Golden Words from Great Minds

Inspiration for every day, from the minds that moved the world

Discover and share the timeless wisdom of great leaders

Leadership

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge."

- Simon Sinek

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

- John C. Maxwell

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."

- Ronald Reagan

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you."

- Unknown

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

Wisdom

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

- Plato

Success

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Innovation & Creativity

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"Every artist was first an amateur."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal Growth

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but unlearning old limits."

- Alan Cohen

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

Courage & Persistence

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

Education & Knowledge

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

- Aristotle

"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."

- Albert Einstein