50 Inspirational Quotes to Brighten Your Life

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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

- Serena Williams

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Aristotle

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Anaïs Nin

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Viola Davis

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

- George Eliot

"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

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Geena Davis

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Truman Capote

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lady Gaga

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

- Mary Lou Retton

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

- Naomi Osaka

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

- Gabrielle Union

"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

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Roxane Gay

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Maggie Kuhn

"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

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Alice Walker

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Robert Frost

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Shiv Khera

"Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better."

- Harvey Mackay

"Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals."

- Amy Morin

"Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful."

- Martin E. P. Seligman

"The power of positive thinking can change your life."

- Devin McCourty

"Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive."

- Roy T. Bennett

"When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself."

- English Proverb

"If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles."

- Widad Akrawi

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

- Ray Kroc

"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results."

- Wade Boggs

"It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts."

- Robert H. Schuller

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Naomi Judd

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

- Dali Lama

"Just say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards."

- Tina Fey

"You can’t make a cloudy day a sunny day, but you can embrace it and decide it’s going to be a good day after all."

- Jane Lynch

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

- Amy Poehler

"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."

- Stephen King

"In your life expect some trouble. But when you worry, you make it double. But don't worry, be happy, be happy now."

- Bobby McFerrin

"You’re in the same boat with a lotta your friends. Waitin’ for the day your ship’ll come in, and the tide's gonna turn and it’s all gonna roll your way."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

"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

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Maya Angelou

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing."

- Kate Morton

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

- Zora Neale Hurston

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done."

- Bryan Stevenson

"That is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs."

- L.M. Montgomery

"These things are good things."

- Dr. Seuss

"Pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it."

- Paulo Coelho

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You cannot change what you are, only what you do."

- Philip Pullman

"Thou must gather thine own sunshine."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"It is not enough to have a good mind; the important thing is to use it well."

- René Descartes

"Walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps."

- Harvey Mackay

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Do anything, but let it produce joy."

- Walt Whitman

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

- Charles Dickens

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"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

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

"We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: We have the power to imagine better."

- J.K. Rowling

"You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."

- Brené Brown

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"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

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

"There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions–in a way that serves the world and you."

- Richard Branson

"That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

- Bruce Lee

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

- Babe Ruth

"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."

- David Feherty

"If you see someone without a smile, give 'em yours!"

- Dolly Parton

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to believe in our own ability, to be a little more ambitious? I think the world would change."

- Reese Witherspoon

"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

- Marcus Aurelius

"I've got nothing to do today but smile."

- Simon and Garfunkel

"I believe great people do things before they are ready."

- Amy Poehler

"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

"You rarely win, but sometimes you do."

- Harper Lee

"Lay plans for something big by starting with it when small."

- Lao Tzu

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."

- Henry Miller

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

"No exact recipe for today. Gather all available ingredients and whip yourself up something delicious."

- Lin Manuel Miranda

"Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink."

- Lilly Pulitzer

"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be."

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will."