116 Great Short Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Your Day

"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

"You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both."

- Brené Brown

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

"Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid at the exact same time"

- Brené Brown

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

- Laozi

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

- Judy Garland

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

- Karen Lamb

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

- James Clear

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

- Sanya Richards-Ross

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

- Albert Camus

"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

"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

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."

- Banksy

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Sundar Pichai

"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.

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

- Les Brown

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

- George Eliot

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

"It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."

- Seneca

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

- G.T. Shedd

"Courage does not always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Alice Walker

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Ayn Rand

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

- Steve Jobs

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Amelia Earhart

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."

- Henry Ford

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Angela Davis

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Teller

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

- Mitch Hedberg

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Willie Nelson

"The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don't love you back."

- Warren Buffett

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

- Michael J. Fox

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Malcolm X

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What we think, we become."

- Buddha

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Martin Luther King III

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Warren Buffett

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Vera Wang

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Dolly Parton

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

"Don't give into your fears, if you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."

- Paulo Coelho

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing"

- Helen Keller

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

- Buddhist quote

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."

- Mother Theresa

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

- W. P. Kinsella

"A woman is like a tea bag— you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Women must try to do as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."

- Amelia Earhart

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half their inferior. Luckily, this is not difficult."

- Charlotte Whitton

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

- Coco Chanel

"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult."

- Melinda Gates

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Mae West

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."

- Kevin Kruse

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

- Confucius

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Norman Cousins

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Tom Peters

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."

- Carl Sagan

"My anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it."

- Hugh Prather

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

"Slow is smooth and smooth is fast."

- Navy SEALs

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

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

- Bill Nye

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backward and in high heels."

- Ann Richards

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

- Margaret Thatcher

"It's not your job to like me, it's mine."

- Byron Katie

"I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all."

- Coco Chanel

"We have to become the men we wanted to marry."

- Gloria Steinem

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Gretel Ehrlich

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

- Erasmus

"Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not."

- Anna Neagle

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

- William Faulkner

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

- Victor Hugo

"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

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most people dread it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

- Aristotle

"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

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