quotes.js

const QUOTES = [
  // Existing verified ones
  "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill",
  "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs",
  "Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. – Will Rogers",
  "You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky",
  "The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney",
  "Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson",
  "The future depends on what you do today. – Mahatma Gandhi",
  "If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. – Steve Jobs",
  "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain",
  "It always seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela",
  "Don’t count the days, make the days count. – Muhammad Ali",
  "The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. – Tony Robbins",
  "The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory. – Les Brown",
  "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon",
  "Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. – Walter Elliot",
  "If you want it, work for it.",
  "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gogh",
  "You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. – George Lorimer",
  "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. – Jimmy Johnson",
  "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt",
  "Dream big and dare to fail. – Norman Vaughan",
  "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson",
  "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe",
  "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis",
  "If you can dream it, you can do it. – Walt Disney",
  "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James",
  "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu",
  "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb",
  "You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. – Zig Ziglar",
  "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. – Ralph Marston",
  "Opportunities don’t happen, you create them. – Chris Grosser",
  "The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on. – Charles Dickens",
  "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt",
  "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier",
  "Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey",
  "I never dreamed about success, I worked for it. – Estée Lauder",
  "Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality. – Les Brown",
  "Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. – Theodore Roosevelt",
  "Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. – Bo Jackson",
  "Small progress is still progress.",
  "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Rohn",
  "The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips",
  "Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. – Angela Bassett",
  "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau",
  "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt",
  "Believe in yourself and all that you are. – Christian D. Larson",
  "Energy and persistence conquer all things. – Benjamin Franklin",
  "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein",
  "Do something today that your future self will thank you for.",
  "The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. – John D. Rockefeller Jr.",
  "Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. – Anne Lamott",
  "The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Buddha",
  "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. – W. Clement Stone",
  "The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. – Epicurus",
  "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker",
  "The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost",
  "If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse. – Jim Rohn",
  "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Confucius",
  "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Zig Ziglar",
  "Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise. – Kobe Bryant",
  "The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker",
  "Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt",
  "Magic is believing in yourself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe",
  "Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. – Charles R. Swindoll",
  "You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King Jr.",
  "Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. – W. P. Kinsella",
  "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller",
  "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. – John Wooden",
  "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. – Dale Carnegie",
  "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan ’Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. – Calvin Coolidge",

  // NEW verified additions
  "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde",
  "You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth. – William W. Purkey",
  "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi",
  "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr.",
  "We accept the love we think we deserve. – Stephen Chbosky",
  "Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche",
  "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. – Marilyn Monroe",
  "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein",
  "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde",
  "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. – Neil Gaiman",
  "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. – Bil Keane",
  "I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas A. Edison",
  "The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel",
  "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss",
  "It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot",
  "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou",
  "Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso",
  "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. Lewis",
  "Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw",
  "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. – J.K. Rowling",
  "Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. – Shel Silverstein",
  "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. – Paulo Coelho",
  "You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one. – John Lennon",
  "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. – Marianne Williamson",
  "It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. – Lewis Carroll",

  // More inspiration & perspective
  "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson",
  "Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin",
  "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin",
  "Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius",
  "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius",
  "The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there. – Vince Lombardi",
  "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche",
  "Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. – Vincent van Gogh",
  "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. – G.K. Chesterton",
  "Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher",
  "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – E.E. Cummings",
  "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. – Plutarch",
  "Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman",
  "Whoever is happy will make others happy too. – Anne Frank",
  "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle Onassis",
  "I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. – Rosa Parks",
  "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. – Mother Teresa",
  "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt",
  "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama",
  "In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost",
  "An unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates",
  "Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right. – Henry Ford"
];