ + "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." + ] + }, + "Steven Sinofsky": { + "quotes": [ + "When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives." + ] + }, + "Simon Mainwaring": { + "quotes": [ + "Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.", + "The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability." + ] + }, + "Louise Hay": { + "quotes": [ + "I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life." + ] + }, + "Chet Atkins": { + "quotes": [ + "A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that." + ] + }, + "Neal Barnard": { + "quotes": [ + "We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change." + ] + }, + "Bill Gates": { + "quotes": [ + "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.", + "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.", + "It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.", + "In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.", + "Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.", + "If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.", + "It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." + ] + }, + "Will Rogers": { + "quotes": [ + "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.", + "Don’t Let Yesterday Take Up Too Much Of Today." + ] + }, + "Jack Canfield": { + "quotes": [ + "The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success." + ] + }, + "Erin Cummings": { + "quotes": [ + "At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure." + ] + }, + "Phillips Brooks": { + "quotes": [ + "The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.", + "Happiness is the natural flower of duty.", + "Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it." + ] + }, + "Guy Laliberte": { + "quotes": [ + "We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us." + ] + }, + "Don Everly": { + "quotes": [ + "I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home." + ] + }, + "Eric Ries": { + "quotes": [ + "Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success." + ] + }, + "Max Lucado": { + "quotes": [ + "You change your life by changing your heart." + ] + }, + "W. Somerset Maugham": { + "quotes": [ + "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind." + ] + }, + "Jason Calacanis": { + "quotes": [ + "Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not." + ] + }, + "Warren Buffett": { + "quotes": [ + "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.", + "Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.", + "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.", + "The most important investment you can make is in yourself." + ] + }, + "Dada Vaswani": { + "quotes": [ + "True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment." + ] + }, + "Jiddu Krishnamurti": { + "quotes": [ + "In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself." + ] + }, + "Kin Hubbard": { + "quotes": [ + "There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?" + ] + }, + "Woody Hayes": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.", + "Success - it's what you do with what you've got.", + "The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours." + ] + }, + "Maori Proverb": { + "quotes": [ + "Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you." + ] + }, + "Don Rickles": { + "quotes": [ + "Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive." + ] + }, + "Dwight D. Eisenhower": { + "quotes": [ + "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.", + "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office." + ] + }, + "Sophocles": { + "quotes": [ + "Who seeks shall find.", + "There is no success without hardship.", + "Success is dependent on effort.", + "Always desire to learn something useful." + ] + }, + "Montel Williams": { + "quotes": [ + "My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back at myself and looking back at things in my life, and juxtaposing them against things that are happening in other people's lives and trying to be motivational." + ] + }, + "Jack Ma": { + "quotes": [ + "Don't give up, Today is hard. Tomorrow will be worse. Day after tomorrow will be sunshine.", + "If you don't give up, you still have a chance." + ] + }, + "Michael Atshuler": { + "quotes": [ + "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot." + ] + }, + "Robert Frost ": { + "quotes": [ + "Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that made all the difference." + ] + }, + "Maria Bartiromo": { + "quotes": [ + "I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard." + ] + }, + "Brenda Song": { + "quotes": [ + "To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters." + ] + }, + "Monty Hall": { + "quotes": [ + "Actually, I'm an overnight success, but it took twenty years." + ] + }, + "APJ Abdul Kalam": { + "quotes": [ + "If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun." + ] + }, + "Lionel Messi": { + "quotes": [ + "You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.", + "I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground." + ] + }, + "Tennessee Williams": { + "quotes": [ + "Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.", + "I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.", + "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.", + "Success and failure are equally disastrous." + ] + }, + "Charles R. Swindoll": { + "quotes": [ + "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." + ] + }, + "Ted Turner": { + "quotes": [ + "You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win." + ] + }, + "Andre Benjamin": { + "quotes": [ + "It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you." + ] + }, + "John Maynard Keynes": { + "quotes": [ + "The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.", + "Ideas shape the course of history." + ] + }, + "R. Kelly": { + "quotes": [ + "I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person." + ] + }, + "Niccolo Machiavelli": { + "quotes": [ + "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.", + "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." + ] + }, + "Samuel Smiles": { + "quotes": [ + "The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.", + "It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.", + "Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles." + ] + }, + "Jim Rohn": { + "quotes": [ + "We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.", + "If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.", + "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.", + "Either you run the day, or the day runs you.", + "Either you run the day or the day runs you.", + " If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ", + "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.", + "Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.", + "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.", + "Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.", + "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.", + "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.", + "Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.", + "Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.", + "If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.", + "Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.", + "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. ", + "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." + ] + }, + "Alan Price": { + "quotes": [ + "The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan." + ] + }, + "Brittany Murphy": { + "quotes": [ + "I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for." + ] + }, + "Catherine Zeta-Jones": { + "quotes": [ + "For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end." + ] + }, + "William Eardley IV": { + "quotes": [ + "Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." + ] + }, + "Lyndon B. Johnson": { + "quotes": [ + "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.", + "Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam." + ] + }, + "Jack London": { + "quotes": [ + "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." + ] + }, + "Philip Guedalla": { + "quotes": [ + "Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.", + "Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment." + ] + }, + "Kevyn Aucoin": { + "quotes": [ + "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it." + ] + }, + "Antoine de Saint-Exupery": { + "quotes": [ + "What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." + ] + }, + "David McCullough": { + "quotes": [ + "Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love." + ] + }, + "Alfred Adler": { + "quotes": [ + "No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes." + ] + }, + "Mary Berry": { + "quotes": [ + "I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success." + ] + }, + "Robert Collier": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.", + "Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.", + "Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.", + "The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed." + ] + }, + "Lance Armstrong": { + "quotes": [ + "Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." + ] + }, + "Donald Rumsfeld": { + "quotes": [ + "Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to 'carry it off.'" + ] + }, + "Mark Zuckerberg": { + "quotes": [ + "The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.", + "Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough." + ] + }, + "Rosie O'Donnell": { + "quotes": [ + "I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me." + ] + }, + "Major Taylor": { + "quotes": [ + "To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world." + ] + }, + "Joan of Arc": { + "quotes": [ + "I am not afraid... I was born to do this." + ] + }, + "Cara Delevingne": { + "quotes": [ + "I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!" + ] + }, + "Farrah Gray": { + "quotes": [ + "Comfort is the enemy of achievement." + ] + }, + "Angie Stone": { + "quotes": [ + "'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else." + ] + }, + "Alfred North Whitehead": { + "quotes": [ + "No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude." + ] + }, + "Thomas Jefferson": { + "quotes": [ + "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.", + "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ", + "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.", + "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.", + "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.", + "I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." + ] + }, + "Booker T. Washington": { + "quotes": [ + "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.", + "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.", + "Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.", + "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.", + "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work." + ] + }, + "Gary Ryan Blair": { + "quotes": [ + "Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity." + ] + }, + "Lenny Kravitz": { + "quotes": [ + "People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music." + ] + }, + "Amy Sedaris": { + "quotes": [ + "Books are challenging and inspirational to me." + ] + }, + "Josh McDaniels": { + "quotes": [ + "Of all the things people have taught me regarding life lessons or anything that would benefit me, I don't think anything helped me learn more about life than football. You go through so many different things: adversity, how to handle adversity, how to handle success, how to lead, how to be a teammate, how to communicate." + ] + }, + "Soledad O'Brien": { + "quotes": [ + "There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives." + ] + }, + "Richard Rorty": { + "quotes": [ + "There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves." + ] + }, + "Andre Rieu": { + "quotes": [ + "I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success." + ] + }, + "Edmund Hillary": { + "quotes": [ + "Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension." + ] + }, + "Henry Samueli": { + "quotes": [ + "Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for." + ] + }, + "Martha Beck": { + "quotes": [ + "No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth." + ] + }, + "Donald Johanson": { + "quotes": [ + "Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology." + ] + }, + "Edgar Allan Poe": { + "quotes": [ + "All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire." + ] + }, + "Robert Baden-Powell": { + "quotes": [ + "Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example." + ] + }, + "Charlie White": { + "quotes": [ + "The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all. That is the key to success." + ] + }, + "Lauren Bacall": { + "quotes": [ + "I am not a has-been. I am a will be." + ] + }, + "Georgia O'Keeffe": { + "quotes": [ + "Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.", + "I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." + ] + }, + "Nicki Minaj": { + "quotes": [ + "You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition." + ] + }, + "Anna Deavere Smith": { + "quotes": [ + "President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today." + ] + }, + "Charles Atlas": { + "quotes": [ + "Step by step and the thing is done." + ] + }, + " Ernest Hemingway": { + "quotes": [ + "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." + ] + }, + "Prince Royce": { + "quotes": [ + "When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. 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If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction." + ] + }, + "Guru Nanak": { + "quotes": [ + "From its brilliancy everything is illuminated." + ] + }, + "Bob Feller": { + "quotes": [ + "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." + ] + }, + "Edward Whitacre, Jr.": { + "quotes": [ + "My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. 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It's what you do for others." + ] + }, + "Allan Houston": { + "quotes": [ + "Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life." + ] + }, + "Smokey Robinson": { + "quotes": [ + "So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.", + "In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.", + "Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God." + ] + }, + "A.P.J. Abdul Kalam": { + "quotes": [ + "Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.", + "Look at the sky. We are not alone. 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It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances." + ] + }, + "Rose Leslie": { + "quotes": [ + "It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they are a force to be reckoned with. 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I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well." + ] + }, + "Nolan Ryan": { + "quotes": [ + "Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent." + ] + }, + "Ella Fitzgerald": { + "quotes": [ + "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." + ] + }, + "Helen Keller": { + "quotes": [ + "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.", + "Security Is Mostly A Superstition. Life Is Either A Daring Adventure Or Nothing.", + "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.", + "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.", + "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.", + "Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.", + "Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.", + "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.", + "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 which has been opened for us." + ] + }, + "Anthony J. 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I wouldn't know how to get along without it.", + "Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.", + "Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.", + "When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.", + "Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy.", + "Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgment, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence." + ] + }, + "Zig Ziglar": { + "quotes": [ + "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily.", + "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.", + "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember--the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.", + "Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.", + "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.", + "You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.", + "Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.", + "Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.", + "You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.", + "Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.", + "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.", + "I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.", + "You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.", + "Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity." + ] + }, + "Michaelangelo": { + "quotes": [ + "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." + ] + }, + "C. S. Lewis": { + "quotes": [ + "Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.", + "Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success." + ] + }, + "Malik Bendjelloul": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes." + ] + }, + "Scott Adams": { + "quotes": [ + "Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.", + "Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. 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Go out and get busy." + ] + }, + "Peter Diamandis": { + "quotes": [ + "Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.", + "Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success." + ] + }, + "Arnold Palmer": { + "quotes": [ + "Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character." + ] + }, + "Alan Shepard": { + "quotes": [ + "I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds." + ] + }, + "Bruce Feirstein": { + "quotes": [ + "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.", + "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. 