120 Inspirational Quotes For Motivation

In a world filled with daily challenges and constant demands, we often find ourselves seeking that extra boost of motivation to keep us going. Whether you're striving to meet personal goals, enhance your professional life, or simply need a pick-me-up to get through the day, a well-timed quote can make all the difference. We’ve compiled a curated collection of the top 120 inspirational quotes to fuel your spirit and reignite your passion. These words of wisdom from thought leaders, authors, and visionaries are sure to provide the encouragement you need to persevere and achieve greatness. Dive in and let these powerful quotes inspire your journey to success.

1. “The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” - George Bernard Shaw

2. “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” - Samuel Beckett

3. “Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.” - Antonio Machado

4. “The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” - Vincent Van Gogh

5. “The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.” - Bruce Lee

6. “Consider me no fool because my tongue is mad. I salt a truth with jest that it sound not dull and heavy. There is more than jig and cadence in my words. I am of stronger fiber than you think. If there comes a time for proof I shall not fail.” - Charles S. Brooks

7. “I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything.” - Raul Seixas

8. “Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?” - Betty Friedan

9. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” - Abraham Lincoln

10. “If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

11. “It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?” - Henry David Thoreau

12. “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.” - Henry David Thoreau

13. “But what Tyler longed for was to have The Feeling arrive; when every flicker of light that touched the dipping branches of a weeping willow, every breath of breeze that bent the grass towards the row of apple trees, every shower of yellow ginko leaves dropping to the ground with such direct and tender sweetness, would fill the minister with profound and irreducible knowledge that God was right there.” - Elizabeth Strout

14. “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.” - Margaret Walker

15. “Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live.” - Anais Nin

16. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” - Rabindranath Tagore

17. “If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.” - Elie Wiesel

18. “Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.” - Pastor Jerry L. Lewis

19. “Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.” - S.M. Stirling

20. “Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.” - Max Ehrmann

21. “A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as feisty; we are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together...Layers, by their nature, are fragile things.” - Deb Caletti

22. “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” - Mother Teresa

23. “How could there be a stone unturned in the quest to understand your life's purpose? So many well entrenched systems already exist and some have done so for thousands of years. Still we are all inquisitive creatures by nature and I aim to feed your voracious appetite and stoke the ever-burning fires of controversy by introducing you to Life Cycles."After all you cannot be a quiet revolutionary.” - Neil Killion

24. “Perspective is everything.” - Deborah Froese

25. “Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win.” - Steve Maraboli

26. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” - Steve Maraboli

27. “The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.” - Steve Maraboli

28. “It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.” - Steve Maraboli

29. “...And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.” - Neal Shusterman

30. “The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.” - Stefan Waydenfeld

31. “Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.” - Adam Young

32. “Jim [Henson] had written letters to his five children to be opened only after his death. Brian read from his. Jim wrote, 'Be good to each other. Love and forgive everybody.' I remembered Jim telling me that he never wasted energy on hating anybody; he had too much thinking to do.” - Caroll Spinney

33. “Don't give life to regrets and live on ifs and only, when you can no more unscramble an egg than change the past.” - Nadia Janice Brown

34. “After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.” - Kelly Cutrone

35. “...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.” - Thomas Jefferson

36. “Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds.” - Byron

37. “You gotta be in the NOW to create and experience the WOW!” - Steve Maraboli

38. “There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.” - Madeleine L'Engle

39. “I found you.No one can keep us apart now,and our love will now be the story told to define how sacred love is” - Jamie Magee

40. “Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. ” - Peter Anderson

41. “We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” - Alan Turing

42. “please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.” - Stephen Chbosky

43. “This world is not a playground where children at play are pampered by friendly nannies.” - Wendelin Wiedeking

44. “I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your self-consciousness, you can’t really be present in a situation. For example, if you’re at The Louvre, but you’re thinking about how much you hate your jeans, you’re not really at The Louvre. So in your memory, when you look back, you’re always going to be like, “I was wearing those jeans I hated”. And you’re not going to remember anything else.” - Christina Ricci

45. “When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?” - Steve Maraboli

46. “Sometimes a person can find theirself lost in the barren deserts of life. The only way out of these deserts is to stay...positive. They can wander through them for a day or forty Years...It's completely their choice.” - Timothy Pina

47. “Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.” - Deb Caletti

48. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.” - Matthew Kelly

49. “True intimacy with God always brings humility.” - Beth Moore

50. “Tragedy will either destroy you or turn your life around.” - Timothy Pina

51. “...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?” - Jane Goodall

52. “Do all you can to help others in need & when you're finish doing it...do it again!” - Timothy Pina

53. “The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.” - Steve Maraboli

54. “My job was to make sure that my pain was not visible to the audience. They came to escape their troubles, not to be drawn into my own pain.” - Scott Hamilton

55. “Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!” - C. JoyBell C.

56. “Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.” - C. JoyBell C.

57. “Kematangan tak datang dengan bertambahnya usia. Kematangan bermula dengan sikap menerima tanggungjawab” - Salina Ibrahim

58. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” - George E. Woodberry

59. “Take The Walk is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is about discovering the greatness of individuals as they use what they already have to touch the lives of the dying, sick and poor. It is about normal people with careers, families, and responsibilities, asking 'How can what I already do and what I already am make a difference in lives half a world away?” - Hanson

60. “You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.” - Kirsten Hubbard

61. “Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author.” - Steve Maraboli

62. “Reading is what you need to do, not what you have to do...” - Ginanjar Teguh Iman

63. “Ev’n the sick and the poor deserve healthcare. Ev’n the sick and the poor deserve respect.” - T.R. Graves

64. “Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.” - David Levithan

65. “Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.” - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

66. “The one thing we truly don't  understand about God, about Life, and about Humanity is that we are ONE!✌” - Timothy Pina

67. “Hope springs forever.” - J.K. Rowling

68. “No te averguences por lo que otros, más cobardes y más ciegos, opinen de ti. Porque esa es su debilidad, no la tuya” - Marisa Rubio

69. “If you have the goods, life's too short to wait. Hidden gold is lost gold. The world should not be denied an opportunity to touch the collective imagination. To those who deny both the world and themselves, their larder deserves absolute obscurity. For those who share, obscurity is relative and a spark remains to keep the embers warm.” - Edward C. Patterson

70. “But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.” - Jon Krakauer

71. “No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.” - Minor White

72. “We are in the monsoons and we must weather it out - the way of wisdom is, instead of pining for calmer days, to learn to live wisely and well in the midst of continuous strain.” - Elton Trueblood

73. “Trust your passion, identify your dreams, and find the courage to share them with others, no matter how many times they call you a fool.” - bill strickland

74. “I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.” - Jean Ingelow

75. “❤Speak up, spread the word, take a pledge, take action...we can all do something to try and end the abuse of bullying!” - Timothy Pina

76. “One can never know the full extent of what didn't happen.” - Michael R. Krozer

77. “WE ARE the PULSE of the TIMES!” - Carrie White

78. “Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.” - A Gentlemen

79. “Happiness is a journey, not a journey's end.” - Ogwo David Emenike

80. “For what it's worth, I think happiness is a fleeting condition, not a permanent state of goddamn mind. I've learned that if you chase after moments of bliss here and there, sometimes those moments will sustain you through the shit.” - Tiffanie DeBartolo

81. “I'm an idiot like you said, so whatever you say about me doesn't matter, but you know... Don't you dare point a gun at your own brother!” - Kazue Kato

82. “The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come.And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does.” - Robin Sharma

83. “Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.” - Christopher Earle

84. “For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.” - Randy Alcorn

85. “Right now fear, doubt, anxiety, tension and disharmony are reigning supreme.But there shall come a time when this world of ours will be flooded with peace.Who is going to bring about this radical change?It will be you: you and your sisters and brothers.You and your oneness-heart will spread peace throughout the length and breadth of the world.” - Sri Chinmoy

86. “Not what happens to youBut how you accept itIs of paramount importance.” - Sri Chinmoy

87. “Freedom cannot be won by the sword, or held by the ballot. It exists only in the minds of men.” - Paul Guildea

