50+ Inspirational TV Show Quotes to Motivate and Uplift Your Spirit

Discover a powerful collection of over 50 inspirational quotes from your favorite TV shows that will motivate, uplift, and inspire you. From timeless wisdom to fierce encouragement, these quotes capture the essence of resilience, courage, and self-love. Whether you're facing challenges or simply need a boost of positivity, these memorable lines from beloved characters remind us to embrace our true selves, keep pushing forward, and cherish the moments that make life meaningful. Dive into this curated selection and find the perfect quote to brighten your day or share with friends. Explore quotes that encourage strength in adversity, the importance of kindness, and the beauty of change. Let these words from iconic TV moments become your daily mantra and fuel your journey toward a more inspired life.

Wisdom from the Masters

"Sucking At Something Is The First Step To Becoming Sorta Good At Something."

- Jake

Persistence

"You don’t have to look tall to stand tall"

- Tyrion Lannister

Belief in Self

"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them"

- Andy Bernard

Reflection

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

- Winston Churchill

Courage

"Not Everything Is A Lesson, Ryan. Sometimes You Just Fail."

- Dwight

Failure

"You Can't Give Up Hope Just Because It's Hopeless! You Gotta Hope Even More!"

- Fry

Hope

"It always seems impossible, until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

Success

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

- Winston Churchill

Resilience

"Sometimes We Have To Go Deep Inside Ourselves To Solve Our Problems."

- Patrick

Self-awareness

"Someday soon you’re gonna have families of your own, and if you’re lucky, you’ll remember the little moments like this that were good."

- Tony Soprano

Gratitude

"We formulate our questions based on the answers we want to hear."

- Dr. Gregory House

Insight

"Life is precious because you can’t watch it again. I mean, you can believe in an afterlife if that makes you feel better. Doesn’t mean it’s true."

- Tony Johnson

Philosophy

"The Man who passes the sentence should swing the sword"

- Eddard Stark

Integrity

"We are captives of our own identities, living in prisons of our own creation."

- Theodor Bagwell

Self-awareness

"There are no heroes or villains, just people with different agendas"

- Matthew Murdock

Philosophy

"Always be yourself, as long as you are not an asshole"

- Saul Goodman

Integrity

"What you call love was invented by guys like me... to sell Nylons."

- Don Draper

Philosophy

"All Lives end: all hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage, Sherlock."

- Mycroft Holmes

Compassion

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

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

- Albert Einstein

Learning

"What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Resilience

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

Belief

"Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

Motivation

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."

- Confucius

Hard Work

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

Education

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

Reflection

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

- Henry David Thoreau

Success

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Success

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

Resilience

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

- Wayne W. Dyer

Change

"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

Change

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

Change

"The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself."

- Tony Robbins

Self-awareness

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

Resilience

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

- Albert Einstein

Adaptation

"If You Don't Love What You Do, Then Why Do It?"

- Jean-Ralphio/Kim The Waxing Lady

Motivation

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

Change

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over."

- Steve Maraboli

Change

"Some Days You Get The Giraffe, And Other Days You Get The Wig."

- Cheyenne

Positivity

"Dress like you are meeting your worst enemy"

- Harvey Specter

Self-confidence

"I am on a Curiosity Voyage and I need my paddles to travel. These books, they are my paddles."

- Dustin

Learning

"No matter how many reasons there might be why; there are always more why not."

- Olivia Baker

Positivity

"Geography is Destiny"

- Jack Ryan

Philosophy

"You Gotta Be Responsible Sometimes."

- Mordecai

Responsibility

"It’s so exhausting, waiting for death."

- Phoebe Buffay

Philosophy

"People are all we’ve got. So grab the night by its nipples and go flirt with someone"

- Belinda

Connection to Earth

"I've known good criminals and bad cops."

- Mike Ehrmantraut

Morality

"To succeed in life, you need three things: A wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."

- Reba McEntire

Success

"All great changes are preceded by chaos."

- Deepak Chopra

Change

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

Change

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong."

- Mandy Hale

Change

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

New Beginnings

"Change before you have to."

- Jack Welch

Change

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

Adversity

"Don't be sorry, be fierce."

