101 Good Inspirational Short Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Strength

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

- Victor Hugo

"I am not afraid. I was born to do this."

- Joan of Arc

"You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Ask not what the world needs; ask what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

- Louis L'Amour

"There is one grand lie: that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe."

- Wayne Dyer

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You,' that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Ian Maclaren

"Don't allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not."

- Paulo Coelho

"You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you."

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."

- Charles Kingsley

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

- Winston Churchill

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"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

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

- Confucius

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

- Confucius

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Walt Whitman

"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."

- Christopher Reeve

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

- Arthur Ashe

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

- Napoleon Hill

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Vince Lombardi

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Don't count the days. Make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Sam Levenson

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

- Jack London

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

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

- Anais Nin

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."

- Armand Hammer

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure."

- Joseph Campbell

"As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

- Albert Einstein

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- Christopher Columbus

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

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

- William James

"Opportunities don't happen. You create them."

- Chris Grosser

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

- John D. Rockefeller

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Dorothea Brande

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- Will Rogers

"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

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

- Walt Disney

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Albert Einstein

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory."

- Les Brown

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

- Gandhi

"The Pearl Principle – no inner irritation, no pearl."

- Lama Surya Das

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"Success is not in what you have, but who you are."

- Bo Bennett

"The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph."

- George Washington

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

- Christopher Reeve

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."

- Vince Lombardi

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."

- John F. Kennedy

"Hope is a waking dream."

- Aristotle

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see."

- Confucius

"God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. You were never not coming here."

- Sufi poem

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Robert Jordan

"Whatever is… is best."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle."