50 inspirational quotes to motivate you

Great quotes can be inspiring and motivating. You can use quotes to guide your decisions in life, work and love. Here are 50 of the best inspirational quotes to motivate you:

1. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I am possible”! — Audrey Hepburn
2. 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
3. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
4. Perfection is not attainable, but if we pursue perfection, we can capture excellence. –Vince Lombardi
5. Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
6. When you look at what you have in life, you always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you will never have enough. — Oprah Winfrey
7. None of us are as smart as all of us. –Ken Blanchard
8. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. –Jimmy Dean
9. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
10. Use your head to deal with yourself; to deal with others, use your heart. — Eleanor Roosevelt
11. Too many of us don’t live our dreams because we live our fears. –Les Brown
12. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. –Helen Keller
13. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. — Napoleon Hill
14. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you haven’t done than by the things you have done, so throw out the bowlines, sail from the safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore Dream Discover. — Mark Twain
15. I’ve missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I was entrusted to take the winning shot and missed. I have failed time and time again in my life. And that’s why I succeed. — Michael Jordan
16. Don’t strive to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
17. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
18. If everything seems to be going against you, remember that the plane takes off against the wind, not downwind. –Henry Ford
19. The most common way people give up their power is to think they have none. –Alice Walker
20. The hardest part is the decision to act, the rest is just persistence. — Amelia Earhart
21. Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision, the ability to direct individual performance towards the goals of the organization. It is the fuel that enables ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results. –Andrew Carnegie
22. Don’t judge every day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson
23. The real chance of success lies in the person and not the job. — ZigZiglar
24. Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale
25. There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. What grows quickly withers just as quickly. What grows slowly, persists. –Josiah Gilbert Holland
26. Don’t be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. — William James
27. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. — Farrah Gray
28. Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a great stroke of luck. — Dalai Lama
29. Creativity cannot be exhausted. The more you use, the more you have. — Maya Angelou
30. I’ve learned over the years that when one has made a decision, it reduces anxiety. — Rose Parks
31. I’d rather die of passion than of boredom. — Vincent van Gogh
32. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. — Unknown
33. A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. –Albert Einstein
34. What is Money? A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and does what he wants to do in between. — Bob Dylan
35. I have been impressed by the urgency of doing it. Knowing is not enough; we have to apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo daVinci
36. If you want to elevate yourself, elevate someone else. — Booker T. Washington
37. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I wouldn’t have any talent left and could say, I’ve used everything you’ve given me. –Erma Bombeck
38. The fastest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket. — Will Rogers
39. Certain things catch the eye, but strive only for those things that capture the heart. — Old Indian proverb
40. When I hear someone sigh, “Life is hard,” I’m always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” – Sydney Harris
41. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it. –Confucius
42. Feed your mind with great thoughts. Believing in the heroic makes heroes. –Benjamin Disraeli
43. 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
44. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. –Ronald Reagan
46. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. —George Addair
47. 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. -Plato
48. Nothing will work unless you do it. — Maya Angelou
49. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone over the water to cause many ripples. -Mother Theresa
50. What we achieve inwardly will change the outer reality. —Plutarch