111 Inspirational Quotes

We all need some inspiration every now and then to motivate ourselves, to keep going during the tough times or to get up and get going after we fall. We can always use some good inspirational quotes. So if you’re looking for some inspirations quotes, we’ve got 111 inspirational quotes for you in this article. So let’s start.

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Dennis P. Kimbro
Life is about making an impact, not making an income. –Kevin Kruse
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” – Erma Bombeck
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now. –Chinese Proverb
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney Harris
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
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” – Ray Kroc
“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
“Speak less than you know; have more than you show.” – William Shakespeare
“You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.” – English Proverb
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget
Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”– Winston Churchill
“The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
“Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.”– George Bernard Shaw
It is not enough to aim, you must hit.” – Italian Proverb
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle
“If not us, who? If not now, when?” – John F. Kennedy
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
“Rule #1 of life. Do what makes YOU happy.” – Unknown
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon
“We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank
“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb
“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” – Prescott
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato
“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” – Dudley Field Malone
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg
Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle
Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” ― Marilyn Monroe
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein
Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti