100 Inspirational Quotes to Brighten Your Day and Boost Positivity

Start your day with a burst of motivation and positivity through this curated collection of 100 inspirational quotes. These timeless words from renowned thinkers, leaders, and visionaries are designed to uplift your spirit and encourage a positive mindset. Whether you're facing challenges or simply seeking a daily dose of encouragement, these quotes remind us of the power of optimism, resilience, and self-belief. From the wisdom of Aristotle and Maya Angelou to the courage of Nelson Mandela and the creativity of Walt Disney, each quote offers a unique perspective to inspire and empower. Dive into this treasure trove of motivational sayings to find the perfect words that resonate with your journey. Let these quotes be your guide to embracing each day with hope, determination, and a positive outlook. Remember, a single positive thought in the morning can change your entire day!

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Viola Davis

Aspirations

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

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

Success

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

"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

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Confucius

Resilience

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Ambition

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

- Henry Ford

Failure

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

- Thomas Edison

Failure

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

Empowerment

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

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

- Bruce Lee

Time Management

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition

"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

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

- Bo Jackson

Goals

"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

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

- Wayne Dyer

Motivation

"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

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- George Eliot

New Beginnings

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

Positivity

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

- Helen Keller

Optimism

"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

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

- George Lorimer

Determination

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

Success

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Aspirations

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Belief in Self

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

"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

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

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

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

- Thomas Edison

Resilience

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

- Mary Lou Retton

Positivity

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

- George Addair

Facing Fears

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

Ambition

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

- Nelson Mandela

Courage

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

Courage

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- Bruce Lee

Time Management

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Reflection

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

- Helen Keller

Education

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

Belief in Self

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

Growth

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

- Helen Keller

Ambition

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

Success

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

Success

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

Reflection

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

Ambition

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

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

Success

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Reflection

"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

Success

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

Aspirations

"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- W.P. Kinsella

Taking Risks

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

- Babe Ruth

Courage

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

Learning from Mistakes

"Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking."

- Lee Ann Womack

Taking Risks

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Personal Growth

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

- Buddha

Presence

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

- Rose Kennedy

Contentment

"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

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

- Vivian Greene

Resilience

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

- Oscar Wilde

Self-care

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

Balance

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Integrity

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

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

- Napoleon Hill

Determination

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

Motivation

"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

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

Personal Growth

"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

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

- Steve Furtick

Self-awareness

"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

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

Personal Growth

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

- Erica Jong

Taking Risks

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

Inspiration

"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

Motivation

"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

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

- Ross Simmonds

Hard Work

"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

Motivation

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Happiness

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

- Drake

Balance

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

Creativity

"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

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

- Raymond Joseph Teller

Creativity

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

- Paul Bryant

Success

"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

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

- Mark Twain

Personal Growth

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

- Pema Chodron

Reflection

"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

"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

Adversity

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

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity

"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

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

- Ruth Gordo

Courage

"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

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Choice

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

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

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

- Dr. Seuss

New Beginnings

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

- Leymah Gbowee

Courage

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

- Childish Gambino

Taking Risks

"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

Ambition

"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

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

- E.E. Cummings

Courage

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

- Beyoncé

Belief in Self

"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

Independence

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

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

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

- Rosa Parks

Change

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

Ambition

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

Achievement

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

- Serena Williams

Courage

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

- Aristotle

Hope

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

- Anaïs Nin

Courage

"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

Inspiration

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Transformation

"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

Love

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

Empowerment

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

- Muhammad Ali

Time Management

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

- Geena Davis

Taking Risks

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

- Carol Burnett

Aspirations

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Empowerment

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

- Bruce Springsteen

Success

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

- Truman Capote

Failure

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

- Taylor Swift

Resilience

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

- Michelle Obama

Self-awareness

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

- Lady Gaga

Self-esteem

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

- Naomi Osaka

Determination

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

- Gabrielle Union

Self-care

"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

Self-awareness

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

- Duke Ellington

Motivation

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

- Roxane Gay

Leadership

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

Compassion

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

- Maggie Kuhn

Courage

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Resilience

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

- Alice Walker

Empowerment

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

- Lucille Ball

Self-care

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

- Robert Frost

Resilience

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

- Lao Tzu

Transformation

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

Taking Risks

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

"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

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

- Aristotle

Motivation

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing."

- Elbert Hubbard

Positivity

"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

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom

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

- Lao Tzu

New Beginnings

"We are what we repeatedly do."

- Aristotle

Personal Growth

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

- Buddha

Belief

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

Personal Growth

"Do it with passion or not at all."

- Rosa Nouchette Carey

Drive

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

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

- George Skolsky

Compassion

"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

"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

"Happiness is not by chance but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

Happiness

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

- Jodi Picoult

Creativity

"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

"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

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

- Willie Nelson

Positivity

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

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

Gratitude

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

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

- Naomi Judd

New Beginnings

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

- Les Brown

Motivation

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

- Joyce Meyer

Aspirations

"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

- Colin Powell

Positivity

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."

