The Most Inspiring Quotes to Ignite Your Passion

"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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

"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

"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

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"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

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

- Nelson Mandela

"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

"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

"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

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

"When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Dale Carnegie

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

- Calvin Coolidge

"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."

- Mister Rogers

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

- John Wooden

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

- Estée Lauder

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

- Steve Jobs

"Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Paulo Coelho

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

- Tony Robbins

"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. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

- Cindy Gallop

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"Belief creates the actual fact."

- William James

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

- Anne Frank

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

"I care about decency and humanity and kindness. Kindness today is an act of rebellion."

- Pink

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

- Joseph Campbell

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied."

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"Nobody built like you, you design yourself."

- Jay-Z

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures."

- Joelle Speranza

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

- Albert Einstein

"Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you."

- Beyoncé

"Love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one!"

- Dolly Parton

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action."

- Dr. Henry Link

"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. And if that takes a few years, then that's great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that's part of the process."

- Naomi Osaka

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender."

- Mariah Carey

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa

"I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential."

- Nicki Minaj

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Muhammad Ali

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Walt Disney

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking."

- Steve Jobs

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Mother Teresa

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

- FDR

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Helen Keller

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

- ANNE FRANK

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Thomas Edison

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Bob Marley

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking."

- Steve Jobs

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings."

- Ann Landers

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

- Farrah Gray

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

- Rosa Parks

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

- Beverly Sills

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Steve Jobs

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Confucius

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at."

- Jesse Owens

"It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."

- Mae Jemison

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Zig Ziglar

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Aristotle

"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance."

- Sir Claus Moser

"We are not our best intentions. We are what we do."

- Amy Dickinson

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

- Dolly Parton

"I've noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I'm grateful in the end."

- Colleen Hoover

"We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can’t put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?"

- Jennifer Lopez

"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

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

- Anaïs Nin

"There's nothing more powerful than not giving a f—k."

- Amy Schumer

"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

"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

"The moral of my story is the sun always comes out after the storm. Being optimistic and surrounding yourself with positive loving people is for me, living life on the sunny side of the street."

- Janice Dean

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

- Benjamin Franklin

"We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We've gotta listen more and talk less. We've gotta know that this is everybody's responsibility."

- Meghan Rapinoe

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

- Thomas Edison

"Let love rule."

- Lenny Kravitz

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"I'm going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn't promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It's the only thing I can help. If I didn't have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?"

- Hayley Williams

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Life is trying things to see if they work."

- Ray Bradbury

"Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness."

- Marie Forleo

"Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment."

- Marianne Cantwell

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen—that stillness becomes a radiance."

- Morgan Freeman

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success."

- James Cameron

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

- John Lennon

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."

- Abigail Van Buren

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Teddy Roosevelt

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

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Simone Biles

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

- Truman Capote

"I'm realizing how much I've diminished my own power. I'm not doing that no more."

- Alicia Keys

"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

"The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift."

- L. A. Villafane

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

- Duke Ellington

"When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example."

- Roxane Gay

"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

"We need to take risks. We need to go broke. We need to prove them wrong, simply by not giving up."

- Awkwafina

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

- Robert Frost

"We all have problems. But it's not what happens to us, [it's] the choices we make after."

- Elizabeth Smart

"When we let fear be our master, we cannot be happy and free as a butterfly. But when we choose to trust the journey and embrace love and joy, we are free to fly."

- Annicken R. Day

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest."

- Walter Anderson

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

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

- Herman Melville

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

- Colin R. Davis

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"We have to let go of who we think we should be and embrace what is."

- Achea Redd

"Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness."

- Selena Gomez

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."

- Ingrid Bergman

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

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

- Robert Frost

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten."

- Tony Robbins

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."

- Dalai Lama

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there."

- George Harrison

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

- Sir Francis Bacon

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

- Toni Morrison

"Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more."

- Aretha Franklin

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

- Charles Dickens

"It’s not about better time management. It’s about better life management."

- Alexandra of The Productivity Zone

"You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."

- Amy Poehler

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."

- Dr. Phil

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

- Bonnie Prudden

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

- Margaret Mead

"Work hard, know your s—t, show your s—t, and then feel entitled."

- Mindy Kaling

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

- Madonna

"Don't be afraid. Because you're going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don't be afraid."

- Joan Jett

"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."

- Danny DeVito

"How wild it was, to let it be."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

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

"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

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"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could."