inspirational quotes

These quotes offer a range of inspirational messages, from encouragement to persevere, to finding one’s purpose, to embracing life’s challenges.

They come from a diverse group of individuals including authors, philosophers, leaders, and historical figures, each offering their unique perspective on life and success.

Here’s a comprehensive list of 101 inspirational quotes:

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” – Brian Tracy

“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 only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Aristotle

“Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.” – Jesus

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

“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

“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

“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

“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

“Teach thy tongue to say, ‘I do not know,’ and thous shalt progress.” – Maimonides

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“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

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“Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“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 which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it.” – Confucius

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

“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

“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” – Sheryl Sandberg

“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

“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

“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie

“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

“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

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti

“You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” – Erica Jong

“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

“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese Proverb

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.” – Unknown

“It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.” – Jesse Owens

“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.” – Sir Claus Moser

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” – Teddy Roosevelt

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony