If you're anything like me, you wake up some days dreading the thought of facing the day.
For those days when even a double espresso does nothing for you here are some of my favourite quotes to motivate, inspire and help you smash your goals!
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves - William Shakespeare
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well - William Osler
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny - Aristotle
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end ― Ursula K Le Guin
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure - Samuel Johnson
There is nothing more deceptive than the obvious fact - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man ― Heraclitus
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance - Samuel Johnson
For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end ― Michelle Obama
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts - Charles Dickens
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls ― Anaïs Nin
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man - George Bernard Shaw
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done - Marie Curie
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn - Benjamin Franklin
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life - Robert Louis Stevenson
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started― Henry Ward Beecher
The important thing is not to stop questioning - Albert Einstein
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach - Aristotle
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air - John Quincy Adams
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another - Charles Dickens
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious - Albert Einstein
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle - Plato
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing - Benjamin Franklin
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required - Winston Churcill
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood - Marie Curie
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love - William Wordsworth
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things - Isaac Newton
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility - William Osler
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much - Oscar Wilde
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed - Alexander Pope
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires - Paulo Coelho
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something - Plato
Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you - Aldous Huxley
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant - Robert Louis Stevenson
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing - Socrates
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid - Benjamin Franklin
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure - Paulo Coelho
Solitude sometimes is best society - John Milton
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time - George Bernard Shaw
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance - Socrates
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease - William Osler
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm - Aldous Huxley
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts - Winston Churchill
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation - Oscar Wilde
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have - Socrates
Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure - Paulo Coelho
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men - Plato
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well - Robert Louis Stevenson
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal - Albert Camus
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise - Victor Hugo
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others - Roy T Bennett
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it - Salvador Dali
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things - Leonardo da Vinci
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do - Bob Dylan
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable - Coco Chanel
Don't mistake activity with achievement - John Wooden
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing - Abraham Lincoln