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When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character." + ] + }, + "Rodney Atkins": { + "quotes": [ + "Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from." + ] + }, + "Karim Seddiki": { + "quotes": [ + "Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." + ] + }, + "Bobby Keys": { + "quotes": [ + "I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing." + ] + }, + "Dr. Henry Link": { + "quotes": [ + "We Generate Fears While We Sit. We Overcome Them By Action." + ] + }, + "Donald Cargill": { + "quotes": [ + "And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see." + ] + }, + "Fetty Wap": { + "quotes": [ + "Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. 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Own it.", + "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.", + "What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.", + "Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.", + "Don’t complain about what you don’t have. Use what you’ve got. To be less than your best is a sin." + ] + }, + "Audre Lorde": { + "quotes": [ + "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.", + "I am deliberate and afraid of nothing." + ] + }, + "Ramana Maharshi": { + "quotes": [ + "No one succeeds without effort... 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You don't really notice the weight loss overall but if you compare photos from then and now there's a big difference." + ] + }, + "Vincent McNabb": { + "quotes": [ + "Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them." + ] + }, + "Randy Bachman": { + "quotes": [ + "You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success." + ] + }, + "Johnny Depp": { + "quotes": [ + "I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.", + "You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading." + ] + }, + "Richard Gere": { + "quotes": [ + "The secret of my success is my hairspray." + ] + }, + "Pele": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is no accident. 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You just have to be determined enough to see the game through." + ] + }, + "Luke Bryan": { + "quotes": [ + "A lot of people don't have near the amount of success as I've been blessed to have, and it's all about working hard and hoping that continues." + ] + }, + "Big K.R.I.T.": { + "quotes": [ + "Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers..." + ] + }, + "Rahul Dravid": { + "quotes": [ + "What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing." + ] + }, + "Treat Williams": { + "quotes": [ + "I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. 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Methods change and men must change with them.", + "The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success." + ] + }, + "Mahatma Gandhi": { + "quotes": [ + "You must be the change you wish to see in the world.", + "An ounce of practice is better than tons of teaching.", + "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." + ] + }, + "Bertrand Russell": { + "quotes": [ + "The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." + ] + }, + "Lao Tsu": { + "quotes": [ + "He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty." + ] + }, + "Tecumseh": { + "quotes": [ + "From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune." + ] + }, + "Walt Disney Company": { + "quotes": [ + "The way to get started is to quit talking ans begin doing." + ] + }, + "Erma Bombeck": { + "quotes": [ + "Don't confuse fame with success. 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It leads to sterility.", + "Action is the foundational key to all success.", + "Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." + ] + }, + "Ludwig Quidde": { + "quotes": [ + "Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order." + ] + }, + "William Morris": { + "quotes": [ + "Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung." + ] + }, + "John Lennon": { + "quotes": [ + "Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.", + "The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets." + ] + }, + "C.S. 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It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness." + ] + }, + "Ralph Waldo Emerson": { + "quotes": [ + "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.", + "Every artist was first an amateur.", + "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.", + "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.", + "Hitch your wagon to a star.", + "What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.", + "People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.", + "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." + ] + }, + "Arnold Schwarzenegger": { + "quotes": [ + "You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.", + "The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.", + "Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.", + "Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.", + "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.", + "The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you." + ] + }, + "Christopher Lasch": { + "quotes": [ + "Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." + ] + }, + "Kelli O'Hara": { + "quotes": [ + "It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction." + ] + }, + "Antony Gormley": { + "quotes": [ + "I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life." + ] + }, + "Julian Castro": { + "quotes": [ + "As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that." + ] + }, + "Norman Ralph Augustine": { + "quotes": [ + "Motivation will almost always beat mere talent." + ] + }, + "Johnathan Swift": { + "quotes": [ + "I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. " + ] + }, + "Ian Ziering": { + "quotes": [ + "Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. 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" + ] + }, + "Danny Glover": { + "quotes": [ + "Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point." + ] + }, + "Katherine Henson": { + "quotes": [ + "Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness." + ] + }, + "Boris Vallejo": { + "quotes": [ + "There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration." + ] + }, + "Sylvia Plath": { + "quotes": [ + "Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself." + ] + }, + "James Rollins": { + "quotes": [ + "The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book." + ] + }, + "Arthur Balfour": { + "quotes": [ + "Enthusiasm moves the world." + ] + }, + "Ambrose Bierce": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.", + "Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success." + ] + }, + "Thomas Merton": { + "quotes": [ + "Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul." + ] + }, + "Joe Nichols": { + "quotes": [ + "I want to see success right away. 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No one remembers anything else." + ] + }, + "Trevor Phillips": { + "quotes": [ + "I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society." + ] + }, + "Joseph Wood Krutch": { + "quotes": [ + "It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder." + ] + }, + "Carl Sandburg": { + "quotes": [ + "To be a good loser is to learn how to win." + ] + }, + " Robert Anthony": { + "quotes": [ + "You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it." + ] + }, + "Joseph Barber Lightfoot": { + "quotes": [ + "The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.", + "Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.", + "We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us." + ] + }, + "Michael Gove": { + "quotes": [ + "The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing." + ] + }, + "Jason Derulo": { + "quotes": [ + "I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had." + ] + }, + "George C. Marshall": { + "quotes": [ + "Don't fight the problem, decide it." + ] + }, + "George Soros": { + "quotes": [ + "When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task." + ] + }, + "Heather Bresch": { + "quotes": [ + "There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success." + ] + }, + "Andy Warhol": { + "quotes": [ + "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.", + "Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.", + "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." + ] + }, + "Imran Amed": { + "quotes": [ + "Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business." + ] + }, + "Steven Bauer": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he's a great role model." + ] + }, + "Andy Grove": { + "quotes": [ + "Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive." + ] + }, + "John P. 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And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband." + ] + }, + "Author Unknown": { + "quotes": [ + "Be stubborn about your goals, and flexible about your methods." + ] + }, + "William J. H. Boetcker": { + "quotes": [ + "Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.", + "Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself." + ] + }, + "Taylor Kinney": { + "quotes": [ + "I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic." + ] + }, + "Reggie Watts": { + "quotes": [ + "I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me." + ] + }, + "Jean Giraudoux": { + "quotes": [ + "The secret of success is sincerity." + ] + }, + "Arnold H. Glasow": { + "quotes": [ + "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.", + "Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." + ] + }, + "Sheryl Sandberg": { + "quotes": [ + "I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.", + "What would you do if you weren’t afraid?" + ] + }, + "Ken Hensley": { + "quotes": [ + "I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!" + ] + }, + "Don Zimmer": { + "quotes": [ + "What You Lack In Talent Can Be Made Up With Desire, Hustle And Giving 110% All The Time." + ] + }, + "Bob Proctor, You Were Born Rich": { + "quotes": [ + "Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand." + ] + }, + "Earl Nightingale": { + "quotes": [ + "Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.", + "We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.", + "We become what we think about.", + "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.", + "All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination." + ] + }, + "Oliver Goldsmith": { + "quotes": [ + "Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall." + ] + }, + "Walter Pater": { + "quotes": [ + "To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life." + ] + }, + "Rainer Maria Rilke": { + "quotes": [ + "The only journey is the one within." + ] + }, + "Dr. David Schwartz": { + "quotes": [ + "When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ways to do it." + ] + }, + "Sylvia Browne": { + "quotes": [ + "The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name." + ] + }, + "Ronald Reagan": { + "quotes": [ + "We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.", + "We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added." + ] + }, + "Margaret Thatcher": { + "quotes": [ + "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.", + "People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.", + "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.", + "I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it should get you pretty near." + ] + }, + "Jerry Jeff Walker": { + "quotes": [ + "I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success." + ] + }, + "Damien Rice": { + "quotes": [ + "Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world." + ] + }, + "Jim Evans": { + "quotes": [ + "I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning." + ] + }, + "Warren Bennis": { + "quotes": [ + "Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing." + ] + }, + "George Whitefield": { + "quotes": [ + "Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you." + ] + }, + "Michael Dell": { + "quotes": [ + "There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.", + "You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream." + ] + }, + "Daniel Webster": { + "quotes": [ + "There is always room at the top." + ] + }, + "Michael Jordan": { + "quotes": [ + "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.", + "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.", + "I’ve failed over and over and over again. And that is why I succeed.", + "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.", + "If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.", + "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.", + "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." + ] + }, + "David Harewood": { + "quotes": [ + "My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise." + ] + }, + "Azar Nafisi": { + "quotes": [ + "The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream." + ] + }, + "Donatella Versace": { + "quotes": [ + "Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring." + ] + }, + "Aldous Huxley": { + "quotes": [ + "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." + ] + }, + "Baltasar Gracian": { + "quotes": [ + "The wise does at once what the fool does at last.", + "Know or listen to those who know." + ] + }, + "Maya Angelou": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.", + "We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.", + "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.", + "It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.", + "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.", + "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.", + "Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.", + "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.", + "You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." + ] + }, + "Steve Jobs": { + "quotes": [ + "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works", + "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations", + "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower", + "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.", + "If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You.", + "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.", + "The only way to work is to love what you do.", + "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.", + "Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.", + "Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.", + "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.", + "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.", + "Stay hungry, stay foolish", + "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And 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. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.", + "Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.", + "You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.This approach has never let me down." + ] + }, + "Giorgio Moroder": { + "quotes": [ + "Even when disco went out, I could still make hits. Once I had so much success, every idea became concentrated. I had so much confidence. I knew how the bass should sound, what rhythms would work. The tempos I knew: 110 to 120 BPM. I knew they would dance in the clubs in New York or anywhere." + ] + }, + "Baruch Spinoza": { + "quotes": [ + "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." + ] + }, + "Lenoardo da Vinci": { + "quotes": [ + "One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." + ] + }, + "Chris Benz": { + "quotes": [ + "I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated." + ] + }, + "Evan Williams": { + "quotes": [ + "When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that's taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success." + ] + }, + "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe": { + "quotes": [ + "What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.", + "Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.", + "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.", + "I love those who yearn for the impossible.", + "Nothing is worth more than this day.", + "Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.", + "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." + ] + }, + "Arthur Helps": { + "quotes": [ + "In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.", + "Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment." + ] + }, + "Paula Cole": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success." + ] + }, + "Schumann": { + "quotes": [ + "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist." + ] + }, + "Barbara Bush": { + "quotes": [ + "Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way." + ] + }, + "Christine Teigen": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person." + ] + }, + "George Lorimer": { + "quotes": [ + "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.", + "You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. " + ] + }, + "Burl Ives": { + "quotes": [ + "To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name" + ] + }, + "Kathy Ireland": { + "quotes": [ + "I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.", + "If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow." + ] + }, + "Elisabeth Shue": { + "quotes": [ + "I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture." + ] + }, + "George S. 