These Inspirational Quotes will open your eyes to a wealth of knowledge and optimism. Enter simply into a collection of inspirational phrases that speak to the human spirit. Every quotation captures a timeless pearl of wisdom, from joy to resilience.
These are words of wisdom that might provide you with daily inspiration or a new outlook. Allow each sentence to pique your curiosity and inspire you to live a more empowered and enlightened life.
1. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
2. “If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.” – Admiral William Mcraven
3. “You are just enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
4. “The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.” – Unknown
5. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
6. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. “Dream big. Start small. Act now.” – Robin Sharma
8. “Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.” – Nicole Kidman
9. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
10. “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.” – Lady Gaga
11. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Les Brown
12. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
13. “Success is not just about making money; it’s about making a difference.” – Unknown
14. “The only failure is not to try.” – George Clooney
15. “Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” – Arnold H. Glasow
16. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso
17. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” – Oprah Winfrey
18. “If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” – Buddha
19. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
20. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
21. “Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it.” – Unknown
22. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
23. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
24. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
25. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
26. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
27. “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin
28. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.
29. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
30. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” – Muhammad Ali
31. “When you fail, you also learn how not to fail.” – Soichiro Honda
32. “I’m thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein
33. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincolin
34. “Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?” – Max Levchin
35. “Every Moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
36. “To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.” – Sugar Ray Robinson
37. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
38. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg
39. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson
40. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle
41. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!” – Norman Vincent Peale
42. “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” – J.M. Power
43. “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
44. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
45. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
46. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
47. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” – Serena Williams
48. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
49. “Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.” – Lydia M. Child
50. “Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.” – Ronald McNair
51. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
52. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes
53. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
54. “You are what you believe yourself to be.” – Paulo Coelho
55. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W. P. Kinsella
56. “What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
57. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
58. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
59. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
60. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
61. “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” – Unknown
62. “Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” – Oliver Goldsmith
63. “To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst.” – Wilson Kanadi
64. “If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.” – Beyonce
65. “Everybody stay positive no matter how negative life gets.” – Juice WRLD
66. “When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.” – Thomas Jefferson
67. “Your mind must be stronger than your feelings.” – Andrew Tate
68. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
69. “The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
70. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” – Zig Ziglar
71. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
72. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
73. “To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.” – Thomas Watson Sr.
74. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
75. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Bobby Unser
76. “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden
77. “You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle
78. “Happiness is not something ready–made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
79. “I know that now, and now is all that matters.” – Beth Dutton
80. “You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.” – Unknown
81. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
82. “Nothing left to do but smile.” – Jerry Garcia
83. “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Joyce Brothers
84. “Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.” – Nipsey Hussle
85. “If you want something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson
86. “It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.” – Danny Boyle
87. “I am my inspiration.” – Lizzo
88. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
89. “Only thing free in life is options.” – Moneybagg Yo
90. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
91. “I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘Try being rich first.’ See if that doesn’t cover most of it.” – Bill Murray
92. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
93. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert H. Schuller
94. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
95. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
96. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
97. “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.” – Duchess Meghan
98. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
99. “Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.” – Unknown
100. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne
101. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
102. “To lose your path is the way to find that path.” – BTS
103. “The worth of life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.” – Kevin Kline
104. “It’s never too late to get good at something.” – Guy Fieri
105. “If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.” – Drew Houston
106. “Life is just you make it, just don’t fake it.” – G Herbo
107. “Happiness is the real sense of fulfilment that comes from hard work.” – Joseph Barbara
108. “Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity.” – Will Smith
109. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” – Albert Einstein
110. “The harder I work, the luckier I become.” – Terry Pratchett
111. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
112. “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
113. “You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey
114. “Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” – Aisha Tyler
115. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
116. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
117. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
118. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton
119. “You can be the lead in your own life.” – Kerry Washington
120. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” – Will Smith
121. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl
122. “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
123. “There is no normal life, there’s just life. Get on with it.” – Doc Holliday
124. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
125. “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell
126. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford
127. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou
128. “When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.” – Les Brown
129. “The way get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
130. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” – Paulo Coelho
131. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
132. “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln
133. “Life’s struggles are necessary for growth.” – Auliq Ice
134. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing. you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee
135. “Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.” – Mao Zendong
136. “Maybe the hardest part of my life is just having the courage to try.” – Rachel Hollis
137. “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” – Kahlil Gibran
138. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
139. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
140. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
141. “If you learned a lesson it wasn’t a loss.” – Lil Baby
142. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller
143. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
144. “All humor is rooted in pain.” – Richard Pryor
145. “Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams.” – Christopher Columbus
146. “The Pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The Optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
147. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
148. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.” – L.M. Montgomery
149. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
150. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” – Earl Nightingale
151. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” – Erica Jong
152. “Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell.” – Amal Clooney
153. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” – Michael John Bobak
154. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
155. “Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.” – Elizabeth Elliot
156. “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” – Napoleon Hill
157. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West
158. “Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.” – Salvador Dali
159. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali
160. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi
161. “The secret of getting things done is to act.” – Dante Alighieri
162. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
163. “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Francis Chan
164. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” – John Maxwell
165. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
166. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama
167. “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
168. “We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.” – Earl Nightingale
169. “A dream deferred is a dream denied.” – Langston Hughes
170. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
171. “At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.” – Dr. Phil
172. “The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.” – Dawson Trotman
173. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.” – Satya Nani
174. “Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” – Dan Reeves
175. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
176. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” – Michael Jordan
177. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – William Shakespeare
178. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
179. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
180. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
181. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
182. “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
183. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
184. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
185. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
186. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
187. “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” – Reba McEntire
188. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
189. “To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” – Mark Twain
190. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
191. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” – Unknown
192. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
193. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
194. “You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.” – Andrew Murphy
195. “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” – Florence Nightingale
196. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom
197. “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” – Melissa Etheridge
198. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
199. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
200. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
201. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill
202. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino
203. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
204. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
205. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss
206. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Sean Patrick Flanery
207. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
208. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
209. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
210. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
211. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau
212. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” – Chris Grosser
213. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
214. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
215. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
216. “Success is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell
217. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
218. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
219. “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” – Roy T. Bennett
220. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
221. “The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.” – George Washington
222. “Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.” – Unknown
223. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
224. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
225. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
226. “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
227. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
228. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
229. “Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin
230. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi
231. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
232. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce
233. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain
234. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
235. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
236. “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” – Jim Morrison
237. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
238. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christian Andersen
239. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
240. “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” – John Wooden
241. “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.” – Charles Dickens
242. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” – Bob Marley
243. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
244. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy
245. “May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift
246. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
247. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
248. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
249. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
250. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
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