Inspirational and Motivational Quotes

An inspiring quote may be just what you need to turn your day around.  Here are 25 of the most inspiring quotes ever spoken or written.

25 Inspiring Quotes:

I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

–Muhammad Ali

“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.”
–Robert Anthony

“There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.”

–Henry Ford

“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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

–Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee

“It’s not about time, it’s about choices. How are you spending your choices?”

–Beverly Adamo

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

“That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking—why the hell not?  – Why not you, why not now…”

–Timothy Ferriss

“Intolerance of your present creates your future.”

–Mike Murdock

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

 “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
–Vince Lombardi

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
–E.E. Cummings

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

“How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
–Trina Paulus

“Do not let what you can not do; interfere with what you can do.”
–John Wooden

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

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

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

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.  For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.”
–Charles De Gaulle

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

–John Milton

“You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.”
–Wallace D. Wattles

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

–Spryte Loriano

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

Positive Motivational Quotes

"When the why is strong, the how becomes easy." -Lou Radja 

"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare." -Georgia O'Keeffe

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." – Norman Vincent Peale

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake..." – Marie Beyon Ray

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”– Albert Einstein
“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”– Christopher Columbus

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we took so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened up for us.”– Helen Keller

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”– Christopher Reeve

“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”– Thomas A Edison

“Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.” – Patrick Overton

“Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.”– Melba Colgrove

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is time to break through the barriers that have held you back and held you down for such a long time. It is time to reach out and indelibly etch your place in history.”– Greg Hickman

“I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.”– Mother Teresa
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”– Woody Allen

“A person hears only what they understand.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.”– Eckhart Tolle

“Have the daring to accept yourself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the game of making the most of your best.”– Henry Emerson Fosdick

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”– Marcel Proust

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“There is destiny that makes us brothers; no man goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”– Edwin Markham

“Joy is not in things it is in us.”– Richard Wagner

“Love is a faith that God is on your side, that miracles start happening everyday and are not taken for granted and should be lived in this way.”– Gary Wollrich

“There will come a time when, after harnessing the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the power of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.”– Pierre Tielhard de Chardin

"One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” - Claude M. Bristol