Make significant changes in your life right now with the help of these motivational quotes. Get inspired by these uplifting and inspirational quotes.
These motivational quotes will encourage you to keep going, even if you’re having a rough day and need some motivation to remind you that everything is okay or you just need a goal for the day. Changes can be less or more important as per your wish.
You can even find an inspirational quote from someone – a film star, an intellectual, Beyoncé, a 17th-century writer – that speaks to your motivation and determination. Here are the top motivational quotes for 2023.
short inspirational quotes
“Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
— Vince Lombardi
“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.”
— Madonna
“We have to let go of who we think we should be and embrace what is.”
— Achea Redd
“Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness.”
— Selena Gomez
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
— Sir Francis Bacon
“I don’t look ahead. I’m right here with you. It’s a good way to be.”
— Danny DeVito
“There’s nothing more powerful than not giving a f—k.”
— Amy Schumer
“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”
—William Ellery Channing
“When it comes to luck, you make your own.”
— Bruce Springsteen
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one!”
— Dolly Parton
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
— Rosa Parks
inspirational quotes about life
“The moral of my story is the sun always comes out after the storm. Being optimistic and surrounding yourself with positive loving people is for me, living life on the sunny side of the street.”
— Janice Dean
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.”
— Dr. Henry Link
“The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift.”
— L. A. Villafane
“You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.”
— Amy Poehler
“Don’t be afraid. Because you’re going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don’t be afraid.”
— Joan Jett
“Spread love everywhere you go.”
— Mother Teresa
“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.”
— Lady Gaga
“If you make your internal life a priority, then everything else you need on the outside will be given to you and it will be extremely clear what the next step is.”
— Gabrielle Bernstein
“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.”
— Mandy Hale
inspirational quotes about life
“You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.”
— Kesha
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We need to take risks. We need to go broke. We need to prove them wrong, simply by not giving up.”
— Awkwafina
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts today.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come.”
— Ellen DeGeneres
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied.”
— Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“Nobody built like you, you design yourself.”
— Jay-Z
“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures.”
— Joelle Speranza
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein “Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.”
— Beyoncé
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“I tell myself, ‘You’ve been through so much, you’ve endured so much, time will allow me to heal, and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete, and mother I am today.”‘
— Serena Williams
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.”
— Camilla Eyring Kimball
“I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.”
— Brene Brown
“I’m going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn’t promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It’s the only thing I can help. If I didn’t have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?”
— Hayley Williams
“I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this.”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Knock Down The House
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
— William James
inspirational quotes for work
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
— Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society
“I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.”
— Ava DuVernay
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
— Aristotle
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'”
— Audrey Hepburn
Inspirational quote from Alexander the Great
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“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”
— Alexander the Great
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
— Michael Altshuler
“Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.”
— Nicole Kidman
“Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.”
— Marie Forleo
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”-Theodore Roosevelt
