50 Inspirational Quotes That Motivate You

We all need the words of wisdom. They give us encouragement and reassurance. We must realize that everything we do today is a new chance to live healthier and to be the best version of ourselves.

Here is the list of 50 inspirational quotes that will help you overcome obstacles and stay positive. 

  1. Happiness is not something ready made.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
  2. Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. --Albert Einstein
  3. It takes a long time to become young. –Pablo Picasso
  4. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
  5. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
  6. We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. –May Lamberton Becker
  7. One changes from day to day… every few years one becomes a new being. –George Sand
  8. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
  9. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
  10. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar
  11. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
  12. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
  13. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost
  14. 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
  15. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
  16. The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha
  17. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
  18. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
  19. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
  20. 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
  21. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
  22. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  23. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
  24. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau
  25. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
  26. 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
  27. 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. –Helen Keller
  28. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius
  29. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
  30. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
  31. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb
  32. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
  33. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
  34. All progress takes place outside the comfort zone. --Michael John Bobak
  35. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
  36. 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
  37. You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
  38. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.
  39. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
  40. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins
  41. 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. –Mae Jemison
  42. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
  43. 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. –Michael Jordan
  44. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
  45. Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse
  46. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. --Winston Churchill
  47. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
  48. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
  49. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin
  50. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh