100+ Positive Inspirational Encouraging Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

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

- Ellen DeGeneres

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- George Eliot

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Robert Frost

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Viktor Frankl

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

- Og Mandino

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

- Confucius

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- A.A. Milne

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

"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

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There’s only one you."

- Queen Latifah

"I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. Not at the same time."

- Brene Brown

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are."

- Stephanie LaHart

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

- Walt Disney

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Nelson Mandela

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Ayn Rand

"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

"Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Everything is within your power, and your power is within you."

- Janice Trachtman

"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."

- Criss Jami

"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."

- Paulo Coelho

"There's power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there's grace in being willing to know and hear others."

- Michelle Obama

"Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome."

- Fannie Flagg

"It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"It’s important to think of what it means to powerfully and successfully rise to challenges, and all that it requires: determination, clarity, and steering clear of victim mentality."

- Emma R. Wilson

"Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible."

- Rodolfo Costa

"Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret."

- Richelle Goodrich

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times when one only remembers to turn on the light."

- J.K. Rowling

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie

"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

"You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice."

- Kerry Washington

"Do not fear failure. Dare to fail in order to find ways to succeed."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient."

- Daniel Kahneman

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

- Olivia Newton John

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less."

- Steve Goodier

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

- Brandon Sanderson

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

"Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better."

- Melinda French Gates

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

- Helen Keller

"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."

- Les Brown

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Jim Rohn

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Will Rogers

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

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

- Confucius

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

- Wayne Dyer

"It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

- Bill Gates

"I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been given a no, only to find that a better, brighter, bigger yes was right around the corner."

- Arlan Hamilton

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Ariana Huffington

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

- Henry Ford

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Arthur Ashe

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle."

- Ross Simmonds

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

- George Addair

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

- Ayn Rand

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Drew Houston

"You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

"Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart."

- Drake

"Ideation without execution is delusion."

- Robin Sharma

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

- Vincent Van Gogh

"It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul Bryant

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"We can see through others only when we can see through ourselves."

- Bruce Lee

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice."

- Octavia Butler

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

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

- Jesse Owens

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Someone will declare, ‘I am the leader!’ and expect everyone to get in line and follow him or her to the gates of heaven or hell. My experience is that it doesn’t happen that way. Others follow you based on the quality of your actions rather than the magnitude of your declarations."

- Bill Walsh

"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use."

- Ruth Gordo

"Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short."

- Paul Graham

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You’ll never get bored when you try something new. There’s really no limit to what you can do."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Dolly Parton

"If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right."

- Childish Gambino

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life."

- Louise Hay

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence."

- Sonia Sotomayor

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

"I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger."

- Mia Hamm

"I am happy because I'm grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart."

- Rebecca Solnit

"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon."

- Jim Rohn

"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt."

- Mallika Tripathi

"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try."

- Jack Canfield

"Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change."

- Richard Branson

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

- Stephen McCranie

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."

- Jim Rohn

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- Thomas Edison

"Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities."

- Orison Swett Marden

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

- Auguste Rodin

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"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

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had."

- Angela Bassett

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

"I have stood on a mountain of no’s for one yes."

- Barbara Elaine Smith

"If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it."

- Tobias Lütke

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."

- Martha Graham

"The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen."

- Jessica Ennis

"Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there."

- Bo Jackson

"Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them."

- Mia Hamm

"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. … Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Albert Einstein

"If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse."

- Jim Rohn

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."

- Clayton M. Christensen

"Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my life was the day I realized that I no longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That’s enormously liberating and freeing, and it’s the only way to live your life and do your business"

- Cindy Gallop

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Even if I don’t reach all my goals, I’ve gone higher than I would have if I hadn’t set any."

- Danielle Fotopoulis

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

- Abraham Lincoln

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

- Stephen Covey

"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."

- Rick Riordan

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

- Simone Biles

"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."

- Joseph Joubert

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel."

- Steve Furtick

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

- Carl Sagan

"I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me."

- Jay-Z

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."

- Arianna Huffington

"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."

- Dita Von Teese

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

- Robert Frost

"I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are."

- Don Cheadle

"We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity, both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

- Arthur Ashe

"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe."

- Leymah Gbowee

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom."

- Roz Inga

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

- Coco Chanel

"Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong."

- Constance Wu

"And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."

- John Steinbeck

"Life is short, but it is wide. This too shall pass."

- Rebecca Wells

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

"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

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

- Bonnie Prudden

"If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."

- Maria Edgeworth

"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

- Raymond Joseph Teller

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."

- Oscar Wilde

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffet

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

- Pema Chodron

"Being positive is a sign of intelligence."

- Maxime Lagace

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

"Make a Friday a day to celebrate work well done that you can be proud of, knowing that you just didn’t put in time to the next paycheck."

- Byron Pulsifer

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."

- Etty Hillesum

"Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning."

- S. C. Lourie

"Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."

- Anne Lamott

"Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon."

- Ann Ruth Schabacker

"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

- A. A. Milne

"Be content to act, and leave the talking to others."

- Baltasar Gracián

"Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself."

- Jason Fried

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

- Charles Dickens

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

- Christopher McCandless

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

- Toni Morrison

"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."

- S. O’ Sade

"Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell."

- Oprah Winfrey

"When you leave work on Friday, leave work. Don’t let technology follow you throughout your weekend (answering text messages and emails). Take a break. You will be more refreshed to begin the workweek if you have had a break."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"Some of the biggest achievements of your life will come from helping others achieve."

"Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility."

"A year from now you will wish you had started today."

"Worry is a misuse of imagination."