268 Inspirational Quotes for Motivation in Life

"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

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It's courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King III

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Ernest Hemingway

"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

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Chinese Proverb

"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

"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

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

- Rob Siltanen

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

- Angela Davis

"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

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Sundar Pichai

"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."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want."

- Kevin Ngo

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

- George Eliot

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

- Leonard I. Sweet

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

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

- Les Brown

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Viola Davis

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Bill Bradley

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

- Babe Ruth

"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

"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

"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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."

- Stephen R. Covey

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"Hope begins in the dark. The stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

- Anne Lamott

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."

- Henry Ford

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Success is not the absence of failure, it's persistence through failure."

- Aisha Tyler

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Confucius

"For me, becoming isn't about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end."

- Michelle Obama

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Ava DuVernay

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"I hope you realise that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written."

- Juansen Dizon

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy; not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Dan Millman

"What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet."

- Anne Frank

"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction."

- Germany Kent

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Thomas Edison

"To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

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

- Confucius

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up."

- Regina Brett

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Norman Cousins

"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

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

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Deborah Day

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

- Amanda Gorman

"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

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

- Helen Keller

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

- John Dewey

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

- Bill Nye

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Yvie Oddly

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Vera Wang

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Joseph Campbell

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

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

- Lao Tzu

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Drew Barrymore

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Drew Houston

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Vincent van Gogh

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

- Bill Clinton

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

- Reba McEntire

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

- Lee Ann Womack

"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

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

- Mae West

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

- William Osler

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

- Buddha

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

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

- Dalai Lama

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."

- Langston Hughes

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way."

- Edward de Bono

"We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives."

- Maya Angelou

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good."

- Elizabeth Edwards

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

- Robert Jordan

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"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

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation."

- Brian Tracy

"Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!"

- Tim Ferriss

"Amplifying what is great within you will accelerate your life faster than fixing what you think 'limits' you."

- Brendon Burchard

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed."

- Ray Goforth

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Vidal Sassoon

"Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities."

- Robert H. Schuller

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one."

- Brad Paisley

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"If it doesn't scare you, you're probably not dreaming big enough."

- Tory Burch

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

- Bobby Unser

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

- Carol Burnett

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Dolly Parton

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

- Andre Gide

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Aristotle

"I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

"Next time, ask 'What's the worst that will happen?' Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

- William Shakespeare

"If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello."

- Paulo Coelho

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

- Steve Jobs

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will."

- W. Clement Stone

"The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do."

- Bob Proctor

"To get what we've never had, we must do what we have never done."

- Juan Casimiro

"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die tomorrow."

- James Dean

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."

- B. Olatunji

"So many fail because they don't get started."

- W. Clement Stone

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

- Mother Teresa

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Olivia Newton John

"Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic."

- Laini Taylor

"If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."

- David Allen

"For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded."

- Jack Canfield

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

- Florence Nightingale

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Stephen McCranie

"The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be."

- Loesje

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"If you don't have any shadows, you're not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

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

- Margaret Fuller

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

- Douglas Adams

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

- William Hazlitt

"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else."

- Stephen Hawking

"Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time."

- Vivek Naik

"Create with the heart; build with the mind."

- Criss Jami

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."

- Bo Bennett

"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it."

- Salvador Dali

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."

- Mister Rogers

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

- Jodi Picoult

"So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong, and you'll finally see the truth, that a hero lies in you."

- Mariah Carey

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."

- Friedrich Schiller

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

- William Shakespeare

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

- Richard Evans

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

- Napoleon Hill

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"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

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Berry

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."

- Michelangelo

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

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

- Robert Frost

"You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Mandy Hale

"A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone."

- Rick Riordan

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

- Mark Twain

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

- Margaret Mead

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

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

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

"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better."

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."

"I never dreamed about success, I worked for it."

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

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

"Positive action combined with positive thinking results in success."

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

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Do today what others won't and achieve tomorrow what others can't."

"Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will."

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."

"Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration."

"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."