224 Quotes of Inspiration and Encouragement to Transform Your Mindset

"If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King III

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up."

- Regina Brett

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

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

- Nelson Mandela

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- George Eliot

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

"To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love."

- Leo Buscaglia

"It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."

- Seneca

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

- G.T. Shedd

"You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both."

- Brené Brown

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

- Nelson Mandela

"Courage does not always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Choose the great adventure of being brave and afraid at the exact same time"

- Brené Brown

"The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

- Jim Ryun

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

- Jim Watkins

"If you can't fly, then run; if you can't run then walk; if you can't walk, then crawl; but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King III

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Francis of Assisi

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Viola Davis

"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

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

- Winston Churchill

"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

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

- Sylvester Stallone

"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

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

- Anne Frank

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Robert Schuller

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Aristotle

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

- Maya Angelou

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will."

- W. Clement Stone

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time."

- Thomas Edison

"To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

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

- Confucius

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

- Napoleon Hill

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Warren Buffett

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Mark Twain

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Frederick Douglass

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Rob Siltanen

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

- Jane Goodall

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- E.E. Cummings

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want."

- Kevin Ngo

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

"Don't give into your fears, if you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."

- Paulo Coelho

"We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

- Marianne Williamson

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing"

- Helen Keller

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

- Jim Rohn

"Don't go through life, grow through life."

- Eric Butterworth

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

- Winston Churchill

"Don't wait for the right opportunity. Create it."

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Carol Burnett

"Oh what we could be if we stopped carrying the remains of who we were."

- Tyler Knott Gregson

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

- Jim Rohn

"Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind."

- Dodinsky

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."

- Helen Keller

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

- William James

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Michael Altshuler

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

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

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

- Dr. Mae Jemison

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Helen Keller

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Alexander the Great

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Shinzo Abe

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

- Cicely Tyson

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

- William James

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Willie Nelson

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

- Deep Roy

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

- Mary Lou Retton

"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

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

- Olivia Newton John

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

- Christopher Robin

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

- 14th Dalai Lama

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

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Hafez

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

- Estée Lauder

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- Demi Lovato

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

- Steve Jobs

"The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do."

- Bob Proctor

"To get what we've never had, we must do what we have never done."

- Juan Casimiro

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

- Richard Evans

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."

- B. Olatunji

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"So many fail because they don't get started."

- W. Clement Stone

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

- Mother Teresa

"It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement."

- Abraham Maslow

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

- Norman Cousins

"When we're growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."

- Bill Nye

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else."

- Sara Blakely

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

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

- Mikhail Gorbachev

"I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine."

- Andre Leon Talley

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

"What might happen if you chose a softer view of yourself?"

- Kelly Rae Roberts

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, so do it."

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Loretta Lynn

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

- Herman Melville

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- John Barrymore

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

- Mother Theresa

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

- Truman Capote

"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

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

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Queen Elizabeth II

"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

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

- Ella Fitzgerald

"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

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Nicole Kidman

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

- Lindsey Vonn

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Naomi Judd

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Dr. Seuss

"There is no greater harm than that of time wasted."

- Michelangelo

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

- William Shakespeare

"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die tomorrow."

- James Dean

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

- Napoleon Hill

"The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be."

- Loesje

"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."

- Friedrich Schiller

"I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft."

- Cornel West

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"You are an example. Whether you are a good example or not is up to you."

- Steve Ferrante

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

- H.G. Wells

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

- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

- Alice

"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

"The only cure for grief is action."

- George Henry Lewes

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Anne Heche

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

- Amy Poehler

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

- Grace Kelly

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

- James Caan

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

- Lily Tomlin

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

- Winston Churchill

"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough."

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