26. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt
27. “Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is head down and focus on the job.”
—Chris Pine
28. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
—Alice Walker
29. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
—Abraham Lincoln
30. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
—Mother Teresa
31. “Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.”
—Will Smith
32. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
—George Addair
33. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
—Oscar Wilde
34. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
—Frida Kahlo
35. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
—Aristotle
36. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
—Vincent Van Gogh
37. “You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
38. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
—Muhammad Ali
39. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
—C.S. Lewis
40. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help you create the fact.”
—William James
41. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”
—Serena Williams
42. “I’m continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing.”
—Ashton Kutcher
43. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”
—Earl Nightingale
44. “Make each day your masterpiece.”
—John Wooden
45. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
46. “You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?”
—George Bernard Shaw
47. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
—George Eliot
48. “You can never be the best. The only thing you can be the best at is developing yourself.”
—Natalie Portman
49. “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
—Socrates
50. “You can do anything you set your mind to.”
—Benjamin Franklin
51. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
—Henry David Thoreau
52. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
—Zig Ziglar
53. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
54. ” Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
—Winston Churchill
55. “Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.”
—Jim Rohn
56. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
57. “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.”
—Vince Lombardi
This article originally appeared on Teen Vogue.