- William James

Positivity

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

Resilience

"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

"Be yourself and people will like you."

- Jeff Kinney

Belief in Self

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

- Dolly Parton

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

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

- Tony Robbins

Goals

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

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

- Mae West

Contentment

"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

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

- E.E. Cummings

Happiness

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

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

- Dolly Parton

Adaptation

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

"Shine like the whole universe is yours."

- Rumi

Joy

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

Resilience

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

- Michelle Obama

Success

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

Self-esteem

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

Empowerment

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

Empowerment

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

Strength

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Success

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

Learning from Mistakes

"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

"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

"When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone."

- Melissa McCarthy

Determination

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

Change

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Vision

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Change

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

- Vince Lombardi

Success

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

Determination

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

Success

"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

"Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results."

- Andrew Carnegie

Teamwork

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

Optimism

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

Self-esteem

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

- Stephen R. Covey

Belief in Self

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

Hard Work

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

- William James

Change

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

Motivation

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

Reflection

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

Taking Risks

"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

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

Creativity

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

Persistence

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

Empowerment

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

Creativity

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance

"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

"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

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

- Bonnie Prudden

New Beginnings

"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

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

- Charles Kettering

Future

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

- Albert Camus

Awareness

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

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

Family

"If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy."

- Mark Cuban

Positivity

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

Balance

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

- A. A. Milne

Contentment

"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

Hope

"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"

- Max Levchin

Self-awareness

"Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her."

- Yulia Tymoshenko

Empowerment

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

- Warren Buffet

Generosity

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

- Paulo Coelho

Awareness

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

- Anne Lamott

Joy

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

- Margaret Thatcher

Empowerment

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Empowerment

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

Empowerment

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

- Dita Von Teese

Self-awareness

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

- Thomas Aquinas

Taking Risks

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

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

Awareness

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

Courage

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

Balance

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

- Don Cheadle

Self-awareness

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

Happiness

"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

Self-awareness

"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

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

Happiness

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

- Robert Byrne

Philosophy

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

- Kate Summers

Happiness

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

- Oscar Wilde

Awareness

"Leave no stone unturned."

- Euripides

Determination

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

- Toni Morrison

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

"Friends are the family we choose."

- Jennifer Aniston

Relationships

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

- Mavis Staples

Motivation

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

Self-improvement

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

Success

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

- Maria Edgeworth

Presence

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

Learning

"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."

- David Hurley

Respect

"There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."

- Kurt Vonnegut

Love

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

- Coco Chanel

Originality

"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

- Danny Boyle

Hope

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

Awareness

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

- Frank Herbert

Philosophy

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

- Constance Wu

Self-awareness

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

Learning

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

Contentment

"Be a positive energy trampoline—absorb what you need and rebound more back."

- Dave Carolan

Positivity

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

- Simone Biles

Happiness

"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

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

Presence

"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Khalil Gibran

Reflection

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

Self-awareness

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

Contentment

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Empowerment

"Women must learn to play the game as men do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Empowerment

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

- Ayn Rand

Empowerment

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more"

- Lord Byron

Connection to Earth

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

Ambition

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

Happiness

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

Philosophy

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Strength

"If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun."

- APJ Abdul Kalam

Ambition

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Buddha

Happiness

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

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

Aspirations

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

Leadership

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Happiness

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

Awareness

"No matter how many people believe or don’t believe in you, you must be the ultimate believer in yourself!"

Belief in Self

"“The moth prefers the moon and detests the sun, while the butterfly loves the sun and hides from the moon. Every living creature responds to light. But depending on the amount of light you have inside, determines which lamp in the sky your heart will swoon.”"

Awareness

"Love is the only freedom in this world because it raises the soul to a sublime position that the laws and traditions of mankind cannot reach, and the laws and rulings of nature do not prevail over it."

Love

"If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining."

Motivation

"If the moon can shine so bright and beautifully even in the darkest of hours , certainly, so can YOU"

Hope

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

Change

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

Empowerment

"Dream is not that you see in sleep, dream is something that does not let you sleep."

Ambition

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

Reflection

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

Self-confidence

"For if we fall, who shall stand?"

Bravery

"Work Hard in Silence, let your success make the noise."

Hard Work

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

Happiness

"Don’t stress, do your best & forget the rest."

Self-care

"Never stop Learning as life never stops teaching."

Learning

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

Self-awareness

"You only fail when you stop trying and don’t worry about the mistakes because mistakes are the proof that you are trying."

Persistence

"Erasers are made for those who are willing to correct their mistakes."

Learning from Mistakes

"Do your best to be the best."

Motivation

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."

Generosity

"Make the rest of your life, the best of your life."

Motivation

"This too shall pass"

Adversity