88. “Can I change the world? Only my piece of it.” - Michel Templet

89. “Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.” - Marian Wright Edelman

90. “To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.” - Virginia Woolf

91. “Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity.” - Skyla Madi

92. “May Light always surround you;Hope kindle and rebound you.May your Hurts turn to Healing;Your Heart embrace Feeling.May Wounds become Wisdom;Every Kindness a Prism.May Laughter infect you;Your Passion resurrect you.May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires.Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire.” - D. Simone

93. “INTELLIGENCE 1ST!!!” - TYLON RODGERS

94. “Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.” - Jim Collins

95. “Celebrate your victories! Be verbal about it. Haters will say you're bragging, but those who love you will celebrate with you.” - Steve Maraboli

96. “Walking was a habit he'd been unwilling to give up. He couldn't see the point in shutting himself up in a vehivle any more often than he had to, doing damage to the earth and the air in order to avoid using his body. People did just that all the time, though. Most claimed they needed to save time. It was true they had little enough of that-- their lives were so soon ended. But Nathan didn't see them treating time as precious otherwise. They'd sit in their cars at a fast-food place for fifteen minutes when it would be quicker to park and go inside. No, he blamed the modern culture of urgency. Only the most urgent sensations, emotions, and situations were considered important. They called it living life to the fullest. Not surprisingly, many sought numbness in alcohol or the pervasive voyeurism of reality TV while others tried to live a perpetual peak experience through drugs, sex, or celebrity. Ordinary lives, ordinary living had little value. Nathan thought people needed to wash dishes by hand sometimes. Prepare their own meals more often. And take walks.” - Eileen Wilks

97. “Henny Penny," says Lupe. "Do you know this story?"I shake my head. Conversations with her can turn cryptic in the blink of an eye."She thinks the sky is falling. Do you see my meaning?""Not really.""Sometimes you have to let the world end, so you can build a new one.” - Leanne Hall

98. “Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.” - Simone de Beauvoir

99. “Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.” - Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

100. “Your health is what you make of it. Everything you do and think either adds to the vitality, energy and spirit you possess or takes away from it.” - Ann Wigmore

101. “It's Through Our Pain we gain strength.” - Angela Y. Hodge

102. “—Y hay más. Tan pronto no van a cortar tu planta de naranja-lima. Cuando la corten estarás lejos y no sentirás nada. Sollozando me abracé a sus rodillas.—Ya no me interesa, papá. No me interesa… Y mirando su rostro, que también se encontraba lleno de lágrimas, murmuré como un muerto:—Ya la cortaron, papá, hace más de una semana que cortaron mi planta de naranja-lima. Los años pasaron, mi querido Manuel Valadares. Hoy tengo cuarenta y ocho años y, a veces, en mi nostalgia, siento la impresión de que continúo siendo una criatura. Que en cualquier momento vas a aparecer trayéndome fotos de artistas de cine o más bolitas. Tú fuiste quien me enseñó la ternura de la vida, mi Portuga querido. Hoy soy yo el que tiene que distribuir las bolitas y las figuritas, porque la vida sin ternura no vale gran cosa. A veces soy feliz en mi ternura, a veces me engaño, lo que es más común.En aquel tiempo… En el tiempo de nuestro tiempo no sabía que muchos años antes un Príncipe Idiota, arrodillado frente a un altar, preguntaba a los iconos, con los ojos llenos de lágrimas:“¿POR QUÉ LES CUENTAN LAS COSAS A LAS CRIATURITAS?”Y la verdad es, mi querido Portuga, que a mí me contaron las cosas demasiado pronto.¡Adiós!” - Jose Mauro De Vasconcelos

103. “Everyone doesn't have to do everything," she told me. "People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging things created by other people, things I could never make or do. I wouldn't trade that for anything.” - Will Schwalbe

104. “Patience slows down time and more can happen when time is slowed down. That’s the secret of patience.” - Art Hochberg

105. “I am going to show you great and mighty things which no one has ever seen before.... I am going to take you places where no one has ever been. I am going to take you to heights where no one has ever reached. If you will only come to me with all your heart, I will do a mighty work in you, which no man can undo but yourself.” - M. J. Chrisman

