110 Good and Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Your Best Self

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Amanda Gorman

"Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions."

- 14th Dalai Lama

"One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals."

- Michelle Obama

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Walt Disney

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Walt Whitman

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

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

- Jane Goodall

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

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

- Mark Twain

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Albert Einstein

"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Christopher Robin

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

- Albert Einstein

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

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

- George Eliot

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

- Aristotle

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Rob Siltanen

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Willie Nelson

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Viola Davis

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you."

- Lupita Nyong'o

"Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen."

- Deep Roy

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

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

- Ronald Reagan

"It isn't where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- John Dewey

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

- Warren Buffett

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

"When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Dreams don't have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you'll reach your goal."

- Naomi Osaka

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Winston Churchill

"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."

- Cicely Tyson

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

"You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box."

- Meghan Markle

"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"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 nothing impossible to they who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."

- Elaine Welteroth

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

- Mother Theresa

"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."

- Cornel West

"When we're growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Alice

"Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it."

- Lindsey Vonn

"I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make."

- Taraji P. Henson

"Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before."

- Shinzo Abe

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful."

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."

- Bill Nye

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

- Naomi Judd

"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

- John Barrymore

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

- Norman Cousins

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

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

- Charles Dickens

"Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

- Herman Melville

"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."

- Abraham Maslow

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."

- Grace Kelly

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