101 Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational quotes from successful people like Oprah, Helen Keller, and Maya Angelou can help you reframe negative thoughts during tough times and change your attitude so you feel refreshed and motivated. These short positive sayings can work wonders.

 

001. “It always seems impossible until it is done”

Nelson Mandela

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002. “Make Every Day Your Masterpiece!”

Marshall Goldsmith

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003. “Fall seven times, stand up eight”

Japanese Proverb

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004. “You always pass failure on the way to success”

Mickey Rooney

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005. “We grow great by dreams”

Woodrow Wilson

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006. “Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr

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007. “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart”

Confucious

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008. “The more you give away the more happy you become”

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009. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

Dr. Suess

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010. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are?”

Theodore Roosevelt

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011. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present"

Eleanor Roosevelt

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012. “No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers”

Wolfgang Riebe

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013. “Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher”

Oprah Winfrey

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014. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts”

Charles Dickens

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015. “Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends”

Art Linkletter

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016. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined”

Henry David Thoreau

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017. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale”

Hans Christen Andersen

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018. “So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! Kid, you’ll move mountains”

Dr. Seuss

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019. “When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character”

W. Somerset Maugham

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020. “Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse”

Earl of Chesterfield

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021. “Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think”

Dale Carnegie

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022. “Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best”

Henry Van Dyke

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023. “The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going”

Napoleon Hill

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024. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”

Aristotle

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 025. “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely”

Roald Dahl

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026. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”

 Mahatma Gandhi

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027. “Always keep a positive mindset, it will improve your outlook on the world”

Roald Dahl

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028. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible”

Dalai Lama

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029. “It’s not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters”

Epictetus

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030. “You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind,
but you can change yourself. That is something you have”

Jim Rohn

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031. “Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment”

Horace

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032. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”

Eleanor Roosevelt

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033. “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything”

Theodore Roosevelt

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034. “Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything,
You are you and that is the beginning and the end,
no apologies, no regrets”

Clark Moustakas

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035. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill Always chase your dreams instead of running from your fears”

Anonymous

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036. “Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning”

Diane Ackerman

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037. “Little by little one walks far”

Peruvian Proverb

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038. “You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!”

Marie Correlli

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039. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”

John Wooden

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040. “I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass”

Gordon B. Hinckley

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041. “We have to do the best we can.  This is our sacred human responsibility”

Albert Einstein

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042. “Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way”

Booker T. Washington

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043. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started”

Mark Twain

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044. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream, precedes the goal”

Pamela Vaull Starr

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045. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great”

Mark Twain

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046. “We must be the change we want to see”

Mahatma Gandhi

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047. “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing”

Theodore Roosevelt

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048. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”

Thomas Edison

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049. “The time is always right to do what is right”

Martin Luther King, Jr

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050. “Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity”

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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051. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens”

Helen Keller

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052. “Don’t doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are”

Aslan

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053. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud”

Maya Angelou

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054. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself”

Henry Ward Beecher

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055. “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts”

Albert Einstein

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056. “Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself”

Luna Lovegood

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057. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled”

Plutarch

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058. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”

Thomas Alva Edison

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059. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”

Mahatma Gandhi

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060. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely”

Roald Dahl

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061. “You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think”

A.A. Milne

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062. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit”

Aristotle

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063. “Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you”

Madeline Bridge

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064. “You are not meant for crawling. You have wings. Learn to use them”

Rumi

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065. “When you know better you do better”

Maya Angelou

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066. “We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy”

Albus Dumbledore

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067. “Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting so get on your way”

Dr. Seuss

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068. “Every object, every being, is a jar of delight. Be a connoisseur”

Rumi

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069. “If you can dream it, you can do it”

Walt Disney

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070. “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom”

Socrates

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

Robert Frost

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072. “An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends”

Benjamin Franklin

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073. “True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done,
the zest of creating things new”

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074. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go!”

Dr. Seuss

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075. “The most important things in life are not what you can see, but what you feel”

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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076. “It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate”

George Burns

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077. “Never doubt yourself, it will only hold you back”

George Burns

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078. “ The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

Vince Lombardi

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079. “ If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”

Margaret Mead

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080. “Don’t expect your friend to be a perfect person. But, help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship!”

Mother Teresa

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081. “Don’t be afraid of life’s challenges”

Louisa May Alcott

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082. “I do the very best I know, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end”

Abraham Lincoln

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083. “Do your best when no one is looking.  If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to”

Bob Cousy

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084. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best”

Duke Ellington

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085. “If you try to do your best, there is no failure”
Mike Farrell
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086. “Whatever you are, be a good one”

Abraham Lincoln

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087. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream, precedes the goal”

Ralph Vaull Starr

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088. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you…you’ll be a Man, my son!”

Rudyard Kipling

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089. “Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr

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090. “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was”

Richard L. Evans

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091. “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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”

Mark Twain

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091. “Because life is a gift, all of us are gifted”

Noah Benshea

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092. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today”

H. Jackson Brown

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093. “Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.  Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.  If you do little jobs well, the big one will tend to take care of themselves”

Dale Carnegie

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094. “If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just”

Anita Roddick

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095. “Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment”

Oprah Winfrey

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096. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do”

Eleanor Roosevelt

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097. “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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098. “Do right.  Do your best.  Treat others the way you want to be treated”

Lou Holtz

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099. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little difference”

Jimmy Johnson

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100. “No effort that we take to attain something beautiful is ever lost”

Helen Keller

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101. “People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach”

Marguerite de Navarre

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