Here are the 100 best inspirational quotes to inspire your life.
Feel inspired by Albert Einstein, Taylor Swift, Aristotle, Martin Luther King, Pablo Picasso, and many more.
Inspirational quotes from famous people
The road to success is not an easy one.
Before we reach our goals, we often have to overcome numerous obstacles, which can lead to setbacks in our motivation to keep going foreward.
However, it is only on ourselves whether we give up or persevere.
When doubts appear, and you need a little encouragement, you can get inspired by these quotes from famous and successful people.
Inspirational quotes that motivate
Fortunately, there are several ways to find motivation.
For example, we can be inspired by people who achieved their goals – often despite several failures.
I’ve selected the best inspirational quotes from famous people who can help you get on the right track to achieve your goals.
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100 Inspirational Quotes
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West- “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 
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
― Helen Keller- “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
― Walt Disney Company - “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde 
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
― William G.T. Shedd- “If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.”
― Anonymus - “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
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“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson- “You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Albert Einstein - “You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw - “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
― Marilyn Monroe
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― Roy T. Bennett - “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein - “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
― Alice Walker 
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt- “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch - “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it “
— Charles Swindoll - “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”
― Langston Hughes - “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi - “How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.”
― Steve Maraboli - “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh - “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”
― Dr. Seuss - “However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
― Gautama Buddha 
“Just pick a goal and stick to it… no big complicated secret.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw - ” In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”
– Tony Robbins
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― Bob Marley 
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. - “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― Nicholas Sparks - “When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”
― Karen E. Quinones Miller - “If you’re reading this…
Congratulations, you’re alive.
If that’s not something to smile about,
then I don’t know what is.”
― Chad Sugg - “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous - “What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich - “Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C. - “The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body; use yours to lift someone up today.”
― Terri Ann Armstrong - “Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.”
― Turcois Ominek - “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar - “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu - “To me, “Fearless” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”
― Taylor Swift - “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost - “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt 
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot- “The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”
— Charles Kingsleigh - “We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk - “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.”
― Jim Morrison 
“You can do anything you want to do, if you want to do it bad enough.”
― Tim Carter- “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
― Stephen R. Covey - “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill - “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”
― Vince Lombardi Jr. 
“You can get what you want or you can just get old.”
― Billy Joel- “No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
― Alice Sebold - “When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.”
– Harley Davidson - “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson - “People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don’t EVER stop!”
― Steve Maraboli - “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho - “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein - “At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.”
― Scott Hahn - “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir - “What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
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― William W. Purkey 
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”
– Aristotle- “Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell - “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain - “The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.”
― Roy T. Bennett - “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein - “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.”
― James Oppenheim 
“Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.”
― Bill Wilson- “I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
― Santosh Kalwar - “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder - “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Jalaluddin Rumi - “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. 
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
— Jack London- “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.”
― Claire Cook - “Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton - “Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso - “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
— Paulo Coelho - “The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn’t look like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, he’s going to keep digging, he’s going to keep trying to do right and make up for what’s gone before, just because that’s who he is.”
― Joss Whedon - “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov 
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
– Rabindranath Tagore- “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Napoleon Hill - “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
― Steve Maraboli - “Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
― Paulo Coelho - “What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.”
― Maya Angelou - “Don’t change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you’re wrong.”
― Criss Jami 
“Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.”
― Cathy Hopkins- “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.”
– Tommy Lasorda - “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
– Thomas Jefferson - “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― Francis of Assisi - “Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”
– Satchel Paige - “Live the Life of Your Dreams.
When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.”
― Roy T. Bennett - “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson - “Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then… find the way.”
― Abraham Lincoln - “Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein - “The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle - “Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier - “This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today…But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.”
― Hermann Hesse 
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.”
— Ralph Marston
“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
― Karen Lamb
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale
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Inspirational quotes to get back up again
Life is like a roller coaster ride. Sometimes it goes up, and sometimes it goes down again.
And when you’re at rock bottom, there’s nothing you can do but pick yourself up, push yourself up, and keep going.
Crawl, claw, and fight your way back up, if you have to. You can do it!
Motivational phrases and inspirational quotes can give us strength in hard times. They can help us achieve our goals or simply make us rethink what we need to do, to get what we want to have.
You can find some of the best inspirational quotes and sayings here.
The first step on the road to success is realizing that success results from ambition, consistency, willpower, and a little bit of luck.
Many successful entrepreneurs, politicians, and philosophers have put their personal life experiences into words and left us with memorable quotes. Here you can find the most inspiring and motivating statements.
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What’s your favorite inspirational quote?
Hopefully, you can find some much needed inspiration in these quotes. Maybe some of them will even speak directly to your heart. But if I missed a quote that has a special meaning to you, feel free to leave a comment below.
I have painstakingly gathered these 101 inspirational quotes and sayings for your and my success.
I have collected these quotes from many different sources. They have been lying dormant in my notebook for a long time and are finally ready to be published as a collection.
With this, I want to create and share a resource with you so that you and I can refer back to these quotes whenever we find ourselves at “rock bottom” of the roller coaster ride called life.
This was a lot of work, and I’d love for you to share these quotes with somebody who needs a little inspiration today.
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