Daily Dose of Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Uplifting Quotes

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

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

- Walt Disney

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Tony Robbins

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Gale Sayers

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart."

- Rebecca Solnit

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon."

- Jim Rohn

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."

- Jack Canfield

"Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change."

- Richard Branson

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Being positive is a sign of intelligence."

- Maxime Legacé

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

- Jim Rohn

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

- Rick Riordan

"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas Edison

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."

- James Oppenheim

"Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities."

- Orison Swett Marden

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."

- Joseph Joubert

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

- Auguste Rodin

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Anaïs Nin

"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

"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

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

- Viola Davis

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

- George Eliot

"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

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Simone Biles

"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

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Bonnie Prudden

"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

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

- John F. Kennedy

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

- Robert Schuller

"Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

- George Herbert

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

- FDR

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

- Florence Nightingale

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Aristotle

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

- Ralph Marston

"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

- Lao Tzu

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."

- W. Clement Stone

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"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

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."

- H.G. Wells

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

- Elon Musk

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."

- St. Jerome

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

- Aristotle

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

- Dalai Lama

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

- Epictetus

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

- Stephen Hawking

"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."

- Kyle Chandler

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

- William Blake

"The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name."

- Sylvia Browne

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."

- Ayn Rand

"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."

- Baltasar Gracian

"Either move or be moved."

- Ezra Pound

"Never complain and never explain."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"Some of the biggest achievements of your life will come from helping others achieve."