133 Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Motivation and Transform Your Life

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

- Nelson Mandela

"True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don't need to regularly escape from."

- Brianna Wiest

"If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit."

- Banksy

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

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

- Mark Twain

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."

- Karen Lamb

"Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day."

- Abraham Maslow

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- George Lorimer

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

- Amelia Earhart

"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

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Stephen R. Covey

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Tony Robbins

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Dalai Lama

"Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation."

- Viktor Frankl

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle."

- Sanya Richards-Ross

"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."

- James Clear

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."

- Laozi

"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

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Vince Lombardi

"You really have to love yourself first to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

"I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it."

- Estée Lauder

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Albert Camus

"Going in one more round when you don't think you can. That's what makes all the difference in your life."

- Rocky Balboa

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

- Vince Lombardi

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Confucius

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Chris Grosser

"Always be a first version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."

- Judy Garland

"Don't dream of winning, train for it!"

- Mo Farah

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

- Roseanne Barr

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

- Albert Einstein

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Les Brown

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

- Norman Cousins

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

- Martin Luther King III

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

- Walt Disney

"Meaning is about making a difference, not having an audience."

- Adam Grant

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure."

- Paulo Coelho

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

- Warren Buffett

"Self-discipline is doing what's right instead of doing what you feel like doing. That's the meaning of self-disciple."

- Eliud Kipchoge

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business."

- Michael J. Fox

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

- Herman Melville

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

- W. P. Kinsella

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Og Mandino

"Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Gary Vaynerchuk

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

- John Wooden

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

"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

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

- Walt Disney

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

"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

"My anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it."

- Hugh Prather

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

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

- Dalai Lama

"We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training."

- Archilochus

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

- Teller

"One learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."

- Children of Dune

"I know people that believe in ghosts but don't believe in themselves."

- Mitch Hedberg

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

- John Lubbock

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."

- Tom Peters

"Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are."

- Gretel Ehrlich

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."

- Carl Sagan

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

- Mencius

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

- Margaret Thatcher

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

- Margaret Mead

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."

- William Faulkner

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

- Erasmus

"Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don't want to impress people that they don't like."

- Will Rogers Jr.

"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

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

- Muhammad Ali

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

- René Descartes

"Slow is smooth and smooth is fast."

- Navy SEALs

"Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not."

- Anna Neagle

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most people dread it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were."

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

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