Inspirational Quotes to Motivate You for Work, Love, and Life

1. "Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind." — Dodinsky, In the Garden of Thoughts: Be Your Best Self
2. “You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved
3. "Be happy for this moment. This moment in your life." — Omar Khayyam
4. "If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment." — Carlos Santana
5. "If you can dream it, you can do it." — Walt Disney
6. "Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." — Albert Schweitzer
7. "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." — Maya Angelou
8. “Give light, and people will find the way.” — Ella Baker
9. “Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.” — Helen Keller
10. “A person without regrets is a nincompoop.” — Mia Farrow
11. “Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” — Kate Winslet
12. “If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.” — Geena Davis
13. “Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.” — Oprah Winfrey
14. “Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso
15. “Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” — Maggie Kuhn
16. "It is better to travel well than to arrive." — Buddha
17. “The sky isn’t the limit — the sky has no limit.” — Sarah Barker
18. “If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself.” — Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine
19. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb
20. “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” — Camilla Eyring Kimball
21. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer
22. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs
23. "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." — W. Clement Stone"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." — Napoleon Hill
24. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." — Milton Berle
25. "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it." — J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
26. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
    
27. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
28. "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." — Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving, & Learning
29. “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. "Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." — Henri J.M. Nouwen
31. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist." — Oscar Wilde
32. "Never regret anything that made you smile." — Mark Twain
33. “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” — Hafez
34. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
35. "In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." — Robert Frost
36. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles M. Schulz
37. "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." — Bil Keane
38. "It always seems impossible until it's done." — Nelson Mandela
39. “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
40. "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
41. “Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” — Lady Gaga
42. “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” — Taylor Swift
43. “Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door.” — Brooke Shields
44. “The only way to have a life is to commit it to like crazy.” — Angelina Jolie
45. “Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There’s only one you.” — Queen Latifah
46. "Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is, and you'll see them all around you." — Jon Bon Jovi
47. “I was built this way for a reason, so I’m going to use it.” — Simone Biles
48. “I have standards I don’t plan on lowering for anybody, including myself.” — Zendaya
49. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs
50. "Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." — Judy Garland
51. "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'" — Audrey Hepburn
52. "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein
53. “I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up, and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life.” — Kerry Washington
54. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde
55. “If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.” — Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
56. "Sometimes, your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes, your smile can be the source of your joy." — Thich Nhat Hanh
57. “True friendship is like a rose. We don’t realize its beauty until it fades.” — Evelyn Loeb
58. "Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend." — Bill Watterson
59. "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius
60. “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” — Bonnie Prudden
61. "Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine." — Mario Fernández
62. "You don't always need a plan. Sometimes, you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens." — Mandy Hale
63. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi
64. "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll
65. “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”— Norman Vincent Peale
66. "Success is not a destination, it's a journey." — Zig Ziglar
67. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou
68. “Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.” — Mallika Tripathi
69. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
70. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown
71. “If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.” — Steven Wright
72. “It’s a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon.” — Kermit the Frog
73. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis
74. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey
75. "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." — Zig Ziglar
76. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis
77. “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the errors that counts.” — Nikki Giovanni
78. "Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." — Suzy Kassem
79. "Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones
80. “When you put love out in the world, it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.” — Laverne Cox
81. “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa
82. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller
83. “You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” — Nina Simone, “You’ve Got to Learn”
84. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into place." — Lucille Ball
85. “There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.” — George Sand
86. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
87. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” — Brené Brown
88. "Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are." — Stephanie Lahart, Overcoming Life's Obstacles: Enlighten-Encourage-Empower
89. "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." — Winston Churchill
90. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey
91. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy
92. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." — George Bernard Shaw
93. “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 which has been opened for us.” — Helen K
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95. “Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
96. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
97. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Ghandi
98. “Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.” — Ellen DeGeneres
99. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” — Andy Warhol
    
100. "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." — Rabindranath Tagore
101. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
102. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
103. "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt
104. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” — Neil Gaiman
105. “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
106. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill
     
107. “It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.” — Walter Anderson
108. "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." — Nora Ephron
109. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings
110. “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” — Trivia Cunningham
111. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” — Duke Ellington
112. “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” — Harper Lee
113. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein
114. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
115. “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.” — Janis Joplin
116. "Follow your heart. Listen to your inner voice. Stop caring about what others think.”
     — Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
117. “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” — Coco Chanel
118. “You can’t be hesitant about who you are.” — Viola Davis
119. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” — William W. Purkey
120. “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” — Marilyn Monroe
121. “Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention, or influence.” — Gary Zukav
122. "By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before." — Edwin Elliot
123. "Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." — J.M. Barrie
124. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now, I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
125. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
126. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." — Ralph Waldo Emerson