Want to know the biggest difference between successful people and unsuccessful ones? Those who are successful believe in themselves. They constantly seek out inspiration and motivation to fuel their fire. They never, ever give up.
Whether you’re just looking for a little pick-me-up or you’re seeking an answer to a deeper question about your life purpose, read these encouraging quotes and prepare to get inspired.
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle Onassis
“All our dreams can come true–if we have the courage to pursue them.” -Walt Disney
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill
“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” -Zig Ziglar
“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” -Anne Frank
“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” -Tony Robbins
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” -Charles Swindoll
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” -Audrey Hepburn
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality in the mind next to honor “ -Aristotle
“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.” -Paulo Coelho
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” -Buddha
“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
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” -Chinese Proverb
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” -Albert Einstein
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” -Aristotle
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Every day I will renew my commitment and think about the benefits that come from it.” -John Maxwell
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” -Bruce Lee
“People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time–even when hard at work.” -Marcus Aurelius
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”. -Lao Tzu
“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
“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
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” -Michael Jordan
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” -Stephen Covey
“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
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.“ -Friedrich Nietzsche
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” -Steve Jobs
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” -Vince Lombardi
“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” -Walt Disney
“If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.” -Marcus Aurelius
“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” -Albert Einstein
“He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.“ -William James
“The best revenge is massive success.” -Frank Sinatra
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” -Robert Frost
