100+ Self Inspirational Quotes About Life to Empower Your Journey

### Discover the Power of Self-Inspiration Life is a journey filled with challenges, growth, and endless possibilities. Sometimes, all we need is a spark of motivation to keep moving forward. This curated collection of over 100 self inspirational quotes about life offers just that — words of wisdom from some of the most influential thinkers, leaders, and creators. ### Why Inspirational Quotes Matter Inspirational quotes have the power to uplift our spirits, shift our perspectives, and remind us of our inner strength. Whether you're facing a tough decision, seeking encouragement, or simply want to start your day with positivity, these quotes serve as a beacon of hope and resilience. ### A Treasure Trove of Wisdom From timeless classics by Oscar Wilde and Maya Angelou to modern voices like Michelle Obama and Steve Jobs, this collection covers themes of courage, self-worth, perseverance, and love. Each quote is a reminder that you have the power to shape your own destiny and embrace your unique path. Dive in, reflect, and let these words inspire you to live your best life every day.

Wisdom from the Masters

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

- Confucius

Resilience

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

Success

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

Belief in Self

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Ambition

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

- Walt Whitman

Positivity

"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

Independence

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

- Winston Churchill

Positivity

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

- Rosa Parks

Change

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

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

- Madam C.J. Walker

Ambition

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

Achievement

"I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger."

- Serena Williams

Courage

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

- C.S. Lewis

Aspirations

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

- Aristotle

Hope

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Belief in Self

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

- Anaïs Nin

Courage

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Transformation

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

- Viola Davis

Aspirations

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

- George Eliot

New Beginnings

"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

Love

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

Empowerment

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

- Nelson Mandela

Courage

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

- Muhammad Ali

Time Management

"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."

- Geena Davis

Taking Risks

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

- Toni Morrison

Philosophy

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

- Carol Burnett

Aspirations

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Empowerment

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

- Bruce Springsteen

Success

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

- Simone Biles

Happiness

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

- Truman Capote

Failure

"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."

- Taylor Swift

Resilience

"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own."

- Michelle Obama

Self-awareness

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

- Oscar Wilde

Awareness

"You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty."

- Lady Gaga

Self-esteem

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

- Mary Lou Retton

Positivity

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

Determination

"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself."

- Gabrielle Union

Self-care

"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

Self-awareness

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

- Duke Ellington

Motivation

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

- Bonnie Prudden

New Beginnings

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

- Roxane Gay

Leadership

"There is no better compass than compassion."

- Amanda Gorman

Compassion

"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind – even if your voice shakes."

- Maggie Kuhn

Courage

"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

Self-awareness

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Resilience

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

Empowerment

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

Self-care

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

- Robert Frost

Resilience

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

- Maya Angelou

Personal Growth

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

- Ernest Hemingway

Personal Growth

"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

Courage

"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

Personal Growth

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Personal Growth

"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

Self-awareness

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

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity

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

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

Change

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

Personal Growth

"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

New Beginnings

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

Change

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

- Marilyn Monroe

Change

"Do the best you can. No one can do more than that."

- John Wooden

Hard Work

"If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don’t love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can’t give anything else but that."

- Gisele Bündchen

Happiness

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

Self-awareness

"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."

- Alan Cohen

Self-esteem

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

Self-confidence

"The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

Self-esteem

"I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?"

- Goldie Hawn

Self-awareness

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

- Coco Chanel

Self-awareness

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-awareness

"I’m all about body positivity and self-love because I believe that we can save the world if we first save ourselves."

- Lizzo

Self-esteem

"I am stepping right into where I am with no shame, and it feels good."

- Andie MacDowell

Self-confidence

"Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people, and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference."

- Jane Fonda

Self-awareness

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

- Estée Lauder

Success

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

Resilience

"It is only when we take chances that our lives improve."

- Walter Anderson

Taking Risks

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

Determination

"Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

Personal Growth

"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed."

- Bob Riley

Adversity

"One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is that one group is full of doers, while the other is full of wishers."

- Edmond Mbiaka

Motivation

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

- E.E. Cummings

Courage

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

Strength

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value."

- Albert Einstein

Success

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

Learning from Mistakes

"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction."

- George Lorimer

Determination

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

- Amelia Earhart

Determination

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

Vision

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

- Vince Lombardi

Success

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right."

- Walt Disney

Determination

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

Optimism

"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time."

- Joe Girard

Success

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing—that’s why we recommend it daily."

- Zig Ziglar

Motivation

"Opportunities don’t happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

Optimism

"Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality."

- Les Brown

Self-esteem

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

- Walt Disney

Aspirations

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

Change

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

Taking Risks

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

- Marcus Aurelius

Gratitude

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice."

- Wayne Dyer

Motivation

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

- Kurt Cobain

Self-awareness

"Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently."

- Michelle Obama

Self-confidence

"Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love."

- Alison Malee

Forgiveness

"The same light you see in others is shining within you, too."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

Self-awareness

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud, ‘I am lucky to be what I am!...’"

- Dr. Seuss

Self-esteem

"When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself."

- Paulo Coelho

Self-care

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

- Deepak Chopra

Belief in Self

"Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

Self-care

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Ambition

"Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy."

- Suzy Kassem

Self-confidence

"Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort."

- Deborah Day

Self-care

"You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else."

- Jennifer Lopez

Self-esteem

"Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

- Louise L. Hay

Self-improvement

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

- Charlotte Brontë

Self-care

"Look inward—the loving begins with you."

- Oprah Winfrey

Self-awareness

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

- Audrey Hepburn

Aspirations

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

Gratitude

"As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow."

- Charlie Chaplin

Self-improvement

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

- Oscar Wilde

Self-esteem

"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

- Les Brown

Love

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Lucille Ball

Love

"In your own life it’s important to know how spectacular you are."

- Steve Maraboli

Self-confidence

"You have to believe that your ideas, and your hope, and your being, deserve to take up space."

- Bianca Sparacino

Belief in Self

"I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I’d want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps."

- Emma Stone

Self-care

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

- Thomas Edison

Motivation

"By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better."

- Laverne Cox

Love

"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."

- Mary Dunbar

Self-esteem

"I like me. I like my story and all the bumps and bruises. That’s what makes me uniquely me."

- Michelle Obama

Self-esteem

"I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I’m sure of my love for life and that sort of thing. I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am."

- Dolly Parton

Self-confidence

"The things that make me different are the things that make me."

- Piglet

Originality

"Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow."

- Kim Guerra

Love

"One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself."

- Dwayne Johnson

Self-awareness

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

- Deborah Day

Change

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

- Rob Siltanen

Change

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

- Angela Y. Davis

Change

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

- Jane Goodall

Compassion

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

- Amanda Gorman

Change

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

Awareness

"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

Transformation

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

- Malcolm X

Education

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

- Helen Keller

Education

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

- Walt Disney

Education

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

- John Dewey

Education

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

- Cesar Chavez

Education

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

- Bill Nye

Knowledge

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

Learning

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

- Sydney J. Harris

Education

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Education

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

- Albert Einstein

Success

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

- Robin Sharma

Success

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

- Yvie Oddly

Success

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

- Warren Buffett

Contribution

"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

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Hard Work

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

- Sundar Pichai

Success

"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

Resilience

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

- Babe Ruth

Perseverance

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

- Vera Wang

Success

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

- Winston Churchill

Optimism

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

- Will Rogers

Reflection

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

Reflection

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

- Maya Angelou

Courage

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

- Erica Jong

Taking Risks

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

- Henry Ford

Failure

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

- Bill Gates

Learning from Mistakes

"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

Motivation

"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

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Henry Ford

Courage

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

- Wayne Dyer

Inner Peace

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

- Arthur Ashe

Motivation

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

- George Addair

Facing Fears

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

- Ayn Rand

Ambition

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

- Thomas Edison

Resilience

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

- Laird Hamilton

Self-awareness

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

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

- Paul Bryant

Success

"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

Mindfulness

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

- Earl Nightingale

Aspirations

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

- Mark Twain

Personal Growth

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

- Bruce Lee

Awareness

"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

Persistence

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

Resilience

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

- Ruth Gordo

Courage

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

- Dolly Parton

Change

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

- Louise Hay

Personal Growth

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

- Sonia Sotomayor

Empowerment

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

- Jennifer Lopez

Self-awareness

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

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

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

- Mia Hamm

Taking Risks

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

- Michael Jordan

Ambition

"If you love life do not waste time, for time is what life is made up of"

- Bruce Lee

Time Management

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."

- Earl Nightingale

Motivation

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

Self-esteem

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

Personal Growth

"Treat yourself like someone you love."

- Glennon Doyle

Self-care

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-awareness

"Love your family, work super hard, live your passion."

- Gary Vaynerchuk

Family

"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake."

- Confucius Kongzi

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Mark Cuban

Positivity

"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

Change

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

- Steve Jobs

Motivation

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

- Vernon Sanders Law

Learning from Mistakes

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

- Dorothy West

Learning

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

- Tony Robbins

Goals

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

- Alexander Graham Bell

Focus

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

- Jim Rohn

Time Management

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

- Paulo Coelho

Personal Growth

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

- Thomas Edison

Hard Work

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

- Tony Robbins

Goals

"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

Love

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Empowerment

"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

Empowerment

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

- Albert Einstein

Balance

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

- Napoleon Hill

Determination

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

- Jim Rohn

Motivation

"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

Courage

"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

Liberation

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

Self-awareness

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

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

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

- Dr. Seuss

New Beginnings

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

- Jay-Z

Resilience

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

- Childish Gambino

Taking Risks

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else."

- E. E. Cummings

Self-esteem

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

- Nelson Mandela

Education

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

- Wayne Dyer

Inspiration

"You change the world by being yourself."

- Yoko Ono

Belief in Self

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

- Marcus Garvey

Self-confidence

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Gustav Jung

Self-awareness

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

Resilience

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

- Michael Altshuler

Time Management

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

- Ross Simmonds

Hard Work

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

- Lao Tzu

Balance

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

- Drew Houston

Motivation

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

- Drake

Balance

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

- Maria Edgeworth

Presence

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

Love

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

- Pema Chodron

Reflection

"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire."

- Rumi

Inspiration

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

- Arlan Hamilton

Empowerment

"I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."

- Brené Brown

Bravery

"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

Time Management

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Choice

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

Positivity

"Don’t let the bastards grind you down."

- Margaret Atwood

Resilience

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

Taking Risks

"But I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms."

- Mindy Kaling

Self-confidence

"At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I’m a good person."

- Taraji P. Henson

Self-esteem

"Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring. So I go back to being me."

- Ain Eineziz

Self-confidence

"I’m safe inside this container called me."

- Haruki Murakami

Self-awareness

"And I said to my body, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath. And replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.’"

- Nayyirah Waheed

Self-care

"You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful."

- Jasmine Warga

Belief in Self

"May you choose yourself, always!"

- Malebo Sephodi

Choice

"At 54, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be."

- Michelle Obama

Personal Growth

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

- Toni Morrison

Empowerment

"I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did."

- Henry James

Self-esteem

"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

"One man with courage makes a majority."

- Andrew Jackson

Courage

"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it."

- Roseanne Barr

Empowerment

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."

- André Gide

Self-esteem

"Keep watering yourself. You’re growing."

- E.Russell

Personal Growth

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

- Thomas Aquinas

Taking Risks

"Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be."

- Jennifer Elisabeth

Belief in Self

"It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit."

- Eartha Kitt

Self-esteem

"Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore."

- Lady Gaga

Empowerment

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

- Coco Chanel

Originality

"Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."

- George R.R. Martin

Self-awareness

"Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others."

- Parker Palmer

Self-care

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

- Sylvia Plath

Awareness

"Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

Teamwork

"When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier."

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Empowerment

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."

- Michael Jordan

Teamwork

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

Empowerment

"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent."

- Charlie Munger

Wisdom

"Done is better than perfect."

- Sheryl Sandberg

Productivity

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

- Dita Von Teese

Self-awareness

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Happiness

"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness."

Self-esteem

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

Leadership

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Self-esteem

"Talk to yourself like someone you love."

Self-care

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."

Self-awareness

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

Empowerment

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

Self-awareness

"Time is spent where your priorities lie."

Reflection

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

Failure