Our collection of 100 inspirational quotes is the perfect read to get you feeling uplifted, motivated, and ready to take on the world.
Sometimes, it’s hard to get going on the things we care about. There’s nothing like some hard-hitting motivational quotes from successful people to get us feeling amazing and inspired.
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Let’s jump right into these incredibly inspiring quotes about success!
Inspirational Quotes
1. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney
2. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
3. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
4. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” – Mae Jemison
5. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
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6. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”- Mahatma Gandhi
7. “Live each day as if your life had just begun.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
8. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right..” – Henry Ford
9. “You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.” – Unknown
10. “Your only limit is your mind.” – Unknown
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11. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”- George Bernard Shaw
12. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.” – Unknown
13. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
14. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ― Walt Disney
15. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
16. “Life isn’t promised to us. We are blessed every day by simply being able to rise in the morning.” – Unknown
17. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield
18. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”- George Addair
19. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” – Dr. Henry Link
20. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
21. “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”- Brian Tracy
22. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”- Mae West
23. “Challenges are what makes life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
24. “When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something.” – Anita Krizzan
25. “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” – Axendar Den Heijer
26. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs
27. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”- Rob Siltanen
29. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”- Dalai Lama
30. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
31. “We become what we think about” – Earl Nightingale
32. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
33. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” – Michael Altshuler
34. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy
35. “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
36. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
37. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
38. “Fake it until you make it! Act as if you had all the confidence you require until it becomes your reality.” – Brian Tracy
39. “You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot ― it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” ― Maya Angelou
40. “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
41. “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
42. “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai
43. “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” – Jack Canfield
44. “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
45. “Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.” – Joe Clark
46. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” – William James
47. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
48. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost
49. “Whoever loves much, performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” – Vincent Van Gogh
50. “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
51. “Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”- Brian Tracy
52. “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
53. “What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110% all the time.” – Don Zimmer
54. “Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.” – Brian Tracy
55. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill
56. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” – Unknown
57. “Whoever loves much, performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well” – Van Gough
58. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn
59. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” – Benjamin Disraeli
60. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
61. “You get what you give.” – Jennifer Lopez
62. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
63. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie
64. “There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.” – Brian Tracy
65. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
66. “Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” – Ray Kroc
67. “Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.” – George Bernard Shaw
68. “It is not enough to aim, you must hit.” – Italian Proverb
69. “The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” – Hasidic Proverb
70. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”- Albert Einstein
71. “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”- Allen Saunders
72. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
73. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
74. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs
75. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
76. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
77. “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion
78. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”— Lao-Tze
79. “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll
80. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
81. “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” — Benjamin Franklin
82. “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” — Neil Armstrong
83. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
84. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” — Mary Kay Ash
85. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett
86. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” – Mahatma Gandhi
87. “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
88. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
89. “When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.” — Confucius
90. “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you, and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” — Will Smith
91. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” — Kevin Kruse
92. “The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra
93. “Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John
94. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
95. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth
96. “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” — Kate Winslet
97. “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” —Jeff Bezos
98. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” – Audrey Hepburn
99. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”– Buddha
100. “There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.” — Derek Jeter
Holly Jaskolka is a certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, yoga instructor, and an impassioned advocate for holistic well-being. Fueled by her love for animals and wanderlust, Holly leads a plant-based lifestyle that she complements with immersive travel experiences. When she’s not jet-setting to uncover the world’s hidden gems, she’s empowering individuals to heal emotionally, particularly those grappling with the aftermath of breakups. Connect with Holly on LinkedIn.