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Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort." + ] + }, + "Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha": { + "quotes": [ + "Wishes don't bring riches; work make things work." + ] + }, + "Kim Garst": { + "quotes": [ + "If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents--start charging for it." + ] + }, + "Wiz Khalifa": { + "quotes": [ + "Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.", + "I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.", + "I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success." + ] + }, + "Fred Hammond": { + "quotes": [ + "We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord." + ] + }, + "Joey Adams": { + "quotes": [ + "Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'" + ] + }, + "Kenny Marchant": { + "quotes": [ + "I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad." + ] + }, + "Rose George": { + "quotes": [ + "What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it." + ] + }, + "Celine Dion": { + "quotes": [ + "The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.", + "The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself." + ] + }, + "Nikki Sixx": { + "quotes": [ + "Traveling around the country, meeting fans and hearing their stories in person and on my radio show has reenergized my commitment to creating honest and inspirational content that not only serves my own creative purposes but can help and touch others as well." + ] + }, + "Ben Jonson": { + "quotes": [ + "Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised." + ] + }, + "Vivek Wadhwa": { + "quotes": [ + "A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.", + "Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game." + ] + }, + "Nicolaus Copernicus": { + "quotes": [ + "Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars." + ] + }, + "Penelope Douglas": { + "quotes": [ + "Acting like you don’t care is not letting it go" + ] + }, + "Wilbur Wright": { + "quotes": [ + "I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success." + ] + }, + "Mike Ditka": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.", + "Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.", + "Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. 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I say that to my kids every day.", + "We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.", + "Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.", + "Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own." + ] + }, + "Sigmund Freud": { + "quotes": [ + "America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.", + "If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it." + ] + }, + "Robert Quillen": { + "quotes": [ + "There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves." + ] + }, + "Ban Ki-moon": { + "quotes": [ + "Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. 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I think a lot of people think that they will, but they don't." + ] + }, + "Ben Shapiro": { + "quotes": [ + "Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects.", + "In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you're highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you." + ] + }, + "Charles de Montesquieu": { + "quotes": [ + "In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.", + "Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed." + ] + }, + "André Gide": { + "quotes": [ + "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." + ] + }, + "David Joseph Schwartz": { + "quotes": [ + "The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.", + "Think little goals and expect little achievements. 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And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.", + "With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in." + ] + }, + "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow": { + "quotes": [ + "The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.", + "However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.", + "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.", + "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." + ] + }, + "Natalie Gulbis": { + "quotes": [ + "When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder." + ] + }, + "Victor Hugo": { + "quotes": [ + "A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil." + ] + }, + "Fan Bingbing": { + "quotes": [ + "Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies." + ] + }, + "Derek Jeter": { + "quotes": [ + "We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. 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This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible." + ] + }, + "Douglas Adams": { + "quotes": [ + "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.", + "The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks." + ] + }, + "Muhammad Iqbal": { + "quotes": [ + "The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.", + "Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well." + ] + }, + "Jane D. Hull": { + "quotes": [ + "At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents." + ] + }, + "Edward Young": { + "quotes": [ + "Too low they build, who build beneath the stars." + ] + }, + "Johnny Weir": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. 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I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships." + ] + }, + "Confucius": { + "quotes": [ + "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.", + "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.", + "The way of a superior man is three-fold: virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.", + "The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.", + "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.", + "The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.", + "Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure." + ] + }, + "Nigel Lythgoe": { + "quotes": [ + "Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world." + ] + }, + "Roger Babson": { + "quotes": [ + "Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." + ] + }, + "Henry Drummond": { + "quotes": [ + "The people who influence you are the people who believe in you." + ] + }, + "Mattie Stepanek": { + "quotes": [ + "Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future." + ] + }, + "Michael D. 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But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur." + ] + }, + "Alexander the Great": { + "quotes": [ + "I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.", + "There is nothing impossible to him who will try." + ] + }, + "Ashley Olsen": { + "quotes": [ + "We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head." + ] + }, + "B. R. Ambedkar": { + "quotes": [ + "Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence." + ] + }, + "Thomas Edison": { + "quotes": [ + "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time", + "I have not failed. 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If you don't, life controls you.", + "The path to success is to take massive, determined action.", + "Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.", + "There's no abiding success without commitment.", + "Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?", + "We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.", + "My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.", + "Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment." + ] + }, + "Dr. Seuss": { + "quotes": [ + "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.", + "You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose." + ] + }, + "Emanuel Steward": { + "quotes": [ + "I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure." + ] + }, + "George Bernard Shaw": { + "quotes": [ + "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.", + "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. 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We have enough downers in the world." + ] + }, + "Anthony Hitt": { + "quotes": [ + "Our success as a global brand has been directly related to how we select locations where we are confident our particular clients desire to be. Los Cabos, Mexico is the ideal Engel & Volkers market, growing in popularity among world luxury travelers seeking exceptional properties for second home opportunities." + ] + }, + "Chris Brogan": { + "quotes": [ + "Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it." + ] + }, + " Paulo Coelho": { + "quotes": [ + "One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now " + ] + }, + "Phil Knight": { + "quotes": [ + "There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success." + ] + }, + "Paula Creamer": { + "quotes": [ + "Find a good teacher that will keep the game fun. Work hard and don't be afraid to have success or disappointment. That is what golf is all about." + ] + }, + "Angela Merkel": { + "quotes": [ + "A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution." + ] + }, + "W. C. Fields": { + "quotes": [ + "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." + ] + }, + "Ingrid Bergman": { + "quotes": [ + "I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside." + ] + }, + "Henry Ford": { + "quotes": [ + "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.", + "Whether You Think You Can Or Think You Can’t, You’re Right.", + "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.", + "You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.", + "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.", + "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.", + "If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.", + "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.", + "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." + ] + }, + "Joel Osteen": { + "quotes": [ + "You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.", + "Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.", + "God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family." + ] + }, + "Aristophanes": { + "quotes": [ + "Let each man exercise the art he knows." + ] + }, + "Joseph Murray": { + "quotes": [ + "Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving." + ] + }, + "Lemony Snicket": { + "quotes": [ + "Do the scary thing first, and get scared later." + ] + }, + "Daisaku Ikeda": { + "quotes": [ + "What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.", + "If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is the heart of a victor." + ] + }, + "John R. 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Both are not permanent.", + "Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard." + ] + }, + "Albert Einstein": { + "quotes": [ + "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.", + "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.", + "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.", + "Creativity Is Intelligence Having Fun.", + "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.", + "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.", + "Life is like riding a bicycle. 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But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.", + "What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today." + ] + }, + "Herodotus": { + "quotes": [ + "All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.", + "But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods." + ] + }, + "Ernest Barbaric": { + "quotes": [ + "Create. Not for the money. Not for the fame. Not for the recognition. 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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." + ] + }, + "Arthur C. Brooks": { + "quotes": [ + "The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.", + "The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives." + ] + }, + " Dwayne Johnson | The Rock": { + "quotes": [ + "Blood, Sweat and Respect. First Two You Give, Last One You Earn" + ] + }, + "Meister Eckhart": { + "quotes": [ + "A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there." + ] + }, + "Jimmy Carter": { + "quotes": [ + "We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy." + ] + }, + "Steve Harvey": { + "quotes": [ + "God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now, does he get disappointed often? All the time, because people get there and they forget how they got it." + ] + }, + "Dhirubhai Ambani": { + "quotes": [ + "The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium." + ] + }, + "Christina Grimmie": { + "quotes": [ + "My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist." + ] + }, + "Bruce Rauner": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term." + ] + }, + "Sharfaraz Ahmed": { + "quotes": [ + "If you want to be successful, put yourself in a discomfort zone." + ] + }, + "Gustave Flaubert": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.", + "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.", + "I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings." + ] + }, + "Meek Mill": { + "quotes": [ + "I think it's way harder when you have success, 'cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make." + ] + }, + "William C. 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Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed." + ] + }, + "Shawn Achor": { + "quotes": [ + "Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success." + ] + }, + "Bobby Knight": { + "quotes": [ + "The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare." + ] + }, + "Stephen Covey": { + "quotes": [ + "An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.", + "Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.", + "When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust." + ] + }, + "Marsha Sinetar": { + "quotes": [ + "Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you." + ] + }, + "Adriana Trigiani": { + "quotes": [ + "You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family." + ] + }, + "Garry Hynes": { + "quotes": [ + "My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker." + ] + }, + "Wayne Huizenga": { + "quotes": [ + "Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen." + ] + }, + "Donna Brazile": { + "quotes": [ + "I was motivated to be different in part because I was different." + ] + }, + "Philip Zimbardo": { + "quotes": [ + "Academic success depends on research and publications." + ] + }, + "Patrick Stump": { + "quotes": [ + "When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you." + ] + }, + "Bob Proctor": { + "quotes": [ + "Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there", + "Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time." + ] + }, + "Jean Cocteau": { + "quotes": [ + "I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?", + "The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up." + ] + }, + "Sylvester Stallone": { + "quotes": [ + "I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.", + "Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure." + ] + }, + "Maysoon Zayid": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that." + ] + }, + "William Feather": { + "quotes": [ + "Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.", + "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." + ] + }, + "Joseph Addison": { + "quotes": [ + "If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." + ] + }, + "Alexander McQueen": { + "quotes": [ + "Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't." + ] + }, + "Barbara Walters": { + "quotes": [ + "Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.", + "I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion." + ] + }, + "George Lucas": { + "quotes": [ + "'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.", + "You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead." + ] + }, + "Elon Musk": { + "quotes": [ + "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.", + "People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else." + ] + }, + "Henry Rollins": { + "quotes": [ + "I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.", + "We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success." + ] + }, + "Persius": { + "quotes": [ + "He conquers who endures." + ] + }, + "Paulo Coelho": { + "quotes": [ + "One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now", + "I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.", + "In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.", + "Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not.", + "You don’t have to explain your dreams, they belong to you." + ] + }, + "Mireille Guiliano": { + "quotes": [ + "Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present." + ] + }, + "Lee Ritenour": { + "quotes": [ + "I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album." + ] + }, + "Stephen Colbert": { + "quotes": [ + "I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?" + ] + }, + "Dr. Suess": { + "quotes": [ + "To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.", + "You have to be odd to be number one." + ] + }, + "Octavia E. Butler": { + "quotes": [ + "Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself." + ] + }, + "Henry Ward Beecher": { + "quotes": [ + "Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.", + "It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.", + "In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.", + "Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.", + "Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." + ] + }, + "John W. Gardner": { + "quotes": [ + "True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents." + ] + }, + "Katharine Hepburn": { + "quotes": [ + "We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change." + ] + }, + "J. Paul Getty": { + "quotes": [ + "I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.", + "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.", + "How does one measure the success of a museum?" + ] + }, + "Marva Collins.": { + "quotes": [ + "Success does not come to you, you go to it." + ] + }, + "Larry Page": { + "quotes": [ + "You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.", + "If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning." + ] + }, + "Edsger W. Dijkstra": { + "quotes": [ + "Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. 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And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational." + ] + }, + "Mikhail Bakunin": { + "quotes": [ + "Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others." + ] + }, + "Simone Weil": { + "quotes": [ + "I can, therefore I am." + ] + }, + "Sasha Cohen": { + "quotes": [ + "Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle." + ] + }, + "Michelangelo": { + "quotes": [ + "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." + ] + }, + "W. 