109 Best Daily Inspirational Quotes to Transform Your Life

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more."

- Melody Beattie

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."

- George Eliot

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

- Paulo Coelho

"If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl; but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King III

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want."

- Kevin Ngo

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative. Being positive means overcoming the negative."

- Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Francis of Assisi

"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"Practice creates confidence. Confidence empowers you."

- Simone Biles

"Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other."

- Randy Pausch

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

- Steve Maraboli

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

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

- Albert Einstein

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Make yourself a priority once in a while. It's not selfish, it's necessary."

- Karen A. Baquiran

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

"Patience is not simply the ability to wait—it's how we behave while we're waiting."

- Joyce Meyer

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."

- Jeff Bezos

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

- B. C. Forbes

"Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do."

- Bob Ross

"The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see."

- Mary Davis

"When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Have patience with all things, but, first of all with yourself."

- Saint Francis de Sales

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is practice."

- Vladimir Horowitz

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

- Robert Byrne

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- E.E. Cummings

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"Never underestimate the investment you make in yourself."

- Jag Chima

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

- Plato

"The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self."

- Fred Rogers

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."

- Bill Nye

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."

- Debbi Fields

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Practice like you've never won. Play like you've never lost."

- Michael Jordan

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

- Ray Goforth

"What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count."

- Albert Einstein

"The more generous we are, the more joyous we become."

- William Arthur Ward

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."

- Margaret Cho

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."

- Richard Bach

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."

- Joseph Campbell

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply."

- Stephen R. Covey

"Practice is the best of all instructors."

- Publilius Syrus

"Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else."

- Sara Blakely

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."

- Abraham Lincoln

"When we're growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

- Anne Frank

"It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy."

- Mary Flannery O'Connor

"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."

- Susan Sarandon

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"The most important thing that you can do on this planet - elevate, transform and illumine your own consciousness."

- Carlos Santana

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

- Voltaire

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."

- Cornel West

"If you're not a leader on the bench, don't call yourself a leader on the field. You're either a leader everywhere or nowhere."

- Abby Wambach

"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."

- Abraham Maslow

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore