Espresso with a Side of Inspiration: 30 of our Favourite Quotes

Lacking motivation? Today’s double espresso letting you down? No worries, here at WME our eclectic team of professionals and creatives hit the ground running day-in-day-out, whether it’s a Monday morning or Friday afternoon. Today’s post follows the tone set by our What’s Inspiring WME post. However, today’s addition comes with its own unique twist. Late last week we reached out to the entire team to contribute their favourite quotes, spreading the word across every department. To our surprise, they came through in droves. Not to overwhelm you, we’ve compiled the very best of them in our very own WME top 30.

“Create your own opportunities” – Sophia Amoruso
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Ghandi
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” – Oscar Wilde
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in, day out”
“I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times” – Bruce Lee
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
“Trust people and they’ll trust you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great” – Henry Ford
“Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don’t know whether you’re in a trough until you’re climbing out, or on a peak until you’re coming down. You never know what’s round the corner.” – Nelson Mandela
Be fearful when others are greedy, be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffet
“Discipline is the difference between choosing what you want now and what you want most.”
“Skate where the puck is going.” – Wayne Gretzky
“The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
“To die is nothing, but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day.” – Napoleon
“In the game of life, when you sow an action you reap a habit. When you sow a habit you reap a character, when you sow a character you reap a destiny.” – Zig Ziglar
“When it seems impossible, when it seems like nothing is going to work, you’re usually a few millimetres from making it work.” – Tony Robbins
“Am I building a pipeline or hauling buckets? Am I working harder or am I working faster?” – Robert Kiyosaki
“I’ll ride the spiral to the end, it may just go where no one’s been” – Lateralus, Tool
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.” – Albert Einstein
“Without struggle there is no progress.” – Fredrick Douglass “The best revenge is success.” – Frank Sinatra
“In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
“Try not! Do or do not, there is no try.”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am, I am, I am. – Sylvia Plath
“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Ruin is the path that leads to transformation”