Inspiring Words: A Collection of Famous Short Quotes

Discover a treasure trove of short inspirational quotes that uplift and motivate. From the wisdom of Joan of Arc to the insights of Eleanor Roosevelt, this collection features powerful words that can ignite your passion and encourage you to pursue your dreams. Each quote serves as a reminder that greatness often comes from overcoming fear and embracing challenges. Whether you're seeking motivation for your personal journey or looking for a spark of inspiration to share with others, these quotes will resonate deeply. Dive into this compilation and let the words of these remarkable individuals inspire you to take action and live your best life!

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

Happiness

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

- Colin R. Davis

Success

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

Success

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

Success

"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

Persistence

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

Compassion

"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

Success

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

- Estée Lauder

Success

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

- W. P. Kinsella

Happiness

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

Insight

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

Taking Risks

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Ambition

"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

Aspirations

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

Aspirations

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

- Alexander the Great

Motivation

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

Achievement

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

Courage

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

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"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

Adversity

"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

Courage

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

- Shinzo Abe

Resilience

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

- Cicely Tyson

Resilience

"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

Inspiration

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

- William James

Mindfulness

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

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

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

- Willie Nelson

Positivity

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

- Deep Roy

Positivity

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

- Mary Lou Retton

Positivity

"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

Positivity

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

- Herman Melville

Positivity

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

- Anne Frank

Hope

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

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Courage

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

- Charles Dickens

Courage

"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

Facing Fears

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

- The Dalai Lama

Happiness

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

- Jim Rohn

Happiness

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

- John Barrymore

Happiness

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

- Mother Theresa

Happiness

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Creativity

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

- Hafez

Gratitude

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

- Grace Kelly

Contentment

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

- Truman Capote

Failure

"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

Success

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

Success

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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

- Booker T. Washington

Compassion

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

- Ronald Reagan

Compassion

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

Compassion

"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

Compassion

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

- Lewis Caroll

Change

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

Change

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

- Robert Schuller

Resilience

"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

Integrity

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Independence

"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

Independence

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

- Zig Ziglar

Goals

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

- Mandy Hale

Mindfulness

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

- Nicole Kidman

Courage

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

- Lindsey Vonn

Change

"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

Change

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

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

- Amanda Gorman

Courage

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

- Demi Lovato

Hope

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

- Maya Angelou

Success

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

- E.E. Cummings

Happiness

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

- Dr. Seuss

Reflection

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Future

"You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

"You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you."

- Wayne Dyer

Reflection

"Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile…initially scared me to death."

- Betty Bender

Courage

"I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

Motivation

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

- Olivia Newton John

Facing Fears

"Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

Taking Risks

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

Hard Work

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Future

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

- Leonard I. Sweet

Vision

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

Success

"Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

New Beginnings

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

- Joseph Campbell

New Beginnings

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

Generosity

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

Transformation

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

Empowerment

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

Imagination

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

Growth

"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

Ambition

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

- Viola Davis

Aspirations

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

Change

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

Awareness

"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Khalil Gibran

Reflection

"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

Hope

"Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can."

- Nicholas Sparks

Change

"The world you desire can be won. It exists... it is real... it is possible... it’s yours."

- Ayn Rand

Vision

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Success

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

Success

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

Success

"If you don’t have any shadows, you’re not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

Awareness

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

Reflection

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

Learning

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

Success

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Reflection

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

Success

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

Aspirations

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

- Douglas Adams

Reflection

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

Success

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

- May Sarton

Belief in Self

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

Courage

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

Learning from Mistakes

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

Balance

"Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking."

- Lee Ann Womack

Taking Risks

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

- Paulo Coelho

Awareness

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

Philosophy

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

- William Hazlitt

Balance

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life."

- Mark Twain

Happiness

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

Contentment

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

Ambition

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

Courage

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

Personal Growth

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

- William Osler

Contribution

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."

- Buddha

Presence

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

Awareness

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carol

Compassion

"There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."

- Kurt Vonnegut

Love

"Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life."

- Philip Appleman

Philosophy

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

Hope

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

- Malcolm X

Education

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

- Nelson Mandela

Education

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Education

"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

Success

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

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

"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."

- Mark Twain

Personal Growth

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

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

Love

"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

Empowerment

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

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

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

- Lily Tomlin

Self-awareness

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

- Mark Cuban

Positivity

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Optimism

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Ariana Huffington

Learning from Mistakes

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

Courage

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

Inner Peace

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

Facing Fears

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

- Ayn Rand

Ambition

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

- Thomas Edison

Resilience

"Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

Motivation

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Happiness

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

Balance

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

Creativity

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

- Mark Twain

Personal Growth

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

Reflection

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

Persistence

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

Resilience

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

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

Courage

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

Self-awareness

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

Self-awareness

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

Presence

"It’s not the will to win that matters —everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

Hard Work

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

Mindfulness

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

Aspirations

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contribution

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

- William James

Contribution

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

Ambition

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

- Michael Altshuler

Time Management

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

- Jimmy Dean

Change

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

Generosity

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

Transformation

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

- Mikhail Gorbachev

Personal Growth

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

- Loretta Lynn

Success

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

- Muhammad Ali

Belief in Self

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- Mae Jemison

Ambition

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

- Marie Curie

Ambition

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

- Steve Jobs

Ambition

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

- Helen Keller

Courage

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Empowerment

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

- Carol Burnett

Aspirations

"I am not afraid. I was born to do this."

- Joan of Arc

Bravery

"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love."

- Gandhi

Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

- Mark Twain

Forgiveness

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

- Ghandi

Forgiveness

"The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering."

- don Miguel Ruiz

Happiness

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

- William Arthur Ward

Overcoming Obstacles

"The sanest thing in this world is love."

- Anne Sexton

Love

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."

- Mother Teresa

Aspirations

"When two people fall in love, past and future disappear."

- The Alchemist

Love

"Love means protection, adoration, mutual growth, & respect above all other things. Without this, love is an illusion, a confused attachment."

- Dena Botbyl

Love

"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."

- Armand Hammer

Hard Work

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

- Sun Tzu

Taking Risks

"It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."

- Anthony Robbins

Hard Work

"Ask not what the world needs; ask what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

Aspirations

"The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child."

- Deepak Chopra

Presence

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Presence

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be."

- Clementine Paddleford

Courage

"The only limits we have are the limits we believe."

- Wayne Dyer

Belief in Self

"You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you."

- Joseph Campbell

Personal Growth

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

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

- Albert Einstein

Wisdom

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

- Ghandi

Perseverance

"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods."

- Socrates

Contentment

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

Belief in Self

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

- Carol Burnett

Ambition

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

Compassion

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

Self-confidence

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

Ambition

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Facing Fears

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

Perseverance

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

Self-awareness

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

Personal Growth

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

Empowerment

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

Ambition

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Facing Fears

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

- George Eliot

New Beginnings

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

Hard Work

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

Determination

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

- Mark Twain

Philosophy

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

Philosophy

"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

Self-awareness

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

Self-awareness

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

- Andre Gide

Love

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

Happiness

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

Perseverance

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

Positivity

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

- Margaret Mead

Self-awareness

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

- Mandy Hale

Mindfulness

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

- Albert Einstein

Balance

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Aspirations

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

Contentment

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

- Aristotle

Hope

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

Joy

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

"I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

Taking Risks

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

- William James

Mindfulness

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

Self-improvement

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

Contentment

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

Creativity

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

Contentment

"Take the attitude of a student: never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new."

- Augustine Og Mandino

Learning

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

Empowerment

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

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

- Napoleon Hill

Determination

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

Motivation

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

Creativity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

Personal Growth

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

Empowerment

"Power’s not given to you. You have to take it."

- Beyoncé

Empowerment

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"You have power over your mind —not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

Self-awareness

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

"It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

Resilience

"With great power comes great responsibility."

- Voltaire

Responsibility

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Compassion

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

Change

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

Courage

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

Health

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

Success

"Be a positive energy trampoline —absorb what you need and rebound more back."

- Dave Carolan

Positivity

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

Motivation

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

Positivity

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

Optimism

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

Family

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

Self-esteem

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

Belief in Self

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

Hard Work

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

Joy

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

- Warren Buffet

Generosity

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance

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

- Amanda Gorman

Change

"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

Transformation

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

Belief in Self

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

- John Dewey

Education

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

Learning

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

Goals

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

Success

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

- Albert Einstein

Success

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you"

- Walt Whitman

Optimism

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

- Sundar Pichai

Success

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

Failure

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

- Vera Wang

Success

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

Resilience

"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

Perseverance

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

- Les Brown

Responsibility

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

- e.e. cummings

Self-confidence

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

- Abraham Maslow

Achievement

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

Inspiration

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

Goals

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

Compassion

"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

- Cindy Gallop

Empowerment

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

Empowerment

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

Empowerment

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

Empowerment

"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back."

- Malala Yousafzai

Empowerment

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

Empowerment

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Empowerment

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

Learning from Mistakes

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Empowerment

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

Empowerment

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

Strength

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

Success

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Success

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

Resilience

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

Determination

"Going in one more round when you don’t think you can. That’s what makes all the difference in your life."

- Rocky Balboa

Perseverance

"Always be a first version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."

- Judy Garland

Belief in Self

"I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it."

- Estée Lauder

Hard Work

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

- Mark Twain

Aspirations

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

- Paulo Coelho

Personal Growth

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

Learning

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

Time Management

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

- Helen Keller

Optimism

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

Focus

"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."

- Tony Robbins

Goals

"Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

Success

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

Gratitude

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

Resilience

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Change

"Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation."

- Viktor Frankl

Empowerment

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Awareness

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

Change

"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

Hard Work

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."

- Laozi

Self-awareness

"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Compassion

"You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were."

- Sidney Poitier

Personal Growth

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

- William Faulkner

Gratitude

"True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from."

- Brianna Wiest

Self-care

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business."

- Michael J. Fox

Success

"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Choice

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure."

- Paulo Coelho

Awareness

"If you want to do this, if you want to play big, if you want to really impact lives, you’ve got to face yourself. You’ve got to be courageous and willing to go all in and address everything about you that is uncomfortable."

- Harry Lopez

Courage

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."

- Karen Lamb

Motivation

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

- James Clear

Personal Growth

"We should care as much about well-doing as well-being. I want to live in a world that values purpose as much as pleasure, contribution as much as contentment, honesty as much as excitement, and justice as much as joy."

- Adam Grant

Contentment

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Learning

"Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle."

- Sanya Richards-Ross

Courage

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."

- Vernon Sanders Law

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Norman Cousins

Awareness

"You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compassion

"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are."

- Gretel Ehrlich

Self-awareness

"If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade."

- Tom Peters

Taking Risks

"Self-discipline is doing what’s right instead of doing what you feel like doing. That’s the meaning of self-disciple."

- Eliud Kipchoge

Determination

"The quality of our life on planet earth depends on the choices we make every day."

- BJ Fogg

Choice

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

- Rene Descartes

Education

"You really have to love yourself first to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

Self-esteem

"The direction you choose to face determines whether you’re standing at the end or the beginning of a road."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

Choice

"Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

- M. Scott Peck

Self-esteem

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

- John Lubbock

Balance

"The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade."

- Benjamin Franklin

Success

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

Change

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

- Amy Poehler

Balance

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

Determination

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

Determination

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

- Robin Sharma

Success

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

Courage

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

- Warren Buffett

Contribution

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Empowerment

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

"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

Personal Growth

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

- Helen Keller

Education

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

- Walt Disney

Education

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

Learning from Mistakes

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

Education

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

- Cesar Chavez

Education

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

Happiness

"and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

Contribution

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

- Epictetus

Contentment

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Rick Warren

Personal Growth

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

- Sydney J. Harris

Education

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

- George Eliot

Transformation

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

Empowerment

"What you learn from a life in science is the vastness of our ignorance."

- David Eagleman

Awareness

"The same elements of your brain light up when you consider your future self as when you consider a stranger. That may be why your present self is so quick to sell your future self short by procrastinating."

- Tim Pychyl

Productivity

"You are not responsible for your first thought, but you are responsible for your second thought."

- Raquel Smith

Self-awareness

"Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Teller

Determination

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

- Warren Buffett

Awareness

"The paradox of learning is that to get better, you need to go outside your comfort zone, and thus feel worse. The people who grow continuously, thus feel consistently over their heads."

- Scott Young

Growth

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

- R. A. Heinlein

Personal Growth

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

- Naomi Judd

Reflection

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

- Erasmus

Learning from Mistakes

"Slow is smooth and smooth is fast."

- Navy SEALs

Efficiency

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

Respect

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

Reflection

"I know people that believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves."

- Mitch Hedberg

Belief in Self

"Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people that they don’t like."

- Will Rogers

Awareness

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

- Bill Nye

Knowledge

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

- Dolly Parton

Optimism

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

- Shonda Rhimes

Personal Growth

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

Empowerment

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

- Yvie Oddly

Success

"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity

"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

Resilience

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Leadership

"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

- Tom Lehrer

Reflection

"Whatever is… is best."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Faith

"God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. You were never not coming here."

- Sufi poem

Faith

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

Positivity

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

Aspirations

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Leadership

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Leadership

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."

Aspirations

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

Taking Risks

"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."

Empowerment

"Discipline is an exercise of repetition. Not once or twice but until. Until completed."

Persistence

"Every shadow—no matter how deep—is threatened by morning light."

- Unknown

Hope

"Work until your bank account looks like a phone number."

Success

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

Resilience

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

Self-awareness

"Recognizing and acknowledging our boundaries is critical and healthy both for our mind and body — it’s stressful when we are pressured to do something we should not."

Awareness

"What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated."

Efficiency

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

Failure

"If you want more time, freedom, and energy, start saying no."

Balance

"Budgeting isn’t about limiting yourself — it’s about making the things that excite you possible."

Balance