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It is simply service that measures success." + ] + }, + "Cheryl James": { + "quotes": [ + "The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational." + ] + }, + "Candice Swanepoel": { + "quotes": [ + "I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa." + ] + }, + "Jimmy Buffett": { + "quotes": [ + "Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too." + ] + }, + "Conor McGregor": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.", + "My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief." + ] + }, + "Abraham Joshua Heschel": { + "quotes": [ + "Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge." + ] + }, + "Joyce Brothers": { + "quotes": [ + "A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.", + "Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.", + "The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top." + ] + }, + "Jimmy Dean": { + "quotes": [ + "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ", + "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.", + "Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life." + ] + }, + "Benjamin Franklin": { + "quotes": [ + "One today is worth two tomorrows.", + "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.", + "Well done is better than well said.", + "FEarly to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.", + "A place for everything, everything in its place.", + "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.", + "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.", + "Applause waits on success." + ] + }, + "Michael Jackson": { + "quotes": [ + "Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation." + ] + }, + "Mark Skousen": { + "quotes": [ + "Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success." + ] + }, + "Laila Ali": { + "quotes": [ + "'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.", + "Focus on being balanced - success is balance." + ] + }, + "Liz Smith": { + "quotes": [ + "Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." + ] + }, + "Junipero Serra": { + "quotes": [ + "I pray God may preserve your health and life many years." + ] + }, + "Chris Grosser": { + "quotes": [ + "Opportunities don't happen, you create them.", + "Opportunities don’t happen, you create them." + ] + }, + "Alberto Giacometti": { + "quotes": [ + "All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure." + ] + }, + "Jack Welch": { + "quotes": [ + "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.", + "You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.", + "I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success." + ] + }, + "Leo Durocher": { + "quotes": [ + "I come to win." + ] + }, + "Randy Forbes": { + "quotes": [ + "Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation." + ] + }, + "Dwayne Johnson": { + "quotes": [ + "Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.", + "I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' 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" + ] + }, + "Michael John Bobak": { + "quotes": [ + "All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." + ] + }, + "Ray Kroc": { + "quotes": [ + "While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.", + "The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.", + "If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours." + ] + }, + "Patrick Lencioni": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence." + ] + }, + "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.": { + "quotes": [ + "Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God." + ] + }, + "Bob Riley": { + "quotes": [ + "No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read." + ] + }, + "Larry Flynt": { + "quotes": [ + "The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?" + ] + }, + "A. 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Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?" + ] + }, + "Tony A. Gaskins Jr.": { + "quotes": [ + "If you don't build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs." + ] + }, + "Lord Byron": { + "quotes": [ + "'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't." + ] + }, + "Dee Hock": { + "quotes": [ + "Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future." + ] + }, + "Jonny Wilkinson": { + "quotes": [ + "I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that." + ] + }, + "Rupert Murdoch": { + "quotes": [ + "In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved." + ] + }, + "Euripides": { + "quotes": [ + "Much effort, much prosperity." + ] + }, + "Eleanor Roosevelt.": { + "quotes": [ + "Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway." + ] + }, + "Thomas A. Edison": { + "quotes": [ + "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.", + " I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.", + "There's a way to do it better - find it.", + "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.", + "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", + "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.", + "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.", + "I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.", + "One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.", + "The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work." + ] + }, + "Ursula Burns": { + "quotes": [ + "As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making." + ] + }, + "Edward Everett Hale": { + "quotes": [ + "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. 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We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage." + ] + }, + "Richard Wagner": { + "quotes": [ + "Imagination creates reality." + ] + }, + "Omar Epps": { + "quotes": [ + "I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?" + ] + }, + "Cyrus McCormick": { + "quotes": [ + "Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success." + ] + }, + "Guy Pearce": { + "quotes": [ + "Success comes in waves." + ] + }, + "Napoleon Bonaparte": { + "quotes": [ + "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.", + "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.", + "The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.", + "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." + ] + }, + "Friedrich Nietzsche": { + "quotes": [ + "Success has always been a great liar." + ] + }, + "Arthur Ashe": { + "quotes": [ + "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.", + "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.", + "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.", + "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life." + ] + }, + "Susana Martinez": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is the American Dream. And that success is not something to be ashamed of, or to demonize." + ] + }, + "Britney Spears": { + "quotes": [ + "For me, success is a state of mind. 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Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.", + "Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.", + "The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.", + "Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.", + "Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.", + "Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.", + "Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success." + ] + }, + "Lou Holtz": { + "quotes": [ + "Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period." + ] + }, + "Robert Green Ingersoll": { + "quotes": [ + "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." + ] + }, + "Edward Teller": { + "quotes": [ + "The science of today is the technology of tomorrow" + ] + }, + "Anonymous": { + "quotes": [ + "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.", + "No matter how you feel, Get up, dress up, show up and never give up.", + "It is good to dream big but your dreams will never see the light of day if you sleep big too. ", + "Do it now.Sometimes 'later' becomes 'never'. ", + "You can’t go back and make a brand new start. But, you can start now and make a brand new ending.", + "In 20 years, you probably won't even remember this.", + "This too, shall pass.", + "The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.", + "It's OK to not be OK, as long as you don't stay that way.", + "Go ahead. Look out the window. Isn't it a beautiful day?", + "It's a slow process, but quitting won't speed it up.", + "A river cuts through a rock not because of its power but its persistence.", + "I can and I will. Watch me.", + "The expert in anything was once a beginner.", + "Wake up. Kick ass. Repeat.", + "Go the extra mile -- it's never crowded.", + "Look in the mirror... That's your competition.", + "Life is tough but so are you.", + "Everyday may not be good but there is something good in everyday.", + "Be the reason someone smiles today." + ] + }, + "Johann Sebastian Bach": { + "quotes": [ + "I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well." + ] + }, + "Matthew Henry": { + "quotes": [ + "After a storm comes a calm." + ] + }, + "James Wolfe": { + "quotes": [ + "I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.", + "Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach." + ] + }, + "Pope John XXIII": { + "quotes": [ + "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.", + "I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart." + ] + }, + "Mia Hamm": { + "quotes": [ + "I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.", + "Success breeds success." + ] + }, + "Kevin Ngo": { + "quotes": [ + "Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t will be priceless." + ] + }, + "Franklin D. Roosevelt": { + "quotes": [ + "The Only Limit To Our Realization Of Tomorrow Will Be Our Doubts Of Today.", + "Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.", + "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.", + "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.", + "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." + ] + }, + "George Allen, Sr.": { + "quotes": [ + "People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.", + "Success is what you do with your ability. It's how you use your talent." + ] + }, + "Theodore Roethke": { + "quotes": [ + "What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible." + ] + }, + "Walter O'Brien": { + "quotes": [ + "I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth." + ] + }, + "Larry Ellison": { + "quotes": [ + "I have had all of the disadvantages required for success." + ] + }, + "Arthur Young": { + "quotes": [ + "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man." + ] + }, + "Marilyn vos Savant": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses." + ] + }, + "Peter Guber": { + "quotes": [ + "Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.", + "Well, the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and, if you're not willing to confront failure, you can never find out how good you are." + ] + }, + "Kate Middleton": { + "quotes": [ + "George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest." + ] + }, + "Martha Stewart": { + "quotes": [ + "I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.", + "Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success." + ] + }, + "Aristotle Onassis": { + "quotes": [ + "The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows." + ] + }, + "John Donne": { + "quotes": [ + "Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail." + ] + }, + "Robert Kiyosaki": { + "quotes": [ + "Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.", + "I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.", + "Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.", + "The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way." + ] + }, + "Russell Baker": { + "quotes": [ + "Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong." + ] + }, + "Zac Hanson": { + "quotes": [ + "It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?" + ] + }, + "Hakeem Olajuwon": { + "quotes": [ + "I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God." + ] + }, + "Taylor Dayne": { + "quotes": [ + "My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse." + ] + }, + "Conor Maynard": { + "quotes": [ + "I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!" + ] + }, + "Michael Phelps, swimmer and Olympic gold medalist": { + "quotes": [ + "You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits." + ] + }, + " Michael Jordan": { + "quotes": [ + "If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!!" + ] + }, + "George Reeves": { + "quotes": [ + "Knock the 't' off the 'can't'" + ] + }, + "Chris Hadfield": { + "quotes": [ + "Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine." + ] + }, + "Cecil B. 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He's not the dad who's going to take me to the beach and go swimming, but he's such a motivational person." + ] + }, + "Skylar Grey": { + "quotes": [ + "Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way." + ] + }, + "Gwen Stefani": { + "quotes": [ + "The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper." + ] + }, + "Lynda Barry": { + "quotes": [ + "I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk." + ] + }, + "Les Brown": { + "quotes": [ + "Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.", + "Dont let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.", + "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.", + "We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.", + "Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars." + ] + }, + "Philippos": { + "quotes": [ + "You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." + ] + }, + "Leonard Cohen": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is survival." + ] + }, + "Anupam Kher": { + "quotes": [ + "I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should." + ] + }, + "Philip Sidney": { + "quotes": [ + "Either I will find a way, or I will make one." + ] + }, + "Ed McMahon": { + "quotes": [ + "Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product." + ] + }, + "David Attenborough": { + "quotes": [ + "Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics." + ] + }, + "Carrie-Anne Moss": { + "quotes": [ + "People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life." + ] + }, + "Viet Thanh Nguyen": { + "quotes": [ + "This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before." + ] + }, + "Edward Norton": { + "quotes": [ + "I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it." + ] + }, + "Bruce Springsteen": { + "quotes": [ + "Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier." + ] + }, + "Keke Palmer": { + "quotes": [ + "Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are." + ] + }, + "Soichiro Honda": { + "quotes": [ + "Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.", + "Success is 99 percent failure." + ] + }, + "Ellen Ochoa": { + "quotes": [ + "We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success - many pathways to do that. We need to understand better what may be preventing people from using those pathways." + ] + }, + "Bruce Henderson": { + "quotes": [ + "The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior." + ] + }, + "H. G. Wells": { + "quotes": [ + "If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.", + "The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other." + ] + }, + "Todd Anderson": { + "quotes": [ + "Oh captain, my captain." + ] + }, + "Chuck Norris": { + "quotes": [ + "People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next." + ] + }, + "Steve Martin": { + "quotes": [ + "Be so good they can't ignore you.", + "I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic." + ] + }, + "Thomas Aquinas": { + "quotes": [ + "The things that we love tell us what we are." + ] + }, + "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi": { + "quotes": [ + "Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.", + "Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness." + ] + }, + "Helen Hayes": { + "quotes": [ + "We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too." + ] + }, + "John F. Kennedy": { + "quotes": [ + "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.", + "The best road to progress is freedom's road.", + "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.", + "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.", + "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.", + "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.", + "Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom." + ] + }, + "Buddha": { + "quotes": [ + "He is able who thinks he is able.", + "No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.", + "The mind is everything. What you think you become.", + "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.", + "The trouble is you think you have time.", + "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.", + "What we think, we become.", + "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." + ] + }, + "Stephen Curry": { + "quotes": [ + "I've always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it's also been about confidence and faith." + ] + }, + "Ron Jaworski": { + "quotes": [ + "Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass." + ] + }, + "Marissa Mayer": { + "quotes": [ + "I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of, ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough." + ] + }, + "Arlen Specter": { + "quotes": [ + "It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.", + "My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model." + ] + }, + "T.I.": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of." + ] + }, + "Horace": { + "quotes": [ + "Don't think, just do." + ] + }, + "Walt Whitman": { + "quotes": [ + "Nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.", + "I celebrate myself, and sing myself.", + "We convince by our presence.", + "Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." + ] + }, + "Robert Gottlieb": { + "quotes": [ + "Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational." + ] + }, + "Jim Carrey": { + "quotes": [ + "I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.", + "If you've got a talent, protect it.", + "What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started." + ] + }, + "Andrea Gibson": { + "quotes": [ + "You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy." + ] + }, + "Kevin Smith": { + "quotes": [ + "Please pay attention very carefully, because this is the truest thing a stranger will ever say to you: In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least TRYING to accomplish all your wildest dreams in life." + ] + }, + "Ella Wheeler Wilcox": { + "quotes": [ + "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.", + "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. ", + "Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it." + ] + }, + "Tina Brown": { + "quotes": [ + "It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.", + "Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe." + ] + }, + "Edgar Cayce": { + "quotes": [ + "There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!" + ] + }, + "Adam Grant": { + "quotes": [ + "The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success." + ] + }, + "Hassanal Bolkiah": { + "quotes": [ + "Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.", + "The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme." + ] + }, + "Pablo Neruda": { + "quotes": [ + "The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." + ] + }, + "Jacob Riis": { + "quotes": [ + "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." + ] + }, + "Nargis Fakhri": { + "quotes": [ + "Hard work and dedication is important to success, and I have those qualities.", + "At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.", + "I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is." + ] + }, + "Saul Bellow": { + "quotes": [ + "A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him." + ] + }, + "John Muir": { + "quotes": [ + "The power of imagination makes us infinite.", + "How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" + ] + }, + "Henri Nouwen": { + "quotes": [ + "The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection." + ] + }, + "Neal Boortz": { + "quotes": [ + "The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms." + ] + }, + "Henry C Link": { + "quotes": [ + "When one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior" + ] + }, + "Spencer Johnson": { + "quotes": [ + "What would you do if you weren't afraid." + ] + }, + "Kareena Kapoor Khan": { + "quotes": [ + "I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again." + ] + }, + "Billie Jean King": { + "quotes": [ + "A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning." + ] + }, + "Muhammad Ali": { + "quotes": [ + "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth", + "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'", + "I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.", + "I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count." + ] + }, + "B. C. 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Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.", + "We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.", + "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." + ] + }, + "Jean Luc Picard": { + "quotes": [ + "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life. " + ] + }, + "Ben Okri": { + "quotes": [ + "Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.", + "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." + ] + }, + "Desmond Tutu": { + "quotes": [ + "Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.", + "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." + ] + }, + "Michael Crawford": { + "quotes": [ + "Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success." + ] + }, + "William Wordsworth": { + "quotes": [ + "To begin, begin." + ] + }, + "Carlos Ghosn": { + "quotes": [ + "You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure." + ] + }, + "e. e. cummings": { + "quotes": [ + "Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.", + "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." + ] + }, + "Ellen Stofan": { + "quotes": [ + "You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy." + ] + }, + "Ellen Glasgow": { + "quotes": [ + "A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away." + ] + }, + "Bobby Unser": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." + ] + }, + "Nathaniel Hawthorne": { + "quotes": [ + "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.", + "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." + ] + }, + "Eleanor Roosevelt": { + "quotes": [ + "Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.", + "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.", + "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.", + "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.", + "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.", + "You must do the things you think you cannot do." + ] + }, + "Thucydides": { + "quotes": [ + "The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage. " + ] + }, + "Taylor Lautner": { + "quotes": [ + "Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success." + ] + }, + "Diane Sawyer": { + "quotes": [ + "Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it." + ] + }, + "Henri Frederic Amiel": { + "quotes": [ + "Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library." + ] + }, + "Madi Diaz": { + "quotes": [ + "Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. 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If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.", + "The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.", + "The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.", + "Success demands singleness of purpose.", + "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.", + "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.", + "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.", + "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.", + "Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.", + "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." + ] + }, + "Neill Blomkamp": { + "quotes": [ + "A lot of America is kind of done. People have been making films about it for 100 years. Everything to me feels used up. But Jo-Burg feels unbelievably inspirational to me." + ] + }, + "Anatole France": { + "quotes": [ + "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.", + "It is by acts and not by ideas that people live." + ] + }, + "Irving Berlin": { + "quotes": [ + "The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." + ] + }, + "Howard Schultz, CEO Starbucks": { + "quotes": [ + "Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you’ve done that, dream bigger." + ] + }, + "Nader al-Masri": { + "quotes": [ + "I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement." + ] + }, + "Dustin Clare": { + "quotes": [ + "You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me." + ] + }, + "Jules Renard": { + "quotes": [ + "Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.", + "Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others." + ] + }, + "Judy Collins": { + "quotes": [ + "I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world." + ] + }, + "John Dewey": { + "quotes": [ + "Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." + ] + }, + "William Allen White": { + "quotes": [ + "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!" + ] + }, + "Anthony Robbins": { + "quotes": [ + "The past does not equal the future." + ] + }, + "Daniel Patrick Moynihan": { + "quotes": [ + "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself." + ] + }, + "Alice Walker": { + "quotes": [ + "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." + ] + }, + "Virgil": { + "quotes": [ + "Fortune sides with him who dares.", + "They succeed, because they think they can.", + "They can conquer who believe they can." + ] + }, + "F. 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As long as you believe.", + "We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents." + ] + }, + "Gabby Douglas": { + "quotes": [ + "By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation." + ] + }, + "James Dyson": { + "quotes": [ + "Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success." + ] + }, + "Anna Pavlova": { + "quotes": [ + "When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.", + "To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.", + "Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work." + ] + }, + "Max Weinberg": { + "quotes": [ + "I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that." + ] + }, + "Navjot Singh Sidhu": { + "quotes": [ + "Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two." + ] + }, + "Marlee Matlin": { + "quotes": [ + "Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.", + "The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind." + ] + }, + "Chuck Palahniuk": { + "quotes": [ + "May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect." + ] + }, + "Charles Kendall Adams": { + "quotes": [ + "No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." + ] + }, + "Ashthon Jones": { + "quotes": [ + "I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you." + ] + }, + "Unknown": { + "quotes": [ + "It's okay to have a bad day", + "A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are for.", + "You have survived every single bad day so far", + "Look in the MIRROR...\nThat's your COMPETITION.", + "BE STRONG\nYou never know who you are inspiring", + "Fear stops people from accomplishing their goals.", + "There are three rules.\n1. If you do not go after what you want, you will never have it.\n2. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no.\n3. If you do not step forward, you will remain in the same place.", + "Just because you took longer than others, doesn’t mean you failed.", + "Don't worry if people don't like you. Most people are struggling to like themselves.", + "Always concentrate on how far you’ve come, rather than how far you have left to go.", + "A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.", + "Excellence can be obtained if you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible.", + "Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.", + "Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams.", + "More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.", + "Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.", + "Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.", + "Doing your best means never stop trying.", + "A hard fall means a high bounce…if you’re made of the right material.", + "People who urge you to be realistic generally want you to accept their version of reality.", + "We all have problems. The way we solve them is what makes us different.", + "A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.", + "Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.", + "You can do what’s reasonable or you can decide what’s possible.", + "If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.", + "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.", + "Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain.", + "Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.", + "If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.", + "Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.", + "You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.", + "The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.", + "Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.", + "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.", + "No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.", + "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.", + "Do one thing every day that scares you.", + "What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable.", + "Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.", + "Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.", + "Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem.", + "You can do anything, but not everything.", + "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.", + "The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.", + "Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated. ", + "A winner makes commitments. A loser makes promises.", + "A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.", + "No one should have the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.", + "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.", + "Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.", + "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.", + "The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.", + "Fear is not evil. It tells you what weakness is. And once you know your weakness, you can become stronger as well as kinder.", + "Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.", + "Your goals don't care how you feel.", + "Sweat is fat crying.", + "Be better than you were yesterday.", + "Rome wasn't built in a day." + ] + }, + "Wallis Simpson": { + "quotes": [ + "For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat." + ] + }, + "Andrew Wyeth": { + "quotes": [ + "It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment." + ] + }, + "Jerry West": { + "quotes": [ + "Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me." + ] + }, + "Bill Frist": { + "quotes": [ + "The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world." + ] + }, + "Charlie Sheen": { + "quotes": [ + "As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?", + "The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent." + ] + }, + "Kendrick Lamar": { + "quotes": [ + "I look at where I'm at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life." + ] + }, + "Tom Shadyac": { + "quotes": [ + "I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community." + ] + }, + "Leonard Mlodinow": { + "quotes": [ + "Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression." + ] + }, + "Charlotte Bronte": { + "quotes": [ + "Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves." + ] + }, + "John McDonald": { + "quotes": [ + "To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world." + ] + }, + "Anais Nin": { + "quotes": [ + "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.", + "Good things happen to those who hustle.", + "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." + ] + }, + "David Brinkley": { + "quotes": [ + "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." + ] + }, + "Felicity Kendal": { + "quotes": [ + "Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period." + ] + }, + "Robin S. 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Clarke": { + "quotes": [ + "The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.", + "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.", + "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." + ] + }, + "Al Yankovic": { + "quotes": [ + "As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy." + ] + }, + "Winston Churchill.": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." + ] + }, + "Babe Ruth": { + "quotes": [ + "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.", + "You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.", + "You just can't beat the person who never gives up.", + "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.", + "It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." + ] + }, + "Mary Engelbreit": { + "quotes": [ + "Life's too mysterious to take too serious." + ] + }, + "Alexandre Dumas": { + "quotes": [ + "Nothing succeeds like success." + ] + }, + "Leslie Moonves": { + "quotes": [ + "I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward." + ] + }, + "Jack Nicklaus": { + "quotes": [ + "Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself." + ] + }, + "Bruce Dickinson": { + "quotes": [ + "Teachers need to be more inspirational. 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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples." + ] + }, + "Stephen King": { + "quotes": [ + "He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride—if responsibility robs him of his manhood.", + "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." + ] + }, + "Bill Kurtis": { + "quotes": [ + "Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible." + ] + }, + "Marcus Aurelius": { + "quotes": [ + "If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don't imagine it impossible-for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.", + "To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.", + "If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.", + "...but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.", + "True good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, good actions.", + "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.", + "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.", + "Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.", + "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.", + "Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.", + "Each day provides its own gifts.", + "Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle." + ] + }, + "Mike Gafka": { + "quotes": [ + "To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like." + ] + }, + "Edith Wharton": { + "quotes": [ + "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." + ] + }, + "Jim Lovell": { + "quotes": [ + "There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen." + ] + }, + "Bill Bradley": { + "quotes": [ + "Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." + ] + }, + "H. Jackson Browne": { + "quotes": [ + "Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is." + ] + }, + "Amy Tan": { + "quotes": [ + "It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success." + ] + }, + "William Lloyd Garrison": { + "quotes": [ + "The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers." + ] + }, + "Patch Adams": { + "quotes": [ + "At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged." + ] + }, + "Albert Camus": { + "quotes": [ + "To know oneself, one should assert oneself.", + "Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears." + ] + }, + "Thomas Paine": { + "quotes": [ + "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.", + "We have it in our power to begin the world over again." + ] + }, + "Rosa Parks": { + "quotes": [ + "Knowing what must be done does away with fear.", + "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." + ] + }, + "Patrick Henry": { + "quotes": [ + "Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform." + ] + }, + "Khloe Kardashian": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too." + ] + }, + "Carly Schroeder": { + "quotes": [ + "I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing." + ] + }, + "Bruce Lee": { + "quotes": [ + "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them", + "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done", + "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer", + "The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.", + "A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.", + "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.", + "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.", + "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." + ] + }, + "John Locke": { + "quotes": [ + "As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears." + ] + }, + "Helen Gurley Brown": { + "quotes": [ + "My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense." + ] + }, + "Jennifer Lopez": { + "quotes": [ + "Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways." + ] + }, + "Juan Gabriel Vásquez": { + "quotes": [ + "The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies." + ] + }, + "Simon Cowell": { + "quotes": [ + "My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain." + ] + }, + "Ayn Rand": { + "quotes": [ + "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.", + "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." + ] + }, + "Anna Neagle": { + "quotes": [ + "The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure." + ] + }, + "Simone de Beauvoir": { + "quotes": [ + "Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.", + "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay." + ] + }, + "Alfred A. Montapert": { + "quotes": [ + "Expect problems and eat them for breakfast." + ] + }, + "Pope Paul VI": { + "quotes": [ + "Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.", + "Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will." + ] + }, + "Satya Nadella": { + "quotes": [ + "We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.", + "Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.", + "When I grew up here, there was no T-Hub. Probably, the closest to T was the Tank bund." + ] + }, + "Anne Frank": { + "quotes": [ + "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!", + "Whoever is happy will make others happy too.", + "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." + ] + }, + "Angelina Jolie": { + "quotes": [ + "It’s better to have nobody than someone who is half there, or who doesn’t want to be there." + ] + }, + "Doctor Who": { + "quotes": [ + "Never cowardly or cruel. 