Inspiring Anime Quotes to Ignite Your Spirit

"A lesson without pain is meaningless. That’s because no one can gain without sacrificing something. But by enduring that pain and overcoming it, he shall obtain a powerful, unmatched heart."

- Edward Elric

"Who decides limits? And based on what? You said you worked hard? Well, maybe you need to work a little harder. Is that really the limit of your strength? Could you of tomorrow beat you today? Instead of giving in, move forward."

- Saitama

"If you don’t like your destiny, don’t accept it. Instead, have the courage to change it the way you want it to be."

- Naruto Uzumaki

"Being weak is nothing to be ashamed of… Staying weak is!!!"

- Fuegoleon Vermillion

"Life is not a game of luck. If you wanna win, work hard."

- Sora

"Mistakes are not shackles that halt one from stepping forward. Rather, they are that which sustain and grow one’s heart."

- Mavis Vermillion

"Fear is not evil. It tells you what your weakness is. And once you know your weakness, you can become stronger as well as kinder."

- Gildarts Clive

"If you don’t share someone’s pain, you can never understand them."

- Nagato

"No matter how hard or impossible it is, never lose sight of your goal."

- Monkey D. Luffy

"Sometimes I do feel like I’m a failure. Like there’s no hope for me. But even so, I’m not gonna give up. Ever!"

- Izuku Midoriya

"If you really want to be strong… Stop caring about what your surrounding thinks of you!"

- Saitama

"Do not think about other things, there is only one thing you can do. So master that one thing. Do not forget. What you must imagine is always that you, yourself, are the strongest. You do not need outside enemies. For you, the one you have to fight is none other than your own image."

- Archer

"The moment you think of giving up, think of the reason why you held on so long."

- Natsu Dragneel

"You should never give up on life, no matter how you feel. No matter how badly you want to give up."

- Canaan

"No single thing is perfect by itself. That’s why we’re born to attract other things to make up for what we lack. I think we start walking in the right direction only after we start getting our counterparts besides us."

- Itachi Uchiha

"What is right? What is wrong? In this mixed up world, deciding what is right and wrong is not easy. You can’t just go by somebody else’s rules. If you let yourself be controlled like that, you’ll just become a puppet that can’t make decisions on its own. You have to live by your rules."

- Gintoki Sakata

"I too will obtain everything that I desire. Not because someone asked me to do it, but because I know in my heart that I have something worth fighting for."

- Julis Alexia van Riessfeld

"Even if we forget the faces of our friends, We will never forget the bonds that were carved into our souls."

- Otonashi Yuzuru

"The circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant, but it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."

- Takeshi Shudo

"To know sorrow is not terrifying. What is terrifying is to know you can't go back to the happiness you could have."

- Matsumoto Rangiku

"I want you to be happy. I want you to laugh a lot. I don’t know what exactly I’ll be able to do for you, but I’ll always be by your side."

- Kagome

"I don’t want to conquer anything. I just think that the guy with the most freedom in this ocean is the Pirate King!"

- Monkey D. Luffy

"The world isn’t perfect. But it’s there for us, doing the best it can….that’s what makes it so damn beautiful."

- Roy Mustang

"The ticket to the future is always open."

- Vash the Stampede

"Knowing what it feels to be in pain, is exactly why we try to be kind to others."

- Jiraiya

"I am the hope of the universe. I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace. I am the protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am the truth. Ally to good! Nightmare to you!"

- Ymir

"A place where someone still thinks about you is a place you can call home."

- Jiraiya

"We don’t have to know what tomorrow holds! That’s why we can live for everything we’re worth today!"

- Natsu Dragneel

"People’s lives don’t end when they die, it ends when they lose faith."

- Itachi Uchiha

"I too will obtain everything that I desire. Not because someone asked me to do it, but because I know in my heart that I have something worth fighting for."

- Julis Alexia van Riessfeld

"If you don’t take risks, you can’t create a future!"

- Monkey D. Luffy

"There’s no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again!"

- Shintarō Midorima

"You can die anytime, but living takes true courage."

- Kenshin Himura

"You can’t sit around envying other people’s worlds. You have to go out and change your own."

- Shinichi Chiaki

"When you give up, that’s when the game ends."

- Mitsuyoshi Anzai

"If you win, you live. If you lose, you die. If you don’t fight, you can’t win."

- Eren Yaeger

"Protecting someone means giving them a place to belong. Giving them a place where they can be happy."

- Princess Lenessia

"When you lose sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart."

- Allen Walker

"A dropout will beat a genius through hard work."

- Rock Lee

"Not giving up on yourself is what’s truly important. That way you don’t end up pathetic."

- Reiko Mikami

"Whatever you lose, you’ll find it again. But what you throw away you’ll never get back."

- Himura Kenshin

"Hurt me with the truth. But never comfort me with a lie."

- Erza Scarlet

"Reject common sense to make the impossible possible."

- Simon

"Don’t beg for things. Do it yourself, or else you won’t get anything."

- Renton Thurston

"Power comes in response to a need, not a desire. You have to create that need."

- Goku

"How can you move forward if you keep regretting the past?"

- Edward Elric

"Do you always want to live hiding behind the mask you put up for the sake of others? You’re you, and there’s nothing wrong with that."

- Ymir

"Don’t live your life making up excuses. The one making your choices is yourself!"

- Mugen

"I hate perfection. To be perfect is to be unable to improve any further."

- Kurotsuchi Mayuri

"It’s just pathetic to give up on something before you even give it a shot."

- Reiko Mikami

"Giving up kills people. When people reject giving up… they finally win the right to transcend humanity."

- Alucard

"If your life can change once, your life can change again."

- Sanae Furukawa

"I refuse to let my fear control me anymore."

- Maka Albarn

"Anything can happen. No one ever thinks it will until it does. What will happen, happens. That’s how the world is. The most important thing is to not let the tragedy defeat you. To believe that you can get through it."

- Kyousuke Natsume

"If you believe in tomorrow and put yourself out there, you can naturally obtain your strength. That’s how you will be able to smile and live strong."

- Makarov Dreyar

"You need to accept the fact that you’re not the best and have all the will to strive to be better than anyone you face."

- Roronoa Zoro

"Thinking you’re no-good and worthless is the worst thing you can do."

- Nobito

"Hatred and Sorrow are power. They are yours to control. All you have to do is to turn them into strength and use that strength to move forward."

- Sebastian Michaelis

"A person grows up when he’s able to overcome hardships. Protection is important, but there are some things that a person must learn on his own."

- Jiraiya

"Knowing you’re different is only the beginning. If you accept these differences you’ll be able to get past them and grow even closer."

- Miss Kobayashi

"When you hit the point of no return, that’s the moment it truly becomes a journey. If you can still turn back, it’s not really a journey."

- Hinata Miyake

"All we can do is live until the day we die. Control what we can…and fly free."

- Deneil Young

"Whatever you do, enjoy it to the fullest. That is the secret of life."

- Rider

"There are no regrets. If one can be proud of one’s life, one should not wish for another chance."

- Saber

"Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what’s happened and continue living."

- Erza Scarlet

"Alone, you feel nothing but insecurity; that’s why we form guilds, that’s why we have friends. We walk together in order to live a strong life."

- Makarov Dreyar

"If you begin to regret, you’ll dull your future decisions and let others make your choices for you. All that’s left for you then is to die. Nobody can foretell the outcome. Each decision you make holds meaning only by affecting your next decision."

- Erwin Smith

"Don’t be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end."

- Clare

"It’s not always possible to do what we want to do, but it’s important to believe in something before you actually do it."

- Might Guy

"Life is like a tube of toothpaste. When you’ve used all the toothpaste down to the last squeeze, that’s when you’ve really lived. Live with all your might, and struggle as long as you have life."

- Mion Sonozaki

"People become stronger because they have memories they can’t forget."

- Tsunade

"If you wanna make people dream, you’ve gotta start by believing in that dream yourself!"

- Seiya Kanie

"Forgetting is like a wound. The wound may heal, but it has already left a scar."

- Monkey D. Luffy

"Tears are how our heart speaks when your lips cannot describe how much we’ve been hurt."

- Jellal Fernandes

"The only home that a man should ever need is within his heart."

- Lavi Bookman

"If you keep on hiding your true feelings, who is going to be happy? If you are sad, you should say it out loud!"

- Haruhi Fujioka

"Sometimes, people are just mean. Don’t fight mean with mean. Hold your head high."

- Hinata Miyake

"The best way to remove your lies is to make them come true."

- Suzaku Kururugi

"I want… to change things. I want to believe that anything can be changed. The moment I met you, a new world opened up for me. You see, after wandering in the darkness for so long, a light brought me happiness. It’s all thanks to you."

- Chrono

"It’s the people close to your heart that can give you the most piercing wound. Love is a double-edged sword, it can heal the wound faster or it can sink the blade even deeper."

- Himura Kenshin

"Don’t be upset because of what you can’t do. Do what you do best, live as carefree and optimistically as you can, because some people aren’t able to do that."

- Keima Katsuragi

"A teacher doesn’t give up on her students just because things get tough."

- Harumi Kiyama

"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

"Every journey begins with a single step. We just have to have patience."

- Milly Thompson

"Hard work betrays none, but dreams betray many."

- Hachiman Hikigaya

"To act is not necessarily compassion. True compassion sometimes comes from inaction."

- Hinata Miyake

"Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and stops. There are ends we don’t desire, but they’re inevitable, we have to face them. It’s what being human is all about."

- Jet Black

"We are all like fireworks: we climb, we shine and always go our separate ways and become further apart. But even when that time comes, let’s not disappear like a firework and continue to shine forever."

- Hitsugaya Toshiro

"Being lonely is more painful than getting hurt."

- Monkey D. Luffy

"Life comes at a cost. Wouldn’t it be arrogant to die before you’ve repaid that debt?"

- Yuuji Kazami

"You can’t win a game by doing nothing. And if someone else wins it for you then you haven’t accomplished anything. Life is the same way."

- Junichirou Kagami

"You can’t always hold on to the things that are important. By letting them go we gain something else."

- Kunio Yaobi

"The past is the past. We cannot indulge ourselves in memories and destroy the present."

- Murata Ken

"An excellent leader must be passionate because it’s their duty to keep everyone moving forward."

- Nico Yazawa

"Fools who don’t respect the past are likely to repeat it."

- Nico Robin

"What you can’t accomplish alone, becomes doable when you’re with someone else."

- Taichi Yaegashi

"Just like games, no matter how well you have things lined up in your life, there’s always something to keep you on your toes."

- Junichirou Kagami

"If nobody cares to accept you and wants you in this world, accept yourself and you will see that you don’t need them and their selfish ideas."

- Alibaba Saluja

"I’ll leave tomorrow’s problems to tomorrow’s me."

- Saitama

"Sometimes it’s necessary to do unnecessary things."

- Kanade Jinguuji

"It doesn’t do any good to pretend you can’t see what’s going on."

- Yuuya Mochizuki

"People with talent often have the wrong impression that things will go as they think."

- Karma Akabane

"Vision is not what your eyes see, but an image that your brain comprehends."

- Touko Aozaki

"Life and death are like light and shadow. They’re both always there. But people don’t like thinking about death, so subconsciously, they always look away from it."

- Yato

"It’s more important to master the cards you’re holding than to complain about the ones your opponent was dealt."

- Grimsley

"Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care."

- Hachiman Hikigaya

"If you can’t do something, then don’t. Focus on what you can."

- Shiroe

"If you only face forward, there is something you will miss seeing."

- Vash the Stampede

"Why should I apologize for being a monster? Has anyone ever apologized for turning me into one?"

- Juuzou Suzuya

"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."

- Archer

"If you just submit yourself to fate, then that’s the end of it."

- Keiichi Maebara

"We can’t waste time worrying about the what if’s."

- Ichigo Kurosaki

"Do exactly as you like. That is the true meaning of pleasure. Pleasure leads to joy and joy leads to happiness."

- Gilgamesh

"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."

- Paine

"In our society, letting others find out that you’re a nice person is a very risky move. It’s extremely likely that someone would take advantage of that."

- Hitagi Senjougahara

"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! Those are the facts of this world! And you will all surrender to them, you pigs in human clothing!"

- Satsuki Kiryuuin

"Simplicity is the easiest path to true beauty."

- Seishuu Handa