- RuPaul

Self-confidence

"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you."

- Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones

Self-confidence

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Self-esteem

"I love you, but I love me more."

- Samantha

Self-esteem

"Have courage and be kind."

- Cinderella

Bravery

"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want."

- 10 Things I Hate About You

Self-esteem

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Time Management

"Who needs a house up on a hill, When you can have one on four wheels?"

- Movin’ On TV Series

Contentment

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Adaptation

"There is peace even in the storm."

- Vincent van Gogh

Inner Peace

"Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally; it comes from what you do consistently."

- Marie Forleo

Persistence

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

- Seneca

Contentment

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

Resilience

"Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver and gold."

- Bob Marley

Wisdom

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

- Jimi Hendrix

Wisdom

"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."

- Maurice Switzer

Wisdom

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom

"I Don't Need No Instructions To Know How To Rock."

- Carl

Self-confidence

"Some People Are Meant To Be With People, And Others, Like Me, Are Just Different."

- Pigeon Man

Self-awareness

"A family in harmony will prosper in everything."

- Chinese Proverb

Family

"People change and forget to tell each other."

- Lillian Hellman

Change

"When life knocks you down, roll over and look at the stars."

- Wise Stranger

Resilience

"Hey, Buddha, nice Tom Fords."

- Roman Roy

Insight

"Let's Rock."

- Al Bundy

Motivation

"Stars can’t shine without darkness."

- D.H. Sidebottom

Hope

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour, and it can never be used against you."

Self-awareness

"Don’t be sorry, be fierce."

Self-confidence

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

Hard Work

"Treat yo’self"

Self-care

"Learning requires failure."

Learning from Mistakes

"Strong is fighting. It’s hard, and it’s painful, and it’s every day. It’s what we have to do, and we can do it together."

Strength

"Nobody important? In 900 years in time and space, I’ve never met someone who wasn’t important before."

Belief in Self

"You can’t change your past, but you can let go and start your future."

New Beginnings

"I am never going to put boundaries on me ever again, I’m never going to say ‘maybe’. I’m never going to say ‘I don’t think I can’. I can and I will."

Determination

"Okay, I'm cookie dough. I'm not done baking yet. I'm not finished becoming... whoever the hell it is I'm gonna turn out to be. I make it through this and the next thing and the next thing, and maybe one day I turn around and realise I'm ready, I'm cookies."

Personal Growth

"The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."

Love

"Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have found my way to the goblin city to take back the child you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom is as great. You have no power over me."

Courage

"Worrying means you suffer twice."

Adversity

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

Optimism

"I don't want to survive, I want to live!"

Ambition

"Treat yo’self."

Self-care

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it."

Presence

"Don't run. Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV."

Mindfulness

"Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good."

Motivation

"You know, it’s funny...when you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags."

Awareness

"You're gonna make it after all."

Hope

"You get to exhale now, Simon."

Empowerment

"Don't dream it. Be it."

Ambition

"If you want me, earn me."

Self-esteem

"I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you...to make each day count."

Gratitude

"Of course it's happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?"

Awareness

"Remember, no man is a failure who has friends."

Connection to Earth

"It would just make my heart soar if someone out there saw this and she said to herself: be strong, trust yourself, love yourself. Conquer your fears. Just go after what you want and act fast, because life just isn’t that long."

Courage

"The night is always darkest just before the dawn, but I assure you, the dawn is coming."

Hope

"I care. I care a lot. It's kinda my thing."

Empathy

"In your place, if there is pain, nurse it. And if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out. Don’t be brutal with it. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster, that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything...what a waste."

Healing

"We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."

Connection to Earth

"And I swear, in that moment, we were infinite."

Joy

"No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it."

Strength

"You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life."

- Unknown

Perseverance

"Behind every success, there is a pack of haters."

Success

"Rock bottom will teach you lessons that mountaintops never will."

- Unknown

Growth

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."

Wisdom

"I don’t even have a ‘pla’."

Contentment

"It’s always darkest before the dawn."

Hope

"Where there’s life, there’s hope."

Hope

"Nice is different than good."

Awareness

"I have a family. I promise to love them, protect them, and kill them if they spy on me."

- Unknown

Family