101 Inspirational Quotes
Aug 27, 2020
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
002. “Make Every Day Your Masterpiece!”
Marshall Goldsmith
003. “Fall seven times, stand up eight”
Japanese Proverb
004. “You always pass failure on the way to success”
Mickey Rooney
005. “We grow great by dreams”
Woodrow Wilson
006. “Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr
007. “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart”
Confucious
008. “The more you give away the more happy you become”
009. “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
Dr. Suess
010. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are?”
Theodore Roosevelt
011. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present"
Eleanor Roosevelt
012. “No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers”
Wolfgang Riebe
013. “Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher”
Oprah Winfrey
014. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts”
Charles Dickens
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
016. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined”
Henry David Thoreau
017. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale”
Hans Christen Andersen
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
019. “When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character”
W. Somerset Maugham
020. “Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse”
Earl of Chesterfield
021. “Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think”
Dale Carnegie
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
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
024. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it”
Aristotle
025. “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely”
Roald Dahl
026. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
Mahatma Gandhi
027. “Always keep a positive mindset, it will improve your outlook on the world”
Roald Dahl
028. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible”
Dalai Lama
029. “It’s not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters”
Epictetus
030. “You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind,
but you can change yourself. That is something you have”
Jim Rohn
031. “Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment”
Horace
032. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
Eleanor Roosevelt
033. “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything”
Theodore Roosevelt
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
035. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill Always chase your dreams instead of running from your fears”
Anonymous
036. “Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning”
Diane Ackerman
037. “Little by little one walks far”
Peruvian Proverb
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
039. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”
John Wooden
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
041. “We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility”
Albert Einstein
042. “Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way”
Booker T. Washington
043. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started”
Mark Twain
044. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream, precedes the goal”
Pamela Vaull Starr
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
046. “We must be the change we want to see”
Mahatma Gandhi
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
048. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”
Thomas Edison
049. “The time is always right to do what is right”
Martin Luther King, Jr
050. “Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity”
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
051. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens”
Helen Keller
052. “Don’t doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are”
Aslan
053. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud”
Maya Angelou
054. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself”
Henry Ward Beecher
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
056. “Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself”
Luna Lovegood
057. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled”
Plutarch
058. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”
Thomas Alva Edison
059. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”
Mahatma Gandhi
060. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely”
Roald Dahl
061. “You’re braver than you believe and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think”
A.A. Milne
062. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit”
Aristotle
063. “Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you”
Madeline Bridge
064. “You are not meant for crawling. You have wings. Learn to use them”
Rumi
065. “When you know better you do better”
Maya Angelou
066. “We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy”
Albus Dumbledore
067. “Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting so get on your way”
Dr. Seuss
068. “Every object, every being, is a jar of delight. Be a connoisseur”
Rumi
069. “If you can dream it, you can do it”
Walt Disney
070. “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom”
Socrates
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
072. “An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends”
Benjamin Franklin
073. “True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done,
the zest of creating things new”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
074. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go!”
Dr. Seuss
075. “The most important things in life are not what you can see, but what you feel”
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
076. “It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate”
George Burns
077. “Never doubt yourself, it will only hold you back”
George Burns
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
079. “ If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
Margaret Mead
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
081. “Don’t be afraid of life’s challenges”
Louisa May Alcott
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
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
084. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best”
Duke Ellington
086. “Whatever you are, be a good one”
Abraham Lincoln
087. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream, precedes the goal”
Ralph Vaull Starr
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
089. “Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr
090. “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was”
Richard L. Evans
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
091. “Because life is a gift, all of us are gifted”
Noah Benshea
092. “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today”
H. Jackson Brown
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
094. “If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just”
Anita Roddick
095. “Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment”
Oprah Winfrey
096. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do”
Eleanor Roosevelt
097. “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
098. “Do right. Do your best. Treat others the way you want to be treated”
Lou Holtz
099. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little difference”
Jimmy Johnson
100. “No effort that we take to attain something beautiful is ever lost”
Helen Keller
101. “People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach”
Marguerite de Navarre
