Inspire Your Inbox: 50 Motivational Quotes for Email Signatures

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Albert Einstein

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

- George Sand

"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."

- Ernest Holmes

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

- Steve Jobs

"A positive attitude can really make dreams come true."

- David Bailey

"Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day."

- Alice Morse Earle

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Winston Churchill

"Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions."

- Tony Robbins

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

- Epictetus

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better."

- Harvey Mackay

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

- Winston Churchill

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

- Herm Albright

"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."

- Ernest Shackleton

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

- Helen Keller

"Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."

- Zig Ziglar

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

- Omar Khayyam

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

- Vince Lombardi

"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."

- Bennett Cerf

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"You only get one life. Live it."

- Bear Grylls

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Winston Churchill

"Creative without strategy is called art. Creative with strategy is called advertising."

- Jeff I. Richards

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsleigh

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

- Michael Phelps

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

- Albert Einstein

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- John Lennon

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

"He who is brave is free."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Confucius

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Helen Keller

"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

- Seneca

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely."

- Karen Kaiser Clark

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing."

- Bear Grylls

"The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe."

- Casey Neistat

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit."

- Frank Borman

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Helen Keller

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."

- Morihei Ueshiba

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

- Socrates

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

- Bill Gates

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

- Epictetus

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

- Soren Kierkegaard

"Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes."

- Hugh Prather

"Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out."

- Jenn Proske

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."

- Brian Tracy

"Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet."

- Sarah Louise Delany

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

- Hans Selye

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

- Norman Cousins

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

- Grandma Moses

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

- Dalai Lama

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

- Epictetus

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."

- Zig Ziglar

"A child who reads will be an adult who thinks."

- Sasha Salmina

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

- Confucius

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."

- Michael LeBoeuf

"Great companies are built on great products."

- Elon Musk

"If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business."

- B. C. Forbes

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."

- Michael Jordan

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

- Tim Notke

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude."

- Ralph Marston

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

- Gary Player

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

- Napoleon Hill

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Willie Nelson

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

- Brad Henry

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."

- Chinese Proverb

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

- Socrates

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know."

- Daniel J. Boorstin

"To teach is to learn twice."

- Joseph Joubert

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see."

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."

- Robert M. Hutchins

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle."

- Charles Glassman

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

- William Arthur Ward

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."

- Princess Diana

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

- Mark Twain

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

- Aesop

"Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome."

- Amelia Barr

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

- Eric Hoffer

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."

- Henry James

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change."

- Bob Kerrey

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."

- Margaret Mead

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Pablo Picasso

"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."

- Peggy O’Mara

"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded."

- Jess Lair

"If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs."

- Nicolette Sowder

"Children see magic because they look for it."

- Christopher Moore

"Do not educate children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so when they grow up, they will know the value of things, not the price."

- Victor Hugo

"The greatest gifts we can give our children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

- Maria Montessori

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."

- Neil Postman

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

- Fred Rogers

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"The soul is healed by being with children."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"We cannot teach children the importance of honesty simply by being honest with them; we must also be honest about them."

- Adam Grant

"Listening to children is the most basic way to respect their rights."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"Children do not care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

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

- Confucius

"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails."

- Elizabeth Edwards

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

- Winston Churchill

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up."

- Mary Holloway

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

- William James

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- William Butler Yeats

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Zig Ziglar

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"Becoming is better than being."

- Carol Dweck

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

- Albert Einstein

"The only thing that is absolutely certain is that there is always room for improvement."

- Carol S. Dweck

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

- Joshua J. Marine

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

"Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

- Leo Buscaglia

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"The mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another."

- Alfred Adler

"We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know."

- Carl Rogers

"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

- Steve Maraboli

"The highest form of knowledge is empathy."

- Bill Bullard

"I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it."

- Maya Angelou

"Empathy is the medicine the world needs."

- Judith Orloff

"Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"The greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."

- Meryl Streep

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it."

- Sharon Salzberg

"Wherever you are, be all there."

- Jim Elliot

"Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance."

- Amit Ray

"Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Breathe and let be."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."

- Desmond Tutu

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Mark Cuban

"Once you choose hope, anything’s possible."

- Christopher Reeve

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

"Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud."

- Bono

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."

- William James

"Relationships are the flavor of life."

- Pawan Mishra

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

- Hubert H. Humphrey

"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

- Helen Keller

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

- Helen Keller

"Find the people who will make you better."

- Michelle Obama

"Taking care of yourself doesn't mean me first, it means me too."

- L.R. Knost

"Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel."

- Eleanor Brownn

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation."

- Audre Lorde

"You owe yourself the love that you so freely give to other people."

- Alexandra Elle

"Self-care is how you take your power back."

- Lalah Delia

"It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary."

- Mandy Hale

"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment."

- Stephen Covey

"Self-care is not a waste of time; self-care makes your use of time more sustainable."

- Jackie Viramontez

"Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance."

- Verna Myers

"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together."

- Jacqueline Woodson

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together."

- Malcolm Forbes

"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."

- Stephen Covey

"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color."

- Maya Angelou

"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."

- John F. Kennedy

"We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion."

- Max de Pree

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

"I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself."

- Albert Einstein

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

- Mark Van Doren

"Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

- John Steinbeck

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

- John Dewey

"Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow."

- Anthony Robbins

"You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy."

- Arthur Ashe

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something."

- Seth Godin

"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."

- John Wooden

"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

"It’s better to give than to receive. Especially advice."

- Mark Twain

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."

- Salvador Dali

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

"If speaking kindly to plants helps them grow, imagine what speaking kindly to humans can do."

- Unknown

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind."

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

"Mistakes are proof that you are trying."

"The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people."