137 Most Inspirational or Motivational Quotes of All Time

1.“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” — John Muir

2.“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

3.”Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

4.“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

5.“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller

6.“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller

7.”Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. – Jim Rohn

8.“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

9.” Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible”! – Audrey Hepburn 

10.”Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

12. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

13. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou

14. “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Charles Kettering

15. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

16. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford

17. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

18. “You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.” – Henry David Thoreau 

19. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

20. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

21. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”  – Babe Ruth

22. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

23. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

24. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

25. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

26. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach

27. “I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” —Gustave Flaubert 

28. “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” – Teddy Roosevelt

29. “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” – John Madden

30.“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

31.“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Tim Ferriss

32. “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard

33. “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar

34. “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can´t have it. – Robert Anthony

35. “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Gary Player 

36. “You`ve got to bumble forward into the unknown.” – Frank Gehry

37. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” – Victor Kiam

38. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

39. “The dreamers are the saviors of the world.” – James Allen

40. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” – Henry David Thoreau 

41. “Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” – Russell Warren

42. “Someday is not a day of the week.” – Denise Brennan-Nelson

43. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

44. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” – Ben Hogan

45. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman 

46. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

47. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King

48. “Action is the foundational key to all success. – Pablo Picasson

49. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

50. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold Palmer

51. “If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.” – Mario Andretti

53. “More often than not, successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” 

54. “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” – David Livingston

55. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? – Joe Namath

56. “I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.” — Zane Grey

57. “Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda

58. “Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.” – Ted Williams

59. “Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.”  – Scott Reed

60. “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” – Jim Rohn 

61. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

63. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

64. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

65. “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” – Howard Ruff 

66. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester

67. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan 

68. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein

69. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. – John Wooden

70. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” — E. E. Cummings

71. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

72. “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.” – George Carlin

73. “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” – Richard Bach

74. “I dwell in possibility.” — Emily Dickinson

75. “A No. 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.” — Joyce Meyer

76. “Light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

77. “There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstance to meet. – Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr.

78. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryun

79. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

80. “Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you are DONE.” – Unknown

81. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

82. “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” – Cherie Gilderbloom

83. “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.
– Washington Irving

84. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve

85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsh 

86. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot

87. “When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” – Mary Kay Ash

88. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

89. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee

90. “Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” – Arthur Christopher Benson

92. “The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up.” – Harrison Ford

93. “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey 

94. “If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a year-inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else.”– Chinese proverb

95. “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey

96. “It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you.” – Lillian Hellman

97. “The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.” – Voltaire 

98. “Don’t be afraid your life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin.” – Grace Hansen

99. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”– Albert Einstein

100. “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”– Corazon Aquino

101. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden

102. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”– Reinhold Niebuhr

103. “Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” — Malala Yousafzai 

104. “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.” — Thomas Jefferson

105. “All you need is the plan, the road map, andthe courage to press on to your destination.” — Earl Nightingale

106. “The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” —Bertrand Russell

107. “Success… seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

108. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman

109. “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

110. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe ,then you’ll be successful.”
– Eric Thomas 

111. “Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.” –
Unknown 

113. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”– Viktor Frankl

114. “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

115. “Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.” – Spryte Loriano

117. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” – Sigmund Freud

118.”Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.” – Unknown

119.”Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. – Stephen R. Covey 

120.”Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. – Henry Ward Beecher

121. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein

122. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.”
– John Milton

123. “Falling in love is not a choice.  To stay in love is.” – Unknown

124. “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein

125. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bil Keane

126. “One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

126. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” – Stephen Covey

127. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernhard Shaw 

128. “Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice.” –Anonymous

129. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

130. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Unknown

131. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

132. “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius 

133. “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

134. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius

135. “Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.” – J.C. Penny

136. “Hunger gives flavour to the food.” ― Amit Kalantri

137. “It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” — Amelia Barr