106. “Faith doesn't rely on odds or statistical data. God only requires that we have faith; the rest is up to him.” - Nancy Stephan

107. “Prayer is the time you spend alone with God.” - Art Hochberg

108. “Remind yourself often that self-esteem is ephemeral. You will have it, lose it, cultivate it, nurture it, and be forced to rebuild it over and over again.” - Cherie Carter-Scott

109. “Don't worry. It'll all come good in the end. Always does.” - Sarah Winman

110. “I can't say this strongly enough, but our feelings about ourselves are actually the most important barometer for determining the condition of our lives!” - Anita Moorjani

111. “In a universe of unlimited possibility and abundance, I had attracted what I was ready to receive.” - Donna Labermeier

112. “Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this day, for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors; if it may not, give us strength to endure that which is to come that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. We beseech of you this help and mercy for Christ's sake.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

113. “Sesekali, minta tolong nggak ada salahnya, kan?... Lagian itu bikin kamu kelihatan lebih manusiawai.” - Windhy Puspitadewi

114. “hope is a good thing, and good things never die!” - Stephen King

115. “It is a measure of a nation their cunning! It is a measure of a nation their strength! And it is a measure of a nation," I leaned forward and screeched, "their mercy!" I leaned back and surveyed the crowd and for some bizarre reason kept right on shouting. The condemned you see before you have been tried justly and meet their sentence fairly. They have done wrong and they will pay for it. But I am not the Winter Princess of a nation who does not see that even the condemned deserve to be treated with respect as they face death. You may think they do not deserve it but it is your duty as Lunwynians to rise above their actionsnot fall to their depths. They will hang for their crimes and you will watch this sentence carried out.How could that not be enough for you?"I tore my eyes away from the now whispering crowd as those close sent my words far,feeling Frey’s arm still tight around my middle but I ignored it and looked down at the scaffold.Bring her to her feet,” I ordered the guardstanding around Viola and they shifted andstared up at me in stupefaction so I snapped,“ Bring her to her feet!”They jumped toward Viola who I avoidedlooking at as they helped her up and movedher to her noose. Instead, I looked back tothe crowd and, yep, you guessed it, kept right on shouting."Today, you witness something infinitely sad. Three people who have gone wrong somewhere in their lives, done wrong be-cause of it and therefore are paying the ulti-mate price. Do not stand there shouting and jeering, demonstrating that they were right to move against this great nation, those for-tunate enough to inhabit her ice-bound earth and those privileged to wear her crowns.Stand there and, as the Lunwynians I know you to be, stand strong, stand proud and stand filled with mercy.” - Kristen Ashley

116. “It's odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn't know who I was. Then I invented someone and became her. Then I began to like what I invented. And finally I was what I was again..."Anna Quindlen” - Anna Quindlen

117. “The process of becoming great comprises of life’s toughest difficulties, that 99% people quit in the beginning itself, but the one who survives mark his/her name in the pages of History and called as the greatest human.Moral: When you face the toughest difficulties in life, do not frustrate, be calm and happy thinking you’re chosen by the ALMIGHTY. But before rewarding you something worthwhile, the ALMIGHTY will test you so badly just to make sure whether you can handle extreme of the extreme pressure or not. The positive test result proves that you’re capable of handling SUCCESS and a true owner of the blissful life. Be confident and never ever quit, keep walking the way of your dreams. It just needs one bloody day to change it all.” - Harshal Gondane

118. “Tako sem se naučil,da je pomembno to, kar je v notranjosti, ne glede na to, kako čudovit je zunanji svet. In če je tvoj notranji svet neurejen in nezdrav, te ne bo osrečilo nič, kar dobiš zunaj. Če pa je tvoj notranji svet zdrav in izpolnjen, ti bodo najpreprostejše in najosnovnejše reči v zunanjem svetu napolnile srce in dušo.” - Robin S. Sharma

119. “Sin oscuridad no habría sueños.” - Karla Kuban

120. “I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows what they want.” - Mark Twain