Best Inspirational Quotes

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Dream it. Believe it. Build it.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

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.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Dream big and dare to fail.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

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.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

You become what you believe.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

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.

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.

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.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

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.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.

The best revenge is massive success.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

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.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

An unexamined life is not worth living.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

We become what we think about.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

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.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.