Inspiring Google Quotes to Ignite Your Motivation

Discover a powerful collection of inspirational quotes from renowned figures that will uplift your spirit and motivate you to chase your dreams. From the wisdom of Martin Luther King Jr. to the insights of Maya Angelou, these quotes serve as reminders that greatness often comes from small actions and unwavering belief. Whether you're facing challenges or seeking encouragement, this curated list will inspire you to take action and embrace positivity in your life. Dive into these words of wisdom and let them guide you on your journey to success and happiness. Remember, every great achievement starts with the decision to try!

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Learning from Mistakes

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

Ambition

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Contribution

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

- Muhammad Ali

Belief in Self

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- Steve Jobs

Ambition

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Belief

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

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

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

- Carol Burnett

Aspirations

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Future

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Ambition

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

- Viola Davis

Aspirations

"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

Aspirations

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

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

- Albert Einstein

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Anne Frank

Hope

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

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

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

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Courage

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

- The Dalai Lama

Happiness

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

Happiness

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

- Jim Rohn

Happiness

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

- Mother Theresa

Happiness

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

- Estée Lauder

Success

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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

- Booker T. Washington

Compassion

"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

Integrity

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Independence

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

- George Eliot

New Beginnings

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

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

- Amanda Gorman

Courage

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

- Nelson Mandela

Education

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

- Maya Angelou

Success

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

- Viktor Frankl

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- Og Mandino

Hard Work

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

- Marilyn Monroe

Happiness

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

- Paulo Coelho

Personal Growth

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

- Charles Kettering

Belief

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Aspirations

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

- Henry Ford

Belief

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

- Bob Marley

Happiness

"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

Taking Risks

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

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

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

- Leonard I. Sweet

Vision

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

- Alice Walker

Empowerment

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

Generosity

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

- Lao Tzu

Transformation

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

- Les Brown

Empowerment

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

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

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

- Drew Barrymore

Growth

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

- Jon Bon Jovi

Success

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

Success

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

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

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

- Paulo Coelho

Success

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

- Drew Houston

Success

"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

Taking Risks

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Courage

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

- Nikki Giovanni

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Jim Rohn

Taking Risks

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

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

- Seth Godin

Ambition

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

- Wayne Dyer

Inspiration

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

- Albert Einstein

Insight

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

Learning

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Reflection

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

- Wayne Gretzky

Taking Risks

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

- Napoleon Hill

Motivation

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failures are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

Success

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

- Malcolm X

Success

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Reflection

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

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

Perseverance

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

Aspirations

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

- Bill Bradley

Success

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

New Beginnings

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

- John Barrymore

Happiness

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief in Self

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

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

- Earl Nightingale

Belief in Self

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

- Mandy Hale

Mindfulness

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

Teamwork

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

Success

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

- Aristotle

Hope

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

- John D. Rockefeller

Change

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

- Herman Melville

Creativity

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

- Helen Keller

Education

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

- Helen Keller

Ambition

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

- Alexander the Great

Motivation

"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

Success

"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

Success

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

Success

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

- Ronald Reagan

Compassion

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

Compassion

"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

Compassion

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

- Albert Einstein

Balance

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

Change

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

- Robert Schuller

Resilience

"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

Independence

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

- Zig Ziglar

Goals

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

- Mandy Hale

Mindfulness

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

- Lindsey Vonn

Change

"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

Change

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

- Demi Lovato

Hope

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

- Henry Ford

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- E.E. Cummings

Happiness

"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

Hard Work

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

- Dr. Seuss

Reflection

"and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

Inspiration

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

Learning

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

- William James

Contribution

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

- Will Rogers

Reflection

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

- Zendaya

Positivity

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

- Duke Ellington

Motivation

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

Contentment

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

Overcoming Obstacles

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

Change

"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

Transformation

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

Reflection

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

- Mae Jemison

Ambition

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

- Marie Curie

Ambition

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

- Helen Keller

Courage

"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

Empowerment

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

- Robert Brault

Contentment

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

Aspirations

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

- Hafez

Gratitude

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

Achievement

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

Courage

"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

Adversity

"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

Courage

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

- Shinzo Abe

Resilience

"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

Inspiration

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

- William James

Mindfulness

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

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

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

- Willie Nelson

Positivity

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

- Mary Lou Retton

Positivity

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

- Olivia Newton John

Facing Fears

"When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear."

- Elaine Welteroth

Facing Fears

"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

Ambition

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

- John Barrymore

Happiness

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Creativity

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

- Max Levchin

Self-awareness

"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

Joy

"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

Success

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

- Margaret Mead

Self-awareness

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

Personal Growth

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

- Charles Dickens

Change

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

- Nicole Kidman

Change

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

- Danny Boyle

Hope

"It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then."

- Lewis Caroll

Change

"For one to have complete satisfaction from flowers, you must have time to spend with them."

- Grace Kelly

Contentment

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

- Cicely Tyson

Resilience

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

- Naomi Judd

Reflection

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

- Nicole Kidman

Courage

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

- Deep Roy

Positivity

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

- Truman Capote

Failure

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

- Charles Dickens

Courage

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

- Amy Poehler

Balance

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

- Anne Heche

Love

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

- Mark Cuban

Positivity

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

- Michael Altshuler

Time Management

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

- Lily Tomlin

Self-awareness

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

Generosity

"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

Positivity

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."

- Mikhail Gorbachev

Personal Growth

"In the long run, you make your own luck — good, bad, or indifferent."

- Loretta Lynn

Success

"My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'"

- James Caan

Mindfulness

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