The Greatest Inspirational Quotes of All Time

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

- FDR

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

- Henry Ford

"It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame."

- Erica Jong

"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

"I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."

- Benjamin Franklin

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

- Bill Cosby

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

- Albert Einstein

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it."

- Chinese Proverb

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."

- Roger Staubach

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking."

- Steve Jobs

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

- Vincent van Gogh

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."

- James Cameron

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings."

- Ann Landers

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."

- Abigail Van Buren

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at."

- Jesse Owens

"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance."

- Sir Claus Moser

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

- Rosa Parks

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."

- Dalai Lama

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Mother Teresa

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Teddy Roosevelt

"If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten."

- Tony Robbins

"It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."

- Mae Jemison

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

- Beverly Sills

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Maya Angelou

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Helen Keller

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

- Anthony Robbins

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."

- Mother Teresa

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

- Albert Einstein

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Mae West

"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life."

- John Wooden

"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."

- D. H. Lawrence

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Robert Frost

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"Life is trying things to see if they work."

- Ray Bradbury

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dalai Lama

"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."

- Aristotle

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."

- Latin Proverb

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

- Marie Curie

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

- Les Brown

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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

- Booker T. Washington

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

- ANNE FRANK

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Babe Ruth

"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."

- W. Clement Stone

"Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being."

- Kevin Kruse

"We become what we think about."

- Earl Nightingale

"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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

- Mark Twain

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."

- Charles Swindoll

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

- Buddha

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

- Pablo Picasso

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- Christopher Columbus

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Mark Twain

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Anais Nin

"If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

- Aristotle

"Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you."

- Jesus

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me."

- Erma Bombeck

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."

- Booker T. Washington

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart."

- Ancient Indian Proverb

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

- Plato

"Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know," and thous shalt progress."

- Maimonides

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

- Arthur Ashe

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."

- John Lennon

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see."

- Confucius

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Winston Churchill

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Ayn Rand

"If you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

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

- Viola Davis

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Walt Disney

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

"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

"You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

"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

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

- Estée Lauder

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Steve Jobs

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Aristotle

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

- George Eliot

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

- Walt Whitman

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

"Don't count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

- Geena Davis

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

- Truman Capote

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."

- Taylor Swift

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

- Michelle Obama

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."

- Gabrielle Union

"No matter how far away from yourself you may have strayed, there is always a path back. You already know who you are and how to fulfill your destiny."

- Oprah Winfrey

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

"It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. I realized later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole."

- Jane Fonda

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

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

- Alice Walker

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

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

- George Addair

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

- Rosa Parks

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Robert Frost

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Confucius

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you're having fun, that's when the best memories are built."

- Simone Biles

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Tony Robbins

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

- William Shakespeare

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Knowledge is power."

- Francis Bacon

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness."

- Confucius

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

- Robert Schuller

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

- Karen Lamb

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

- John F. Kennedy

"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Winston Churchill

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Mae West

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Ingrid Bergman

"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

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

- William Shakespeare

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Herman Melville

"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

"It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Don’t find fault, find a remedy: anyone can complain."

- Henry Ford

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

- Will Rogers

"A small leak will sink a great ship."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Life is short and it is here to be lived."

- Katharine Hepburn

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

- Arlan Hamilton

"The old man and the sea is a story about the triumph of the human spirit."

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Cindy Gallop

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

- Thomas Edison

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Dorothy West

"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans."

- Allen Saunders

"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

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

- Walter Anderson

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

- Dan Millman

"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back."

- Eugene O’Neill

"It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management."

- Alexandra of The Productivity Zone

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

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

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."

- Unknown

"You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground."

- Unknown

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

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