100+ Emotional and Inspirational Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Nelson Mandela

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"By taking care of myself I have so much more to offer the world than I do when I am running on empty."

- Ali Washington

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

- Christopher Germer

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them."

- Walt Disney

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal."

- Naomi Osaka

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before."

- Shinzo Abe

"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."

- Cicely Tyson

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

"Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference."

- Winston Churchill

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

- Willie Nelson

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."

- Lindsey Vonn

"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination"

- Mae Jemison

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."

- Elaine Welteroth

"Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions."

- The Dalai Lama

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

- Mother Theresa

"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

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you."

- Lupita Nyong'o

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

- Michelle Obama

"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- George Eliot

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

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

- Nelson Mandela

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."

- Anne Frank

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

"Hope is the thing that holds you to the belief that there is a better place, a better time, and a better future."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The advice I'd give to somebody that's silently struggling is, you don't have to live that way. You don't have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it, because it's really important you share your experience with people so that you can get the help that you need."

- Demi Lovato

"I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you're not alone. You're not the first to go through it, you're not gonna be the last to go through it."

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary."

- Fred Rogers

"There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn't."

- John Green

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

- Desmond Tutu

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

- Emily Dickinson

"Mental health problems don't define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN."

- Matt Haig

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

- Charles Spurgeon

"The best thing you could do is master the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you are the fire."

- Mama Indigo

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

- Carl Jung

"Start listening to the way you talk to yourself. These interactions will tell you how well you know yourself, how much you respect yourself, and what boundaries you are lacking."

- Sara Kuburic

"When I don’t pay attention to my feelings, I tend to put up with situations and people longer than I should."

- Allyson Dinneen

"The gentlest reminder: You might not need to read another self-help book, attend another training, or bookmark another Instagram post as much as you need to listen to, trust, and practice what you already know. What if the answer you’re looking for is actually within you already?"

- Lisa Olivera

"Deep breathing is our nervous system’s love language."

- Dr. Lauren Fogel Mersy

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

- Dan Millman

"That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren’t ready, then you weren’t ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that."

- Norah Vincent

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"Happiness is not by chance but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

- Kobe Bryant

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

"Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive."

- Jim Thompson

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you."

- Mary Lou Retton

"Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door."

- Brooke Shields

"Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can."

- Vince Lombardi

"The key to life when things get tough is to just keep moving. Just keep moving."

- Tyler Perry

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well-lived."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"You are worthy of love and belonging."

- Brené Brown

"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

- Les Brown

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

- Mikhail Gorbachev

"In the long run, you make your own luck — good, bad, or indifferent."

- Loretta Lynn

"Friends are the family we choose."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Kindness is one thing you can’t give away. It always comes back."

- George Skolsky

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

"Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world."

- Roald Dahl, Matilda

"The moment where you doubt you can fly, you cease for ever being able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

- James M. Barrie

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

- Victor Hugo

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

- Jim Rohn

"Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind."

- Jeffrey Eugenides

"Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope."

- J.K. Rowling

"It's so difficult to describe depression to someone who's never been there because it's not sadness."

- J.K. Rowling

"You say you're depressed - all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human."

- David Mitchell

"Depression is like a heaviness that you can't ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it's in your bones and your blood."

- Jasmine Warga

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

- Samuel Smiles

"Hope is the only thing stronger than fear."

- President Snow

"Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."

- Vaclav Havel

"Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others."

- Parker Palmer

"You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

- Louise L. Hay

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

"The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself."

- Bryant McGill

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

- Sophia Bush

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

- Herman Melville

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"A dead-end street is a good place to turn around."

- Naomi Judd

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

- E.E. Cummings

"It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Caroll

"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you."

- Gabrielle Union

"We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person."

- Anne Heche

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

"The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

- Charles Dickens

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."

- Mark Cuban

"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."

- Grace Kelly

"Emotions aren't just mindless urges; they contain thoughts about matters of importance."

- Martha Nussbaum

"Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers'."

- Amy Poehler

"Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with."

- Sharon Salzberg

"Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind."

- Matthieu Ricard

"I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."

- Ned Vizzini

"Depression is the inability to construct a future."

- Rollo May

"Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things."

- Walt Disney

"Just remember, you are not alone, in fact, you are in a very commonplace with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals."

- Mike Moreno

"Every strike brings me closer to a home run."

- Babe Ruth

"Shine like the whole universe is yours."

- Rumi

"The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [experiencing a mental health struggle], you realize that actually you're part of quite a big club."

- Prince Harry

"Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own."

- Michelle Obama

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all."

- Erik Erikson

"Just keep swimming."

- Finding Nemo

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Dr. Seuss

"Hope is the heartbeat of the soul."

- Michelle Horst

"Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is."

- Henry Rollins

"If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

- Tom Hanks

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting."

- William Shakespeare

"Self-love is the source of all our other loves."

- Yung Pueblo

"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream of coming true."

- Walt Disney

"Hope is a waking dream."

- Aristotle

"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man."

- Pliny the Elder

"I am in that temper that if I were underwater I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

- John Keats

"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."

- William Saroyan

"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"It’s a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon."

- Kermit the Frog, The Muppets

"Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it."

- Ned Vizzini

"It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them."

- Jennifer Niven

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

- Charles M. Schulz

"You gotta put up with the rain!"

- Dolly Parton

"Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember."

- Oscar Levant

"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not"

- Elyn R. Saks

"Even miracles take a little time."

- The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

- Roald Dahl, The Minpins

"Always let your conscience be your guide."

- Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

- Dolly Parton

"Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use."

- Sai Baba

"Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"Part of the problem with America is that letting go of emotions is viewed as a weakness, but it's my strength. That enabled me to write my songs."

- Melanie Martinez

"I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit."

- Malin Akerman

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means."

- Christopher Voss

"as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."

- Nikola Tesla

"Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."

- Thomas Moore

"The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions."

- Tariq Ramadan

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Depression is living in a body that fights to survive with a mind that tries to die."

"I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up."

"Hope is the belief that destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice."

"Happiness is a choice, not a result."

"Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have."

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything."

"True happiness comes from within."

"Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed."

"I'm not okay, but I will be."

"I'm exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel."

"It feels like everyone else is moving on with their lives while I am stuck here, in this hole that I can't climb out of."

"I'm not living. I'm just surviving."

"It's not always tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it's the smile we fake."

"I'm tired of fighting. For once, I want to be fought for."

"The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you're not."

"Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself."

"You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first."

"Happiness is not a destination, it's a way of life."

"Don’t believe everything you think."

"Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too."