100+ Inspirational Saying Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Strength

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards."

- Bear Bryant

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

- Muhammad Ali

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Duke Ellington

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

- Nelson Mandela

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"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

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Wayne Dyer

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Bob Marley

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

- Henry Ford

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"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, Jr.

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"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

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."

- Brené Brown

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small."

- Richard Branson

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."

- Louis L’Amour

"People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it."

- Simon Sinek

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something."

- Seth Godin

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

- Farrah Gray

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

- Chris Grosser

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

- John R. Wooden

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

- Michael Jordan

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- George Eliot

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

"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

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

- Michelle Obama

"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

"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

"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination"

- Mae Jemison

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

- Alexander the Great

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

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

- Shinzo Abe

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

- Cicely Tyson

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

- William James

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Deep Roy

"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

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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

- The Dalai Lama

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Mother Theresa

"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

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

- Estée Lauder

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

- Bob Dylan

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

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

- Robert Schuller

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Mandy Hale

"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

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Maya Angelou

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

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

- Robert Frost

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

- Dolly Parton

"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

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

- Audre Lorde

"The most effective way to do it is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"Do or do not; there is no try."

- Yoda

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

- Nelson Mandela

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

- Robert Browning

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

- Walt Whitman

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

- Buddha

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

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

- Nido Qubein

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

- Martin Luther

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

- Shakespeare

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

- Og Mandino

"Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence."

- Jay Bilas

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

- Arthur Ashe

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

- Juan Casimiro

"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

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"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

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

- Regina Brett

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you."

- Gabrielle Union

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

- Herman Melville

"We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person."

- Anne Heche

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory."

- Dr. Seuss

"Marketing’s job is never done. It’s about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day."

- Beth Comstock

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

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

- Bonnie Prudden

"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

"There’s a way to do it better. Find it."

- Thomas Edison

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

- B. Olatunji

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- W. Clement Stone

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

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

- Bob Proctor

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

- Friedrich Schiller

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

- Hafez

"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere."

- Anne Lamott

"We become what we think about."

- Earl Nightingale

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

- William Shakespeare

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."

- Émile Zola

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

- Leonardo da Vinci

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

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

"Have a vision. Be demanding."

- Colin Powell

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

- Edgar Degas

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

- Mark Cuban

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

- Michelangelo

"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it."

- Chinua Achebe

"If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life."

- Marc Anthony

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

- Aristotle

"There is never a bad time to start a business — unless you want to start a mediocre one."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"The things you regret most in life are the risks you didn’t take."

- Farhan Masood

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

- Sam Levenson

"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

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

- James Dean

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine."

- André Leon Talley

"If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start."

- Simon Sinek

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Lindsey Vonn

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"Two things you are in total control of in life are your attitude and your effort."

- Billy Cox

"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."

- Audre Lorde

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Demi Lovato

"Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

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

- Abraham Maslov

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Richard Evans

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

- E.E. Cummings

"Writing is its own reward."

- Henry Miller

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

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

- Loesje

"Creativity takes courage."

- Henri Matisse

"He who is brave is free."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Character is power."

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Lily Tomlin

"The great artist is the simplifier."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Naomi Judd

"Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers'."

- Amy Poehler

"Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations."

- Dr. Mae Jemison

"Without great solitude no serious work is possible."

- Pablo Picasso

"Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow."

- Paul Laurence Dunbar

"Today it’s important to be present, be relevant and add value."

- Nick Besbeas

"Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have."

- Jonah Sachs

"Don’t be afraid to get creative and experiment with your marketing."

- Mike Volpe

"Good marketing makes the company look smart. Great marketing makes the customer feel smart."

- Joe Chernov

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"The person who gives the value first has the leverage."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

"I start where the last man left off."

- Thomas Edison

"A writer is a world trapped in a person."

- Victor Hugo

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

- Anaïs Nin

"The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing."

- Tom Fishburne

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."

- Josh Billings

"Content is King but engagement is Queen, and the lady rules the house!"

- Mari Smith

"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative."

- Elmore Leonard

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

- Saul Bellow

"I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life."

- Jean-Michel Basquiat

"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do."

- Michael Porter

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

- Paul Gauguin

"The road to success is always under construction."

- Lily Tomlin

"No is a complete sentence."

- Anne Lamott

"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

- Robert Frost

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

- Reba McEntire

"Good things, when short, are twice as good."

- Baltasar Gracián

"Next time you’re afraid to share ideas, remember someone once said in a meeting, ‘Let’s make a film with a tornado full of sharks.'"

- Jon Acuff

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

- Douglas Adams

"Pizza makes me think that anything is possible."

- Henry Rollins

"Bad decisions make good stories."

- Ellis Vidler

"Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese."

- Billie Burke

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

"There is no such thing as failure, only feedback."