Quotes can be filled with knowledge and wisdom. They can inspire passion and motivation in almost anyone. Here are 50 of the most inspirational and motivational quotes about life, work, friendship, and love — check them out.
- “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” — Florence Nightingale
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
- “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” — Mark Twain
- “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” — Charles Swindoll
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” — Vincent van Gogh
- “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” — Dr. Seuss
- “The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.” — Joel Osteen
- “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein
- “The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” — Buddha
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” — Woody Allen
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand
- “Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.” — Kevin Kruse
- “We become what we think about.” — Earl Nightingale
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” — Les Brown
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” — Booker T. Washington
- “Limitations live only in our minds. But, if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” — Jamie Paolinetti
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
- “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb
- “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 that has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
- “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu
- “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” — Sheryl Sandberg
- “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Vision without execution is just hallucination.” — Henry Ford
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee
- “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” — Michael Jordan
- “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford
- “Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.” —Brian Tracy
- “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
- “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
“Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
- “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” — Tony Robbins
- “It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” — Mae Jemison
- “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” — Erma Bombeck
“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
- “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain
- “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” — Aristotle
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem
- “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” — Beverly Sills
- “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” — Benjamin Franklin
