Coco Chanel's quotes

Gabrielle Chanel who we all know as Coco Chanel was a French dress designer whose career enjoyed 60 years on top of Parisian haute couture. Her empire was made phenomenal by the extraordinary success of the perfume Chanel No. 5, which was introduced in 1922.

Here are some inspiring quotes from Coco Chanel:

1. "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

2. "I've never done anything by halves."

3. "Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them."

4. "I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."

5. "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

Louisa May Alcott's quotations

Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist best known for her novel "Little Women" published in1868.

Quotes from Louisa Alcott:

1. "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

2. "Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well."

3. "We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."

4. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

5. "Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."

Quotes from Henry Valentine Miller

Henry Valentine Miller, an American painter and writer, known for his famousnovels Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and Black Spring.

Here are Henry Miller's quotes:

1. “Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ”

2. “Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

3. "Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring."

4. "In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

5. "What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs."

George Bernard Shaw's Inspiring Quotes

George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

He also received an Academy Award for Writing the Adapted Screenplay for the film Pygmalion in 1938.

Here are his inspiring quotations:
1. "The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."

2. "The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

3. "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."

4. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

5. "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."