These Inspirational Quotes will help you make sweeping changes in your life today.
Finding motivation and inspiration to power through life's daily obstacles can be tough — let alone if tragedy or conflict is in the way of an optimistic outlook.
The stress in your career, amid relationships, and in life can take a mental toll before you know it. Taking the time to look to other inspiring leaders, both within
your circle and the world can help keep the flame of positivity burning within your life (at any age!).
1. “You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.”
— Nina Simone
2. “Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention, or influence.” — Gary Zukav
3. “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” — Brené Brown
4. "Love yourself first and everything else falls into place." — Lucille Ball
5. “If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself.” — Gabrielle Union
6. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
— E.E. Cummings
7. “You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison
8. "By being yourself you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before." — Edwin Elliot
9. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde
10. “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
11. “If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.” — Bell Hooks
12. "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." — Leo Buscaglia
13. "Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." — Judy Garland
14. “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.”
— George Sand
16. "Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." — Henri J.M. Nouwen
17. "Be happy for this moment. This moment in your life." — Omar Khayyam
18. "If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment." — Carlos Santana
19. "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." — Thich Nhat Hanh
20. "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'"
— Audrey Hepburn
21. "If you can dream it, you can do it." — Walt Disney
22. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist."
— Oscar Wilde
23 "Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." — Albert Schweitzer
24. "Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." — J.M. Barrie
25. "I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom." — Rosa Parks
26. "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." — Oscar Wilde
27. "Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."— Etty Hillesum
28. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." — Anne Lamott
29. "Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape."
— Bell Hooks
30. "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." — Unknown
31. "Self-care is how you take your power back." — Lalah Delia
32. "Being happy never goes out of style." — Lilly Pulitzer
33. "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
34. "Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."— Unknown
35. “A dead end is just a good place to turn around.” — Naomi Judd
36. “Even miracles take a little time.” — The Fairy Godmother, Cinderella
37. "You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." — A.A. Milne
38. "Find out who you are and do it on purpose." — Dolly Parton
39. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”
— Dolly Parton
40. “Make each day your masterpiece.” — John Wooden
41. “Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” — Lou Holtz
42.“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau
43. “We will fail when we fail to try.” — Rosa Parks
44. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
45. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” — Maya Angelou
46. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer
48. “Boss up and change your life / You can have it all, no sacrifice” — Lizzo
49. “The plan is to fan this spark into a flame.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
50. "I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals."
– Brad Pitt
51. "Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
– Grandma Moses
52. "Like looking both ways before crossing the street and then getting hit by a submarine."
– Clarke Smith, age 9, describing the first year of the pandemic.
53. "You don't become what you want, you become what you believe."
– Oprah Winfrey
54. "Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one."
– Ronald McNair
55."My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain."– Charlie Chaplin
56. "Failure is success if we learn from it."– Malcolm Forbes
57. "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember--the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."– Zig Ziglar
58. "Who sows virtue reaps honor."–Leonardo da Vinci
59. "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."– Ronald Reagan
60. "If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow."
– Beyonce
61. "Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make."
– Tim Berners-Lee
62. "When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither."– Thomas Jefferson
63. "Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious."– James Stewart
64. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” ―A.A. Milne
65. “Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself.”
―Jason Fried
66. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ―Benjamin Franklin
67. “The only one who can tell you “you can’t win” is you and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis
68. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” —Bo Jackson
69. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
—Albert Einstein
70. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
71. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain
72. “If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.”
―Napoleon Hill
73. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
―Abraham Lincoln
74. “Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.” —Unknown
75. “The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” ―Epicurus
76. “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” —Edna Mode
77. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” —Unknown
78. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” — Mahatma Gandhi
79. “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.”
—Norman Vincent Peale
80. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” — Herman Melville
81. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”
— Colin R. Davis
82. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.”
— Henry David Thoreau
83. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder
84. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” ―W. P. Kinsella
85. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers
86. “To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.”
—Dorothy West
87. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” — Tony Robbins
88. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
89. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins
90. “Women challenge the status quo because we are never it.” — Cindy Gallop
91. “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." ― Roseanne Barr
92. “A person without regrets is a nincompoop.” — Mia Farrow
93. “If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.”
— Steven Wright
94. “I always wanted to be somebody, but now, I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
95. “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles Schulz
96. “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
97. “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.”
— Bonnie Prudden
98. “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
99. “Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.” — Ellen Degeneres
100. “The sky isn’t the limit — the sky has no limit.” — Sarah Barker
