100+ Inspirational Positive Life Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

### Discover the Power of Positivity Through Words Dive into a curated collection of over 100 inspirational positive life quotes from some of the greatest minds and hearts throughout history. These quotes are designed to uplift your spirit, motivate your journey, and remind you of the strength within. ### Why Positive Quotes Matter In moments of doubt or challenge, a few words of encouragement can spark a transformation. This collection features timeless wisdom from figures like Maya Angelou, Winston Churchill, and Oprah Winfrey, offering perspectives on courage, happiness, perseverance, and self-belief. ### How to Use This Collection Whether you need a daily dose of motivation, a thoughtful gift, or a reminder to stay positive, these quotes serve as a beacon of hope and inspiration. Bookmark this page, share your favorites, and let these words guide you toward a more positive and fulfilling life.

Wisdom from the Masters

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

- Les Brown

Motivation

"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

Failure

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

Positivity

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

Positivity

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

- Dr. Seuss

Education

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

Motivation

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

Positivity

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

- Mary Lou Retton

Happiness

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

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

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

- Tyler Perry

Perseverance

"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

Courage

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

Belief in Self

"When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, "What are you gonna do about it?" I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me."

- Beyonce

Personal Growth

"Believing you are unworthy of love and belonging—that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong—is deadly. Who you are is beautiful and amazing."

- Laverne Cox

Self-esteem

"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

Courage

"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

Courage

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

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

"Your attitude is critical to success. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work."

- Nick Saban

Success

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

- Dr. Seuss

Self-awareness

"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive."

- Matt Cameron

Positivity

"You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try."

- Dolly Parton

Courage

"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."

- Michael Jordan

Positivity

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

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

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

- Albert Einstein

Balance

"Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world."

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"

- Bruce Lee

Time Management

"You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events."

- Joel Osteen

Resilience

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."

- Roy T. Bennett

Motivation

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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

- Dolly Parton

Adaptation

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

- Nelson Mandela

Resilience

"Happiness is not by chance but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

Happiness

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

- Thomas A. Edison

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Aspirations

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

- Kobe Bryant

Inspiration

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

- Michelle Obama

Success

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

- Willie Nelson

Positivity

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

Resilience

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

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

- Winston Churchill

Success

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

- Nelson Mandela

Education

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"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

"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

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

- Serena Williams

Belief in Self

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- Dolly Parton

Self-awareness

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- Tony Robbins

Goals

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

Positivity

"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

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

Resilience

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

- Charles Dickens

Hope

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Perseverance

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

New Beginnings

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

Personal Growth

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Belief in Self

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

- Buddha

Belief

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

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

- Carol Burnett

Ambition

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Happiness

"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

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

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

- Confucius

Perseverance

"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

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

Happiness

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

- Deepak Chopra

Ambition

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

Change

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

Self-awareness

"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

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

Self-awareness

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- Napoleon Hill

Motivation

"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

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

- Robert Frost

Philosophy

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

Motivation

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

- Buddha

Philosophy

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

- Marcus Aurelius

Awareness

"Light tomorrow with today!"

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hope

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

Persistence

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

- Confucius

Perseverance

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

Compassion

"In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision."

- Dalai Lama

Vision

"Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day."

- Alice Morse Earle

Positivity

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

- Paulo Coelho

Personal Growth

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

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

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

- Dale Carnegie

Learning from Mistakes

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

- David Brinkley

Resilience

"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

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

- George Lorimer

Determination

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

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

"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

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Vision

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

- Vince Lombardi

Success

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

- Helen Keller

Optimism

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

- Zig Ziglar

Motivation

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

"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

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

Change

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Gratitude

"Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life."

- Germany Kent

Motivation

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

Service

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

Motivation

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

Determination

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

- Warren Buffet

Generosity

"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

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

Balance

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

Empowerment

"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

Time Management

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

- Buddha

Presence

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

- Robert Byrne

Philosophy

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

- Lewis Carroll

Compassion

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

Courage

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."

- Anne Frank

Compassion

"So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow."

- Rainbow Rowell

Positivity

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

Self-care

"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

"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

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

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

- Will Rogers

Reflection

"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

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

- Tony Robbins

Goals

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

Time Management

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

"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

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

- Ruth Gordo

Courage

"You'll never get bored when you try something new. There's really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

New Beginnings

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

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

- Jane Goodall

Compassion

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

Personal Growth

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

Empowerment

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

Self-awareness

"No one changes the world who isn't obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Drive

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

Taking Risks

"Friends are the family we choose."

- Jennifer Aniston

Relationships

"My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you."

- Mavis Staples

Motivation

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

- George Skolsky

Compassion

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Courage

"Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look."

- Jodi Picoult

Creativity

"It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver."

- Betty White

Joy

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon."

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

Gratitude

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

- Naomi Judd

New Beginnings

"A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."

- Joyce Meyer

Aspirations

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

- Lucille Ball

Resilience

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

- Jim Thompson

Positivity

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

- Brooke Shields

Happiness

"Be yourself and people will like you."

- Jeff Kinney

Belief in Self

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

- Mae West

Contentment

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

- E.E. Cummings

Happiness

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

Inspiration

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

Resilience

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

Taking Risks

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

- Henry Ford

Failure

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

- Confucius

Resilience

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

- Bill Gates

Learning from Mistakes

"I can't tell you how many times I've been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

Optimism

"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

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

- Ayn Rand

Ambition

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

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

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

- Drew Houston

Failure

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

- Drake

Balance

"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

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

Hard Work

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

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

Success

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

- Napoleon Hill

Determination

"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

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

- Mark Twain

Vision

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

Awareness

"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

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

Balance

"Shine like the whole universe is yours."

- Rumi

Joy

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

Self-esteem

"Even miracles take a little time"

- The Fairy Godmother

Hope

"Just keep swimming"

- Dory

Perseverance

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

- Roald Dahl, The Minpins

Belief

"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

Aspirations

"Always let your conscience be your guide."

- Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio

Morality

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

- Tom Hanks

Motivation

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- Roald Dahl, Matilda

Empowerment

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

- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Belief in Self

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

Liberation

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

Courage

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steve Furtick

Self-awareness

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

Time Management

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

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Productivity

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Choice

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

Taking Risks

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

- Pema Chodron

Reflection

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Happiness

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

Creativity

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

Awareness

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

Originality

"Someone will declare, 'I am the leader!' and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn't happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

Leadership

"If it makes you nervous, you're doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

Facing Fears

"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

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

Courage

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

- Jesse Owens

Strength

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

- Maria Edgeworth

Presence

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

Creativity

"I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

Self-confidence

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

- Kesha

Empowerment

"Do it with passion or not at all."

- Rosa Nouchette Carey

Drive

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

- Cindy Gallop

Empowerment

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

- William Osler

Contribution

"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

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

Self-awareness

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

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"Leave no stone unturned."

- Euripides

Determination

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

Self-confidence

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

- Virginia Woolf

Self-awareness

"Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

Contentment

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

- Margaret Thatcher

Empowerment

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

- Aristotle

Motivation

"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

"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

Wisdom

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

- Dorothy West

Learning

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

- Margaret Atwood

Self-awareness

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

Courage

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

Philosophy

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

Philosophy

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

- Anne Lamott

Joy

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

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom

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

- A. A. Milne

Contentment

"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"

- Kate Summers

Happiness

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

Awareness

"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

Awareness

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

- Colin R. Davis

Success

"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

"People's passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

Integrity

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

- Dita Von Teese

Strength

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Happiness

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

Leadership

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

Facing Fears

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn't hustle."

Hard Work

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

Future

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Awareness

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

Empowerment

"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."

Change

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

Self-confidence

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

Self-awareness

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

Happiness

"This too shall pass"

Adversity

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

Reflection