Nobody is immune to challenging times and sometimes all it takes are some words of encouragement from others. These will help get you going again.
Do you feel as if you are putting in enough work toward achieving your hopes, goals, and dreams? If your answer is no, there is absolutely no need to fret. Cast your worries aside because, at any moment, you can make the choice to do better and maximize your potential.
Here are 50 inspirational quotes to give you some extra motivation on your journey toward a life filled with achievement, success, and happiness:
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” — Og Mandino
- “Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” — Brian Tracy
- “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James
- “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” — Kobe Bryant
- “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” — Nelson Mandela
- “In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” — Les Brown
- “It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.” — Robert H. Schuller
- “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill
- “Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” — Vince Lombardi
- “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” — Rob Siltanen
- “One kind word can change someone’s entire day.” — Unknown
- “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” — Colin Powell
- “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
- “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” — Coco Chanel
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
- “When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
- “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain
- “All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb
- “Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines.” — Robert Schuller
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
- “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” — Pat Riley
- “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James
- “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.” — Steve Case
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald
- “There will never be ‘the right time’ in your life to do a great thing. You must create that time and greatness will follow.” — John A. Passaro
- “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.” — Dr. Henry Link
- “The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the best out of everything that comes their way.” — Unknown
- “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai
- “A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation” — Benjamin Disraeli
- “There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.” — Alexandre Dumas
- “Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “Being happy doesn’t mean you’re perfect. It just means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” — K.B. Indiana
- “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” — Epicurus
- “The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.” — Elbert Hubbard
- “You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” — Maxwell Maltz
- “No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world and myself.” — Unknown
- “Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing what you can do.” — John Wooden
- “One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist…Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.” — Stephen Hawking
- “Do not check your soul at the door when you cross the threshold of your workplace. Whether you are a custodian or a CEO, practice work as sacred art. Respect comes not from the work you do, but the way you do your work.” — Mary Morrissey
- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” — Babe Ruth
- “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” — Stephen Richards
- “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
- “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill
- “Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher.” — Oprah Winfrey