Top Inspirational Quotes Of All Time

Inspirational quotes can be a great motivator, but do they really work? Whether it’s a sentiment that echoes how you try to live your life or just the right words at the right time, motivational quotes can have a positive influence on your mood and drive to succeed.

The way you think and feel about yourself, your goals and expectations for the future, and how you interact with the world around you can all have a significant effect on your success (or failure). That’s why you see so many famous quotes about life, love, and success repeated time and time again.

1. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela
2. “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing” — Walt Disney
3. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney
4. “If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor” — Eleanor Roosevelt
5. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. -Steve Jobs
6. “When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it” — Jim Rohn
7. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -Eleanor Roosevelt

1. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart” — Helen Keller
2. 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
3. “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
4. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. -James Cameron
5. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined” — Henry David Thoreau

1. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. -John Lennon
2. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. -Mother Teresa
3. “Develop an ‘Attitude of gratitude.’ Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you” — Brain Tracy
4. When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. -Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. “Take action. An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention” — Steve Maraboli
6. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. -Margaret Mead
7. “I cam not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions” — Stephen Covey
8. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson

1. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game” — Babe Ruth
2. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
3. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you” — Walt Whitman
4. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin
5. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
2. “Try not to become a person of success, but rather, try to become a person of value” — Albert Einstein
3. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle
4. “Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals” — Michelle Obama
5. Whoever is happy will make others happy too. -Anne Frank
6. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why” — Mark Twain
7. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples” — Mother Teresa

1. You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated. -Maya Angelou
2. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great” — John D. Rockefeller
3. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandela
4. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up” — Thomas A. Edison
5. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln
6. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient” — Gurbaksh Chahal
7. Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. -Babe Ruth
8. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity” — Amelia Earhart

1. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Helen Keller
2. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great” — Zig Ziglar
3. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison
4. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
5. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” — Winston S. Churchill
6. Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. -Marilyn Monroe
7. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” — Wayne Gretzky
8. Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie
9. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. -Robert Frost
10. “Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all we can be” — Zig Ziglar
11. Love the life you live. Live the life you love. -Bob Marley
12. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure” — Colin Powell
13. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Helen Keller
14. “People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy” — Tony Robbins
15. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
16. “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 the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” — Mark Twain
17. Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. -Charles Dickens
18. “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful” — Eric Thomas
19. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. -Steve Jobs

1. “If you look really closely, most overnight successes took a long time” — Steve Jobs
2. Life is trying things to see if they work. -Ray Bradbury
3. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear” — George Addair
4. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. -Thomas A. Edison
5. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear” — Rosa Parks

1. Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston S. Churchill
2. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” — Henry David Thoreau
3. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau
4. “For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded” — Jack Canfield
5. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. -Walt Disney
6. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have” — Thomas Jefferson
7. If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. -Steve Jobs
8. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn
9. The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. -John D. Rockefeller Jr.
10. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning” — Gloria Steinem
11. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -Thomas Jefferson

1. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” — C.S. Lewis
2. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. -Barack Obama
3. “A bad attitude is like a flat tire; if you don’t change it, you won’t go anywhere” — Joyce Meyer
4. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. -Wayne Gretzky
5. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success” — James Cameron
6. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. -Henry Ford
7. “You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine” — John C. Maxwell
8. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. -Rosa Parks
9. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” — Eleanor Roosevelt
10. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. -Mother Teresa
11. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible” — Tony Robbins
12. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’ -Audrey Hepburn
13. “I think goals should never be easy; they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time” — Michael Phelps

1. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand
2. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose” — Dr. Seuss
3. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started” — Mark Twain
5. “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin” — Tony Robbins
6. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt
7. “Life is never fair. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not” — Oscar Wilde
8. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans” — John Lennon
10. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou
11. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years” — Abraham Lincoln
12. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” -Mother Teresa
13. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart
15. “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on” — Robert Frost
16. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair
17. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too” — Anne Frank
18. “Dream big and dare to fail.” -Norman Vaughan
19. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier” — Mother Teresa

1. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” -Beverly Sills
2. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy” — Dalai Lama
3. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” -Charles Swindoll
4. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” -Audrey Hepburn
5. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about” — Marilyn Monroe
6. “Love the life you live. Live the life you love” — Bob Marley
7. . “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” -Henry Ford
8. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere” — Barack Obama

1. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” -Rosa Parks
2. “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale” — Hans Christian Anderson
3. “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
4. “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
5. “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 the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” — Mark Twain
6. “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