Timeless Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Quotes and Proverbs to Uplift Your Spirit

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Michael Jordan

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Confucius

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Walt Whitman

"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

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

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

- John D. Rockefeller

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

- Henry Ford

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."

- Chinese Proverb

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"It’s not enough to learn how to ride, you must also learn how to fall."

- Mexican proverb

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

- Chinese Proverb

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Beyoncé

"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

"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

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song."

- Chinese Proverb

"Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you."

- Maori proverb

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Muhammad Ali

"If you can’t live longer, live deeper."

- Italian proverb

"This too shall pass."

- Pinterest

"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

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Lucille Ball

"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

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

- Alice Walker

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"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

"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

"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

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Audre Lorde

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Malcolm X

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Lao Tzu

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Les Brown

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Maya Angelou

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- George Eliot

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Viola Davis

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Og Mandino

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

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

- Bill Bradley

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

- Mother Teresa

"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

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Albert Einstein

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Drew Houston

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- W.P. Kinsella

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Bill Clinton

"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

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

- Lee Ann Womack

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

"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

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Buddha

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

- Dolly Parton

"The best candle is understanding."

- Welsh proverb

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

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

- Lewis Carroll

"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

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."

- Anne Frank

"If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing."

- Zimbabwe proverb

"Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom."

- Greek proverb

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

- Vivian Greene

"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

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

- Aristotle

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

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

- Leonardo DiCaprio

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

- Kesha

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Margaret Atwood

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

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Zendaya

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Mandy Hale

"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 Bailey

"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

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

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

- Nicole Kidman

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"

- Max Levchin

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

- Drew Barrymore

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

- Charles Kettering

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

- Khalil Gibran

"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

"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

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

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

- Herman Melville

"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

- Danny Boyle

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

- Reba McEntire

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."

- Francois Rabelais

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

- William Hazlitt

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

- Mae West

"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

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

- William Osler

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

- Robert Byrne

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

"There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life."

- Philip Appleman

"So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow."

- Rainbow Rowell

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

"Don’t sail out farther than you can row back."

- Danish Proverb

"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out."

- Russian Proverb

"Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never is."

- French Proverb

"A large chair does not make a king."

- Sudanese Proverb

"He who always thinks it is too soon is sure to come too late."

- German Proverb

"It takes a whole village to raise a child."

- African proverb

"Begin to weave and God will give the thread."

- German proverb

"Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one."

- Turkish proverb

"Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king."

- Ghanaian proverb

"The work praises the man."

- Irish proverb

"A mother understands what a child does not say."

- Jewish Proverb

"Cheese, wine, and friends must be old to be good."

- Cuban proverb

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Bruce Springsteen

"Love is simply creation's greatest joy."

- Hafez

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others."

- African proverb

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

- Geena Davis

"He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good."

- Jennifer Donnelly

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

- Duke Ellington

"Some men go through a forest and see no firewood."

- English proverb

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

- Gabrielle Union

"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

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

- Lady Gaga

"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

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

- Michelle Obama

"The tree with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit."

- Brazilian proverb

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

- Simone Biles

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

"Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power."

- Amit Kalantri

"A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."

- Thomas Pynchon

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately."

- Oscar Wilde

"can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected."

- Laverne Cox

"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Those who wish to sing always find a song."

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