Inspirational Quotes That Can Motivate You To Be Your Best.

These inspirational quotes can turn any average person into an extra-ordinary individual. They are the minds of the great leaders who have gone ahead of us. You might not know them physically, but you can tap into the wealth of their knowledge and insights through their words.









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

An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.– William James

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

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

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

Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.– Winston Churchill

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.– Joe Clark

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

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

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.– John Wooden

Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand.- Napoleon Hill

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?-George Eliot

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

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.– Jack Canfield

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.- Orison Swett Marden

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.- Christian Nestell Bovee

Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem









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

Eighty percent of success is showing up.– Woody Allen

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.– Will Rogers

Every artist was first an amateur.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

Every noble work is at first impossible.– Thomas Carlyle

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

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

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.- Benjamin Disraeli









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

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.-Epictetus

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

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

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.-Leon J. Suenes

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

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.– Stephen Covey

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.– Albert Einstein

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.- Charlotte Bronte

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

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

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

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

I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she will make the same effort, and have the same hope and faith.- Mahatma Gandhi

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.-Anna Freud

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

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’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









If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar

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

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

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

If you would create something, you must be something.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.- William James

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

Inspiration and genius–one and the same.- Victor Hugo

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

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

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

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.– Mark Twain Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfils itself.- W. C. Doane 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 Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti Live each day as if your life had just begun.– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 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 Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.– Ray Kroc Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.– Thomas Edison Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.- Thomas Carlyle No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond our reach.- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.– Benjamin Disraeli Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. – Vince Lombardi Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.– George Bernard Shaw Speak less than you know; have more than you show.– William Shakespeare Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein 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 The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb 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 The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.– Oliver Wendell Holmes The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.– Lao Tzu The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.- Horace Bushnell The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.– Arthur C. Clarke The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs The power of imagination makes us infinite.- John Muir The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.– Will Rogers The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.– Zig Ziglar The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach 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 There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle 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 To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:”Leave no stone unturned.”-Edward Bulwer Lytton Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown Try not to become a man of success but a man 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 We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.- John Gardner We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.- Helen Keller 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 We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie 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 Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’– Sydney Harris









When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.– Lao Tzu 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 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 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 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 Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.– Vincent Van Gogh Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. – Erica Jong Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

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