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You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up." + ] + }, + "Suzy Kassem": { + "quotes": [ + "You cannot move things by not moving." + ] + }, + "Rudyard Kipling": { + "quotes": [ + "Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade." + ] + }, + "Barbara Baron": { + "quotes": [ + "Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change." + ] + }, + "Auguste Rodin": { + "quotes": [ + "The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live." + ] + }, + "Josh Turner": { + "quotes": [ + "Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too." + ] + }, + "Earl Wilson": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is simply a matter of luck. 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You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.", + "Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.", + "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." + ] + }, + "Frank Sinatra": { + "quotes": [ + "The best revenge is massive success." + ] + }, + "Umberto Eco": { + "quotes": [ + "In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner." + ] + }, + "Snoop Dogg": { + "quotes": [ + "To me, the Seventies were very inspirational and very influential... With my whole persona as Snoop Dogg, as a person, as a rapper. I just love the Seventies style, the way all the players dressed nice, you know, kept their hair looking good, drove sharp cars and they talked real slick." + ] + }, + "Malcolm Forbes": { + "quotes": [ + "Failure is success if we learn from it." + ] + }, + "Eliza Dushku": { + "quotes": [ + "Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?" + ] + }, + "Mikhail Lermontov": { + "quotes": [ + "Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning." + ] + }, + "Corita Kent": { + "quotes": [ + "Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries." + ] + }, + "Gordon Bethune": { + "quotes": [ + "Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T." + ] + }, + "Gabriel Heatter": { + "quotes": [ + "More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself." + ] + }, + "Albert Schweitzer": { + "quotes": [ + "Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.", + "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.", + "A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up." + ] + }, + "Christine Mason Miller": { + "quotes": [ + "At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end." + ] + }, + "Jesse James Garrett": { + "quotes": [ + "But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success." + ] + }, + "Henry Hazlitt": { + "quotes": [ + "A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means." + ] + }, + "Kevin Krus": { + "quotes": [ + "We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism." + ] + }, + "Elbert Hubbard": { + "quotes": [ + "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.", + "A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.", + "Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.", + "He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.", + "The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.", + "Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition." + ] + }, + "Marilyn Monroe": { + "quotes": [ + "Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you." + ] + }, + "Ben Stein": { + "quotes": [ + "Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows." + ] + }, + "Nikola Tesla": { + "quotes": [ + "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." + ] + }, + "Tanya Tucker": { + "quotes": [ + "I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success." + ] + }, + "Selena Gomez": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely." + ] + }, + "Kevin Spacey": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get." + ] + }, + "Asif Kapadia": { + "quotes": [ + "Hopefully, when people see 'Senna', they will understand why this inspirational story needed to be told, why it had to be made as a movie for the big screen, and why it is a film for everyone." + ] + }, + "J. R. Martinez": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life." + ] + }, + "Khalil Gibran": { + "quotes": [ + "Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility.", + "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.", + "March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path." + ] + }, + "Kevin Plank": { + "quotes": [ + "Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational." + ] + }, + "Jim Hightower": { + "quotes": [ + "There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success." + ] + }, + "Johnny Carson": { + "quotes": [ + "Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'", + "Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.", + "My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day." + ] + }, + "Marc Benioff": { + "quotes": [ + "The only constant in the technology industry is change" + ] + }, + "Kevin Bacon": { + "quotes": [ + "Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live." + ] + }, + "Amy Waldman": { + "quotes": [ + "Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers." + ] + }, + "Isaac Newton": { + "quotes": [ + "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.", + "My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success." + ] + }, + "Mike Pence": { + "quotes": [ + "The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home." + ] + }, + "George Sand": { + "quotes": [ + "There is only one happiness in life – to love and to be loved." + ] + }, + "Jessica Savitch": { + "quotes": [ + "I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.", + "No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.", + "For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work." + ] + }, + "Daniel Boulud": { + "quotes": [ + "I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history." + ] + }, + "Phil Crosby": { + "quotes": [ + "Successful people breed success." + ] + }, + "Marlon Wayans": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream." + ] + }, + " Jimi Hendrix": { + "quotes": [ + "Music is my religion." + ] + }, + "Samuel Goldwyn": { + "quotes": [ + "From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.", + "Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success." + ] + }, + "Catherine Ryan Hyde": { + "quotes": [ + "I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process." + ] + }, + "Florence Nightingale": { + "quotes": [ + "I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.", + "I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse." + ] + }, + "Abraham Lincoln": { + "quotes": [ + "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.", + "Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.", + "That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well." + ] + }, + "Carmel McConnell": { + "quotes": [ + "Do more of what makes you happy. " + ] + }, + "Alfred Sheinwold": { + "quotes": [ + "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself." + ] + }, + "Helen Sharman": { + "quotes": [ + "The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational." + ] + }, + "Emmet Fox": { + "quotes": [ + "If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world." + ] + }, + "Lily Tomlin": { + "quotes": [ + "The road to success is always under construction.", + "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world." + ] + }, + "Andrew J. Bernstein": { + "quotes": [ + "The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up." + ] + }, + "Carter Burwell": { + "quotes": [ + "The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive." + ] + }, + "Alessia Cara": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that,' and then you do it. It's being happy with what you do and doing what you love every day." + ] + }, + "Rabindranath Tagore": { + "quotes": [ + "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.", + "Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.", + "Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." + ] + }, + "Jonathan Taylor Thomas": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!" + ] + }, + "Dean Acheson": { + "quotes": [ + "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time." + ] + }, + "Jack Youngblood": { + "quotes": [ + "Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career." + ] + }, + "Thomas J. Watson": { + "quotes": [ + "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.", + "You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.", + "To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.", + "If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.", + "Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops." + ] + }, + "Milton Berle": { + "quotes": [ + "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." + ] + }, + "Sam Ewing": { + "quotes": [ + "Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.", + "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." + ] + }, + "Honor Harger": { + "quotes": [ + "We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like." + ] + }, + "Hilda Solis": { + "quotes": [ + "Young people need the hands-on training that comes with a summer job. They need to know how to dress for success and nail job interviews. But most of all, they need mentorship, guidance, and inspiration." + ] + }, + "Mario Andretti": { + "quotes": [ + "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.", + "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." + ] + }, + "Tommy Lasorda": { + "quotes": [ + "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.", + "About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure." + ] + }, + "Dennis C. Blair": { + "quotes": [ + "The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?" + ] + }, + "Kevin Rollins": { + "quotes": [ + "Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance." + ] + }, + "Betsey Johnson": { + "quotes": [ + "Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead." + ] + }, + "Tom Petty": { + "quotes": [ + "Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success." + ] + }, + "Virat Kohli": { + "quotes": [ + "Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success." + ] + }, + "William James": { + "quotes": [ + "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.", + "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.", + "Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.", + "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.", + "Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.", + "Belief creates the actual fact." + ] + }, + "Patience Johnson": { + "quotes": [ + "There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle." + ] + }, + "Alice Foote MacDougall": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim." + ] + }, + "Ziad K. Abdelnour": { + "quotes": [ + "One of the hardest decision you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder." + ] + }, + "Michael Bergdahl": { + "quotes": [ + "Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate." + ] + }, + "Alexander Graham Bell": { + "quotes": [ + "The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.", + "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." + ] + }, + "Sydney Madwed": { + "quotes": [ + "If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom." + ] + }, + "Morgan Freeman": { + "quotes": [ + "Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance." + ] + }, + "Reggie Leach": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." + ] + }, + "Hugh Jackman": { + "quotes": [ + "To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success." + ] + }, + "Maxwell Maltz": { + "quotes": [ + "Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today." + ] + }, + "Sun Yat-sen": { + "quotes": [ + "The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance." + ] + }, + "Ethel Barrymore": { + "quotes": [ + "For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros." + ] + }, + "Lori Deschene": { + "quotes": [ + "Note to self: Keep going. You’re doing great. You might not be where you want to be yet, but that’s okay. Just take it one step at a time and keep believing in yourself. And remember: No matter what happens, you can still enjoy your life and be happy.", + "Don’t give up just because things get hard. Give up if you feel in your gut that moving on is the right choice for you.", + "Life isn’t always fair. Some people are born into better environments. Some people have better genetics. Some are in the right place at the right time. If you’re trying to change your life, all of this is irrelevant. All that matters is that you accept where you are, figure out where you want to be, and then do what you can, today and every day, to hold your head high and keep moving forward." + ] + }, + "Malala Yousafzai": { + "quotes": [ + "When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.", + "Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.", + "It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.", + "I want to make this world perfect.", + "Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.", + "Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman." + ] + }, + "Anne Lamott": { + "quotes": [ + "It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life." + ] + }, + "Benjamin Disraeli": { + "quotes": [ + "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.", + "Success is the child of audacity.", + "One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.", + "Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.", + "Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.", + "The secret of success is constancy to purpose.", + "Never complain and never explain.", + "Diligence is the mother of good fortune.", + "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." + ] + }, + "Mark Twain": { + "quotes": [ + "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first", + "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.", + "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.", + "The secret of getting ahead is getting started.", + "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything", + "The secret of getting ahead is getting started", + "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog", + "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why", + "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uniformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed", + "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see", + "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus", + "Courage is resistance to fear, master of fear, not absence of fear", + "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt", + "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter", + "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure", + "Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest", + "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read", + "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up", + "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not", + "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing", + "When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain", + "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been", + "When in doubt, tell the truth", + "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.", + "A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.", + "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.", + "Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." + ] + }, + "Keith Henson": { + "quotes": [ + "Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environment.", + "Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.", + "People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations." + ] + }, + "Han Suyin": { + "quotes": [ + "There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness." + ] + }, + "Shiv Khera": { + "quotes": [ + "Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success." + ] + }, + "Henry Kissinger": { + "quotes": [ + "No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.", + "Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem." + ] + }, + "Herman Cain": { + "quotes": [ + "One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed." + ] + }, + "RMV": { + "quotes": [ + "Anyone can exist. Most fools do. It takes guts to truly Live." + ] + }, + "James Rouse": { + "quotes": [ + "Whatever ought to be, can be." + ] + }, + "Manny Pacquiao": { + "quotes": [ + "All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important." + ] + }, + "Bonnie Blair": { + "quotes": [ + "I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals." + ] + }, + "Rafe Spall": { + "quotes": [ + "Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind." + ] + }, + "Joyce Meyer": { + "quotes": [ + "I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.", + "A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.", + "You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody." + ] + }, + "Jose Mourinho": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.", + "Money does not guarantee success." + ] + }, + "Julie Andrews": { + "quotes": [ + "Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th." + ] + }, + "Robert W. Service": { + "quotes": [ + "It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race." + ] + }, + "Condoleezza Rice": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance." + ] + }, + "Howard Nemerov": { + "quotes": [ + "The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me." + ] + }, + "Howie Mandel": { + "quotes": [ + "The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience." + ] + }, + "NeNe Leakes": { + "quotes": [ + "I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful." + ] + }, + "Lucius Annaeus Seneca": { + "quotes": [ + "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.", + "Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.", + "Success consecrates the most offensive crimes." + ] + }, + "Anne Sullivan": { + "quotes": [ + "People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved." + ] + }, + "Louise Mensch": { + "quotes": [ + "I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look." + ] + }, + "Sloan Wilson": { + "quotes": [ + "Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders." + ] + }, + "Akon": { + "quotes": [ + "Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes." + ] + }, + "Anne Rice": { + "quotes": [ + "Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.", + "First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success." + ] + }, + "Robert Foster Bennett": { + "quotes": [ + "A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control." + ] + }, + "Juliana Hatfield": { + "quotes": [ + "If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed." + ] + }, + "Gordon B. Hinckley": { + "quotes": [ + "Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." + ] + }, + "James E. Faust": { + "quotes": [ + "If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless." + ] + }, + "Alan Watts": { + "quotes": [ + "You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you." + ] + }, + "William Arthur Ward": { + "quotes": [ + "When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves." + ] + }, + "Ralph Nader": { + "quotes": [ + "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." + ] + }, + "Laurence D. Fink": { + "quotes": [ + "One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains." + ] + }, + "Kate Moss": { + "quotes": [ + "People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it." + ] + }, + "Bernard Williams": { + "quotes": [ + "Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." + ] + }, + "Usher": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end." + ] + }, + "Carrot Top": { + "quotes": [ + "It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people." + ] + }, + "Theodore N. Vail": { + "quotes": [ + "Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." + ] + }, + "Plutarch": { + "quotes": [ + "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." + ] + }, + "Glenn Beck": { + "quotes": [ + "Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it." + ] + }, + "Jeff Rich": { + "quotes": [ + "Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?" + ] + }, + "Lydia M. Child": { + "quotes": [ + "Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture." + ] + }, + "Vaclav Havel": { + "quotes": [ + "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." + ] + }, + "Adam Beach": { + "quotes": [ + "I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope." + ] + }, + "Monica Seles": { + "quotes": [ + "That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun." + ] + }, + "Julie Benz": { + "quotes": [ + "You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you can achieve success." + ] + }, + "Ireland Baldwin": { + "quotes": [ + "I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'" + ] + }, + "Jerry Lewis": { + "quotes": [ + "I've had great success being a total idiot." + ] + }, + "Joshua Waitzkin": { + "quotes": [ + "The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity." + ] + }, + "Oliver James": { + "quotes": [ + "Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for." + ] + }, + "Bobby Locke": { + "quotes": [ + "The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two." + ] + }, + "Lucy Larcom": { + "quotes": [ + "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." + ] + }, + "Nikos Kazantzakis": { + "quotes": [ + "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.", + "I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed." + ] + }, + "Tyron Woodley": { + "quotes": [ + "What's on my playlist when I'm fighting is not so much hip-hop. Sometimes, it's something more inspirational. I get a chance to think about what I'm fighting for, like, my family. It takes me to that state because a lot of times, it's a spiritual warfare for me." + ] + }, + "Vincent Van Gogh": { + "quotes": [ + "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.", + "I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart." + ] + }, + "Fabrizio Moreira": { + "quotes": [ + "'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure." + ] + }, + "Bryant H. 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In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.", + "Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business." + ] + }, + "Walter Chrysler": { + "quotes": [ + "The real secret of success is enthusiasm." + ] + }, + "Leonardo DiCaprio": { + "quotes": [ + "I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.", + "I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately." + ] + }, + "Calvin Coolidge": { + "quotes": [ + "If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress." + ] + }, + "Anna Held": { + "quotes": [ + "Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me." + ] + }, + "Tommy Douglas": { + "quotes": [ + "Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world." + ] + }, + "Saint Augustine": { + "quotes": [ + "Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." + ] + }, + "William Bartram": { + "quotes": [ + "On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver." + ] + }, + "Vikas Swarup": { + "quotes": [ + "I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it." + ] + }, + "Mandy Hale": { + "quotes": [ + "Today, figure out what makes you happy and do more of it. Figure out what doesn't and do less of it.", + "Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it." + ] + }, + "Bob McDonnell": { + "quotes": [ + "Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities." + ] + }, + "Mindy Kaling": { + "quotes": [ + "I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.", + "Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.", + "I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school." + ] + }, + "Robin Gibb": { + "quotes": [ + "When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss." + ] + }, + "Lolly Daskal": { + "quotes": [ + "When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.", + "Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.", + "When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.", + "When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you. " + ] + }, + "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar": { + "quotes": [ + "I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success." + ] + }, + "Seneca": { + "quotes": [ + "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.", + "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars", + "It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.", + "Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate", + "To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.", + "Fire tries gold, misfortune tries brave men.", + "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.", + "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.", + "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself", + "Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.", + "Luck is where opportunity meets preparation." + ] + }, + "Marcus Garvey": { + "quotes": [ + "There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.", + "Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa." + ] + }, + "Iroh": { + "quotes": [ + "Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not.", + "It is usually best to admit mistakes when they occur, and to seek to restore honor..", + "Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else." + ] + }, + "Aeschylus": { + "quotes": [ + "God always strives together with those who strive.", + "God loves to help him who strives to help himself.", + "Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.", + "From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow." + ] + }, + "Tom Stoppard": { + "quotes": [ + "Every exit is an entry somewhere else." + ] + }, + "Pat Waldron": { + "quotes": [ + "The boundary between what can be and your life, is your ideas" + ] + }, + "Ruben Hinojosa": { + "quotes": [ + "Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college." + ] + }, + "Ricky Williams": { + "quotes": [ + "There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you." + ] + }, + "George Orwell": { + "quotes": [ + "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.", + "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." + ] + }, + "Mae West": { + "quotes": [ + "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." + ] + }, + "Nelson Boswell": { + "quotes": [ + "The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed." + ] + }, + "Stephen Mangan": { + "quotes": [ + "I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher." + ] + }, + "Will Smith": { + "quotes": [ + "Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.", + "Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.", + "Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind and emotions." + ] + }, + "Patricia Cornwell": { + "quotes": [ + "In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.", + "Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge." + ] + }, + "Bill Cosby": { + "quotes": [ + "Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.", + "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.", + "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.", + "Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'" + ] + }, + "Lil Wayne": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success." + ] + }, + "John Wooden": { + "quotes": [ + "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.", + "Today is the only day. Yesterday is gone.", + "Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.", + "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.", + "Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.", + "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable." + ] + }, + "Louis Pasteur": { + "quotes": [ + "Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." + ] + }, + "Jameela Jamil": { + "quotes": [ + "We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong." + ] + }, + "Nikolai Gogol": { + "quotes": [ + "Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions." + ] + }, + "Adrien Brody": { + "quotes": [ + "My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years." + ] + }, + "Miguel de Cervantes": { + "quotes": [ + "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.", + "To be prepared is half the victory." + ] + }, + "Mary Kay Ash": { + "quotes": [ + "People fall forward to success.", + "Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.", + "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.", + "We fall forward to succeed.", + "Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless." + ] + }, + "St. Jerome": { + "quotes": [ + "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best." + ] + }, + "Swami Vivekananda": { + "quotes": [ + "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.", + "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." + ] + }, + "Fran Lebowitz": { + "quotes": [ + "Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable." + ] + }, + "Alfred Russel Wallace": { + "quotes": [ + "I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain." + ] + }, + "Jean-Jacques Rousseau": { + "quotes": [ + "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." + ] + }, + "Douglas Conant": { + "quotes": [ + "Learning to celebrate success is a key component of learning how to win in the market." + ] + }, + "Emily Dickinson": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.", + "Fortune befriends the bold.", + "I dwell in possibility." + ] + }, + "Ralph Marston": { + "quotes": [ + "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.", + "Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self." + ] + }, + "Bill Clinton": { + "quotes": [ + "If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit." + ] + }, + "Colin Kaepernick": { + "quotes": [ + "The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there." + ] + }, + "Marvin Sapp": { + "quotes": [ + "Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.", + "A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success." + ] + }, + "Michael Buble": { + "quotes": [ + "I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts." + ] + }, + "Bobby Davro": { + "quotes": [ + "The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind." + ] + }, + "P. T. Barnum": { + "quotes": [ + "The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick." + ] + }, + "Douglas MacArthur": { + "quotes": [ + "There is no substitute for victory." + ] + }, + "Confucious": { + "quotes": [ + "To See What Is Right And Not Do It Is A Lack Of Courage." + ] + }, + "Fernando Pessoa": { + "quotes": [ + "Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built." + ] + }, + "Vera Wang": { + "quotes": [ + "Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way." + ] + }, + "Christopher Reeve": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.", + "Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out." + ] + }, + "Cyril Connolly": { + "quotes": [ + "The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore." + ] + }, + "Jack Nicholson": { + "quotes": [ + "I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped." + ] + }, + "Aaron Paul": { + "quotes": [ + "I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it." + ] + }, + "Maria Montessori": { + "quotes": [ + "The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'" + ] + }, + "Thomas Wolfe": { + "quotes": [ + "You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity." + ] + }, + "Dominique Dawes": { + "quotes": [ + "I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television." + ] + }, + "Peter Thiel": { + "quotes": [ + "It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work." + ] + }, + "Christian Lous Lange": { + "quotes": [ + "Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master." + ] + }, + "Black Elk": { + "quotes": [ + "And when I breathed, my breath was lightning." + ] + }, + "Walter Bagehot": { + "quotes": [ + "Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success." + ] + }, + "Audrey Hepburn": { + "quotes": [ + "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”", + "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.", + "Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!", + "Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same." + ] + }, + "Drew Barrymore": { + "quotes": [ + "Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes." + ] + }, + "Young Jeezy": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm a motivational speaker.", + "As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.", + "All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it." + ] + }, + "Herbert Spencer": { + "quotes": [ + "People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal." + ] + }, + "Carl von Clausewitz": { + "quotes": [ + "Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination." + ] + }, + "Bertolt Brecht": { + "quotes": [ + "Why be a man when you can be a success?" + ] + }, + "Norman Cousins": { + "quotes": [ + "Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going." + ] + }, + "Gertrude Himmelfarb": { + "quotes": [ + "Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success." + ] + }, + "Tim Connor": { + "quotes": [ + "Life offers no guarantees... just choices; no certainty... but consequences; no predictable outcomes... just the privilege of pursuit." + ] + }, + "Alanis Morissette": { + "quotes": [ + "It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success." + ] + }, + "Robert Frost": { + "quotes": [ + "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.", + "The best way out is always through.", + "Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." + ] + }, + "Gary Cherone": { + "quotes": [ + "I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have." + ] + }, + "Mark Kennedy": { + "quotes": [ + "Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education." + ] + }, + "Colin R. 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A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.", + "You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful." + ] + }, + "Henry Norris Russell": { + "quotes": [ + "Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them." + ] + }, + "Christa McAuliffe": { + "quotes": [ + "Reach for the stars.", + "Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can." + ] + }, + "James Bond": { + "quotes": [ + "I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done." + ] + }, + "James Daly": { + "quotes": [ + "People say we were an overnight success. 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I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement." + ] + }, + "Robert Battle": { + "quotes": [ + "I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life." + ] + }, + "Jada Pinkett Smith": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad." + ] + }, + "Elizabeth Gilbert": { + "quotes": [ + "My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis." + ] + }, + "Howard Schultz": { + "quotes": [ + "The future of America is not an entitlement. We have been given a treasure chest of gifts and opportunities, but some people are being left behind, and success is not sustainable unless it is shared." + ] + }, + "Marilyn Ferguson": { + "quotes": [ + "Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher." + ] + }, + "Kai Greene": { + "quotes": [ + "Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. 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We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake." + ] + }, + "Kalon Jackson": { + "quotes": [ + "Many people will try to Sell you a Dream, its Your place to let them know you Already have one" + ] + }, + "George Herman": { + "quotes": [ + "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success." + ] + }, + "Lydia Lunch": { + "quotes": [ + "If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike." + ] + }, + "William Blake": { + "quotes": [ + "If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.", + "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." + ] + }, + "R Collier": { + "quotes": [ + "Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build." + ] + }, + "Thomas Kincade": { + "quotes": [ + "I view art as an inspirational tool." + ] + }, + "John D. Rockefeller": { + "quotes": [ + "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.", + "Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.", + "I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. 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A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!", + "There is little success where there is little laughter." + ] + }, + "Robert G. Ingersoll": { + "quotes": [ + "We rise by lifting others." + ] + }, + "Jeffrey Tambor": { + "quotes": [ + "I worked at The Old Globe Theater under the great baton of Craig Noel. One of the great theater heroes that we have. He was so great and so inspirational. I think I did 'Antony and Cleopatra' and 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I lived in Ocean Beach, and my rent was $140 a month." + ] + }, + "Louis C.K": { + "quotes": [ + "As long as you think your past is bad you must be improving" + ] + }, + "Emily Giffin": { + "quotes": [ + "It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed." + ] + }, + " Joel Osteen": { + "quotes": [ + "You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events. 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We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.", + "With self-discipline most anything is possible.", + "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.", + "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.", + "The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.", + "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.", + "Believe you can and you're half way there." + ] + }, + "Tupac Shakur": { + "quotes": [ + "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." + ] + }, + "Gilbert K. Chesterton": { + "quotes": [ + "To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. 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No one can do it for me.", + "When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." + ] + }, + "Kelly LeBrock": { + "quotes": [ + "Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings." + ] + }, + "Samuel Johnson": { + "quotes": [ + "Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified." + ] + }, + "David Cameron": { + "quotes": [ + "I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.", + "Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens." + ] + }, + "Jessye Norman": { + "quotes": [ + "One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation." + ] + }, + "Andrew Stanton": { + "quotes": [ + "I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature." + ] + }, + "W. Clement Stone": { + "quotes": [ + "Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.", + "Prayer is man's greatest power!", + "Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.", + "Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.", + "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.", + "Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying." + ] + }, + "Sarah Ban Breathnach": { + "quotes": [ + "The authentic self is the soul made visible.", + "Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary." + ] + }, + "Steve Garvey": { + "quotes": [ + "We all obviously need others to look up to, and be inspirational to us. Ford did a great job as far as putting the presidency back where it belonged, getting the trust back after Nixon. And President Reagan has been one of the most influential presidents." + ] + }, + "Lao Tzu": { + "quotes": [ + "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.", + "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.", + "Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.", + "New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.", + "Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to'." + ] + }, + "Max Lerner": { + "quotes": [ + "Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there." + ] + }, + "Alex Spanos": { + "quotes": [ + "My greatest success story has been my family." + ] + }, + "Alia Bhatt": { + "quotes": [ + "I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.", + "My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes." + ] + }, + "Al Bernstein": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." + ] + }, + "Molly Ivins": { + "quotes": [ + "'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardice it has covered up over the years. Serve your time, collect your chits, and cash 'em in for your home state? No, I'd say we could ask for more than that from our senators." + ] + }, + "Eugene Delecroix": { + "quotes": [ + "What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough." + ] + }, + "Mark Warner": { + "quotes": [ + "My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed." + ] + }, + "Travis Bradberry": { + "quotes": [ + "When you're working hard and doing all you can to achieve your goals, anything that can give you an edge is powerful and will streamline your path to success.", + "More than half of people who leave their jobs do so because of their relationship with their boss. Smart companies make certain their managers know how to balance being professional with being human. These are the bosses who celebrate an employee's success, empathize with those going through hard times, and challenge people, even when it hurts." + ] + }, + "Einstein": { + "quotes": [ + "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." + ] + }, + "Evan Carmichael": { + "quotes": [ + "Wake up early and tackle the day before it tackles you. Be on offense, not defense." + ] + }, + "Paul Bryant": { + "quotes": [ + "There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.", + "If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards." + ] + }, + "David Chipperfield": { + "quotes": [ + "If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational." + ] + }, + "Charles Caleb Colton": { + "quotes": [ + "Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." + ] + }, + "Edward de Bono": { + "quotes": [ + "To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field." + ] + }, + "Grace Hopper": { + "quotes": [ + "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.", + " It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.", + "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." + ] + }, + "Christopher Morley": { + "quotes": [ + "Act like you expect to get into the end zone.", + "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.", + "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." + ] + }, + "Christopher Columbus": { + "quotes": [ + "You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." + ] + }, + "Og Mandino": { + "quotes": [ + "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.", + "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.", + "Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.", + "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.", + "Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.", + "Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats." + ] + }, + "Robert Browning": { + "quotes": [ + "A minute's success pays the failure of years.", + "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" + ] + }, + "Graham Greene": { + "quotes": [ + "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline." + ] + }, + "Taisen Deshimaru": { + "quotes": [ + "Think with your whole body." + ] + }, + "Daniel H. Pink": { + "quotes": [ + "Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme." + ] + }, + "Tracy Chapman": { + "quotes": [ + "I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again." + ] + }, + "Wesley Clark": { + "quotes": [ + "When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic." + ] + }, + "Ellen Goodman": { + "quotes": [ + "We ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential." + ] + }, + "Brendon Burchard": { + "quotes": [ + "Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.", + "If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow." + ] + }, + "Aristotle": { + "quotes": [ + "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.", + "At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.", + "Education is the best provision for old age.", + "The energy of the mind is the essence of life.", + "Quality is not an act, it is a habit.", + "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." + ] + }, + "Vaibhav Shah": { + "quotes": [ + "Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them." + ] + }, + "Julius Erving": { + "quotes": [ + "The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical." + ] + }, + "Gustav Mahler": { + "quotes": [ + "I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way." + ] + }, + "Walter Winchell": { + "quotes": [ + "Nothing recedes like success." + ] + }, + "Christie Hefner": { + "quotes": [ + "I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success." + ] + }, + "Martina Navratilova": { + "quotes": [ + "I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do." + ] + }, + "Arsene Wenger": { + "quotes": [ + "A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'" + ] + }, + "Bill Shoemaker": { + "quotes": [ + "Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete." + ] + }, + "Eileen Caddy": { + "quotes": [ + "Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way." + ] + }, + "Barack Obama": { + "quotes": [ + "There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.", + "The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.", + "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." + ] + }, + "Napoleon Hill": { + "quotes": [ + "The starting point of all achievement is desire.", + "The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.", + "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.", + "No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.", + "Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.", + "Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.", + "Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.", + "The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.", + "Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.", + "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.", + "Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.", + "A goal is a dream with a deadline.", + "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.", + "You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.", + "Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do." + ] + }, + "Steve Berry": { + "quotes": [ + "A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are." + ] + }, + "Thomas J. Stanley": { + "quotes": [ + "Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success." + ] + }, + "Anthony Saleh": { + "quotes": [ + "I never wake up today with yesterday's problems." + ] + }, + "Thomas Fuller": { + "quotes": [ + "Great hopes make great men.", + "One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low." + ] + }, + "Kevin O'Leary": { + "quotes": [ + "You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like." + ] + } + } +} diff --git a/motivate/motivate.py b/motivate/motivate.py index 668582eb..f0533ddf 100755 --- a/motivate/motivate.py +++ b/motivate/motivate.py @@ -1,10 +1,12 @@ #!/usr/bin/env python3 +import argparse import json import os import random -import argparse - +from quotes_byAuthor import quotes_byAuthor +from rich.console import Console +from rich.panel import Panel def getlink(file): if os.path.islink(file): @@ -53,18 +55,18 @@ def quote(): ran_no = random.randint(1, len(quotes["data"])) - 1 if "quote" in quotes["data"][ran_no]: - quote = quotes["data"][ran_no]["quote"] author = quotes["data"][ran_no]["author"] + quote = quotes["data"][ran_no]["quote"] if os.name == "nt" or args.nocolor: quote = "\"" + quote + "\"" author = "--" + author - white_code = "" else: - quote = "\033[1;36m" + "\"" + quote + "\"" + "\033[1;m" - author = "\033[1;35m" + "--" + author + "\033[1;m" - white_code = "\x1b[0m" - output = quote + "\n\t\t" + author - print(output + white_code) + quote = f"[b]{quote}[/b]" + author = f'[yellow]--{author}' + #white_code = "\x1b[0m" + output = f"{quote}\n{author}" + console = Console() + console.print(Panel(output, expand=False )) else: print ("---------------Debug info begins:--------------") print("This is a message indicating an error in your json database:") @@ -87,6 +89,10 @@ def quote(): if __name__ == "__main__": parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='A simple script to print random motivational quotes.') parser.add_argument('--no-colors', dest='nocolor', default=False, action='store_true', help='Argument to disable colored output. Disabled by default.') + parser.add_argument('-a' , '--author' , type=str, help="Random quote by auther" ) args = parser.parse_args() - quote() + if args.author: + quotes_byAuthor(args) + else: + quote() diff --git a/motivate/quotes_byAuthor.py b/motivate/quotes_byAuthor.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..81ebe2fc --- /dev/null +++ b/motivate/quotes_byAuthor.py @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +import json +import os +import random +from rich.console import Console +from rich.panel import Panel + +scriptpath = os.path.dirname(__file__) +data_dir = os.path.join(scriptpath, 'data_unique') +filename = os.path.join(data_dir, 'unique_quotes.json') +newFile = os.path.join(data_dir, 'quotes_byAuthor.json') + +""" +Function for generating quotes_byAuthor file +which combines quotes from same authors in single list +""" +def create_byAuther_file(): + unique_author = set() + quotes_byAuthor = {} + + with open(file=filename ) as json_data: + try: + quotes = json.load(json_data) + except ValueError: + print ("---------------Debug info begins:--------------") + print("Oops, we met a ValueError.") + print("Please check this file "+filename) + print("1. A Possible reason is that there is a redundant comma behind last group of author/quote in this json file.") + print(" If so, delete that redundant comma, then it will run smoothly.") + print("2. Another possible reason is that there is hard line-break or tab in that file.") + print(" However JSON don't support that. Please use '\\n' or '\\t'.") + print("For later actions, I help you wrote this filename to JSON_ERROR_LIST.txt.") + print("I suggest you to test those json file in this website: jsonlint.com") + f_tmp = open('JSON_ERROR_LIST.txt', "a") + f_tmp.write(filename+"\n") + f_tmp.close() + print ("---------------Debug info ends:--------------") + + for quote in quotes["data"]: + unique_author.add(quote["author"]) + + for author in unique_author: + quote_list = [] + for quote in quotes["data"]: + if author == quote["author"]: + quote_list.append(quote["quote"]) + + quotes_byAuthor[author] = {"quotes" : quote_list} + + with open(newFile, 'w') as quotes_byAuthor_file: + json.dump({'data': dict(quotes_byAuthor)}, quotes_byAuthor_file, indent=4, ensure_ascii=False) + quotes_byAuthor_file.write('\n') + +def quotes_byAuthor(args): + if(os.path.exists(newFile) == False): + create_byAuther_file() + try: + with open(file=newFile ) as json_data: + try: + quotes = json.load(json_data) + except ValueError: + print ("---------------Debug info begins:--------------") + print("Oops, we met a ValueError.") + print("Please check this file "+filename) + print("1. A Possible reason is that there is a redundant comma behind last group of author/quote in this json file.") + print(" If so, delete that redundant comma, then it will run smoothly.") + print("2. Another possible reason is that there is hard line-break or tab in that file.") + print(" However JSON don't support that. Please use '\\n' or '\\t'.") + print("For later actions, I help you wrote this filename to JSON_ERROR_LIST.txt.") + print("I suggest you to test those json file in this website: jsonlint.com") + f_tmp = open('JSON_ERROR_LIST.txt', "a") + f_tmp.write(filename+"\n") + f_tmp.close() + print ("---------------Debug info ends:--------------") + return + author = args.author + ran_no = random.randint(1, len(quotes["data"][author]["quotes"])) - 1 + if "quotes" in quotes["data"][author]: + quote = quotes["data"][author]["quotes"][ran_no] + if os.name == "nt" or args.nocolor: + quote = "\"" + quote + "\"" + author = "--" + author + else: + quote = f"[b]{quote}[/b]" + author = f'[yellow]--{author}' + #white_code = "\x1b[0m" + output = f"{quote}\n{author}" + console = Console() + console.print(Panel(output, expand=False)) + + except FileNotFoundError: + print("Can't find the quotes_byAuthor.json file") + exit(1)