100+ Inspirational Quotes for Adolescents: Empower, Motivate, and Uplift

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- E.E. Cummings

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You don't need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You can do anything you set your mind to."

- Eminem

"Do not judge me by my success. Judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Robert Byrne

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- George Eliot

"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

- Taylor Swift

"If not us, then who? If not now, then when?"

- John Lewis

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Confucius

"Change takes courage."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Walt Disney

"Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table."

- Barack Obama

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down."

- Buddha

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made."

- Michelle Obama

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision."

- Helen Keller

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

- Lao Tzu

"Don't ever doubt yourself or waste a second of your life. It's too short and you're too special."

- Ariana Grande

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is head down and focus on the job."

- Chris Pine

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

- Alice Walker

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."

- Frida Kahlo

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us."

- Virginia Satir

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

- Samuel Johnson

"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."

- Walt Disney

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind."

- Joyce Meyer

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

- Steve Jobs

"Mental health is not a destination but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going."

- Noam Shpancer

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

- Aesop

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

- Mark Twain

"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

- Henry Ford

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"You can’t master your future if you’re still a slave to your past."

- Rihanna

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."

- Anne Frank

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- John Wayne

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

- Vivian Greene

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."

- Maya Angelou

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help you create the fact."

- William James

"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"I’m continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing."

- Ashton Kutcher

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

- Earl Nightingale

"Make each day your masterpiece."

- John Wooden

"Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

- George Bernard Shaw

"You can never be the best. The only thing you can be the best at is developing yourself."

- Natalie Portman

"To find yourself, think for yourself."

- Socrates

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got."

- Jim Rohn

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you don’t fall, how are you going to know what getting up is like?"

- Stephen Curry

"The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself."

- Meryl Streep

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

- Rosa Parks

"Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask."

- Kate Winslet

"It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Walt Whitman

"If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be."

- Maya Angelou

"Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely."

- Selena Gomez

"In the long run, you make your own luck — good, bad, or indifferent."

- Loretta Lynn

"Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person."

- Snoop Dogg

"You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice."

- Shakira

"Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."

- Bell Hooks

"Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life."

- Bob Marley

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

- Drew Barrymore

"Forever is composed of nows."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Charles Dickens

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"No pressure, no diamonds."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity."

- Will Smith

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"Never burn bridges. Today’s junior jerk, tomorrow’s senior partner."

- Sigourney Weaver

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."

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

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

"We grow through what we go through."

- Anonymous

"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change."