Whether you’re a student, business owner or employee, everybody gets stuck in a rut at times. Maybe you feel like you’ve failed at something and success is a far fetched dream. Or maybe you’re questioning everything about your life –career, friends, and family. Whatever you’re going through right now, it’s important  to remember that emotions are temporary. Steve Harvey said it best: “A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction.”
Below are some more inspirational quotes and words of encouragement from a few other celebrities, innovators, and change makers.
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“Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren’t real. They’re just God’s way of testing you. He’s asking you, ‘Do you want to make it or not?'” ~Russell Simmons, hip-hop MogulÂ
“Overcoming showed me that you can’t play victim. You have to see the light at the end of the tunnel and believe in yourself. Sometimes life deals us a bad hand, but you have to be able to maneuver and adapt. That experience has been invaluable for me in my career.†~Everette Taylor, marketing entrepreneur & BE Modern ManÂ
“It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
~J. K. Rowling, Author, Harry Potter book series
“You can choose to let whatever happened today carry into your tomorrow, or you can choose to shake it off, stop taking yourself so serious, realize you’re going to get some things wrong, and respect yourself for having it in you to keep trying until you get it right. That’s strength. Give yourself more credit. You’re not broken, you’re building and growing, it takes time to be whole. Change what you speak over yourself.” ~Rob Hill Sr. entrepreneur and motivational speaker
“When you are down on your back, if you can look up, you can get up.”~Les Brown, motivational speaker, author, and entrepreneur
“Self-accountability is the #1 habit that contributes to my success. Everybody else hustles like there’s a tomorrow, but I hustle like there’s only one more second left to this hustle. And that’s what makes me different. I’m going to follow through.†~Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, music mogul
“I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘my back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.” ~Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers basketball player
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ~Angela Davis, American political activist, scholar, and author
“Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours; countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.”
~Serena Williams, American tennis player
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“Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off. ~Kevin Hart, comedian
“I know some people say ‘keep your eyes on the prize,’ but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you’re going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you’ve got to keep your eyes focused on the path.” ~Russell Simmons, hip-hop mogul
“I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.” ~Star Jones; lawyer, journalist, and television personality
“The next home-going service at your church could be yours. And the most important thing on that day won’t be the amount of flowers that surround your casket or how well the choir sings your favorite hymn. The only thing that will matter is how well you use that dash between the day you were born and the day you die.†~Steve Harvey; comedian and talk show host
“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut; Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.†Magic Johnson; retired professional basketball player and business magnate
“My father used to say to me, ‘The only limit to your success is your own imagination.’ I actually believed that–like, I’m still coming to terms with the fact that I might not be an Olympic figure skater. I’m sure there are barriers. I have just chosen not to acknowledge them.”~Shonda Rhimes, showrunner
“You have to define your own standards for success. Don’t let other people tell you you’re successful or not.”~ Will Packer, Hollywood producer