Top 100 Inspirational Quotes (2023)

In my new ebook365 inspirational quotes: daily motivation for your best year ever, I share the quotes that inspired me when I started my business, wrote my books, and raised my children. In the spirit of self-motivation, here are my 100 most inspirational quotes.

1. Life is about making a difference, not about earning an income. -Kevin Kruse

2. All that the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleonberg

3. Don't strive to be a success, strive for value. -Albert Einstein

4. Two roads diverged in a forest and I - I took the one less traveled and that made all the difference. -Robert Frost

5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or accepted an apology. -Florence Nightingale

6. You miss 100% of the shots you miss. —Wayne Gretzky

7. I missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I lost almost 300 games. 26 times I was trusted to make the winning shot and I missed. I have failed several times in my life. And that's why I'm successful. -Michael Jordan

8. The hardest thing is deciding to act, the rest is just persistence. -Amelia Earhart

9. Every hit brings me closer to the next home run. -Babe Ruth

10. Clarity of purpose is the starting point of all performance. -Ç. Clemens Stein

11. Life is not about winning and having, it's about giving and being. -Kevin Kruse

12. Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. -John Lennon

13. We become what we think about. – Count Nightingale

14. Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the things you did, so throw off the bow ropes, sail from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails a. Discover, dream, discover. -Mark Twain

15. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% my reaction to it. -Charles Swindoll

16. Most of the time people give up their power thinking they don't have it. – Alice Walker

17. The mind is everything. What do you think it will become. -Buddha

18. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. -Chinese proverb

19. An unexamined life is not worth living. -Socrates

20. Eighty percent of success appears. -Woody Allen

21. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. -Steve Jobs

22. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. – Vince Lombardi

23. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my choices. -Stephen Covey

24. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when you grow up. - Pablo Picasso

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

26. 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

27. Either you rule the day or the day rules you. -Jim Rohn

28. Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right. -Henry Ford

29. The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you found out why. -Mark Twain

30. Whatever you can or dream of doing, start doing it. Daring has genius, power and magic in him. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

31. The best revenge is massive success. -Frank Sinatra

32. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Not even a bath. That's why we recommend daily. – Zig Ziglar

33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. –Anais Nin

34. If you hear a voice inside you saying, "You can't paint," then paint and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh

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

36. Ask and it will be given to you; Seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. -Jesus

37. The only person you should become is the person you choose to be. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. Walk confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. -Henry David Thoreau

39. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I hope I don't have an ounce of talent left and can say that I've used everything you've given me. –Erma Bombeck

40. Few things can help a person more than giving them responsibility and letting them know you trust them. –Booker T.Washington

41. Certain things catch your eye, but only pursue those that capture the heart. – Old Indian proverb

42. Believe you can and you'll be halfway there. -Theodore Roosevelt

43. Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair

44. 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

45. Teach your tongue to say, "I don't know," and you will progress. – Maimonides

46. ​​​Start where you are. Use what you have. do what you can -Arthur Ashe

47. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness is the key to life. When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life. -John Lennon

48. Fall down seven times and get up eight times. – Japanese proverb

49. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but many times we look at the closed door for so long that we don't see the door that opened for us. -Helen Keller

50. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it. -Confucius

51. How wonderful that no one needs to wait a single moment before starting to make the world a better place. -Anne Frank

52. When I let go of what I am, I become what I could be. -Lao Tzu

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

54. Happiness is not over. This comes from your own actions. - Dalai Lama

55. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask which seat! Just come in. —Sheryl Sandberg

56. First, have a clear and definite practical ideal; a goal, a goal. Second, you must have the means to achieve your goals. wisdom, money, materials and methods. Third, direct all your means to that end. -Aristotle

57. When the wind doesn't help, take the oars. – Latin proverb

58. You can't fall if you don't climb. But there is no joy in spending your whole life on the ground. -Unknown

59. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that, at any cost, that thing must be achieved. - Marie Curie

60. Many of us don't live our dreams because we live our fears. – Les Brown

61. Challenges make life interesting and overcoming them makes life meaningful. –Joshua J Marine

62. If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up. –Booker T.Washington

63. I was overwhelmed by the urgency to do something. knowledge is not enough; we have to apply. Being ready is not enough; We must do. - Leonardo da Vinci

64. Restrictions only live in our minds. But when we use our imagination, our possibilities become limitless. -Jamie Paolinetti

65. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, it's nobody's fault. —Erica Jong

66. What is money? A man is successful when he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and does what he wants in between. -Bob Dylan

67. I failed the test. I just found 100 ways to get it wrong. -Benjamin Franklin

68. To succeed, your desire to succeed must be greater than your fear of failure. -Bill Cosby

69. A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

70. The person who says it can't be done must not interrupt the person doing it. -Chinese proverb

71. There are no traffic jams in the extra mile. -Roger Staubach

72. It's never too late to be what you could have been. - George Elliot

73. You become what you believe in. -Oprah Winfrey

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74. I'd rather die of passion than boredom. -Vincent Van Gogh

75. A truly wealthy man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. -Unknown

76. Not what you do for your children, but what you teach them to do for themselves will make them successful. -Ann Landers

77. If you want your kids to be good, spend twice as much time with them and half the money. —Abigail Van Buren

78. Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs. - Farrah Gray

79. The battles that count are not for gold medals. The struggles within you - the unseen struggles within us all - that's what it's all about. -Jesse Owens

80. Education costs money. But also ignorance. – Mr. Claus Moser

81. Over the years, I've learned that making a choice reduces anxiety. -Pink Parks

82. It doesn't matter how slow you drive, as long as you don't stop. -Confucius

83. If you look at what you have in life, there will always be more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. -Oprah Winfrey

84. Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. - Dalai Lama

85. Creativity cannot be exhausted. The more you use, the more you have. - Maya Angelou

86. Dream big and dare to fail. -Norman Vaughan

87. Our lives begin to end the day we are silent about important things. -Martin Luther King Jr.

88. Do what you can, wherever you are, with what you've got. – Teddy Roosevelt

89. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. -Tony Robbins

90. After all, dreaming is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem

91. It's your place in the world; It's your life. Go ahead and do what you can and make the life you want to live. -Mother Jemison

92. You may be disappointed when you fail, but you're lost if you don't try. —Beverly Sills

93. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt

94. Life is what we make of it, always has been and always will be. – Grandma Moses

95. The question isn't who will leave me; he is the one who will stop me. - Ayn Rand

96. When the odds seem against you, remember that the plane is taking off into the wind, not with it. -Henry Ford

97. It's not the years in your life that count. It's life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

98. Change your thoughts and you will change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

99. Write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. -Benjamin Franklin

100. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I am possible!" -Audrey Hepburn

101. The only way to do good work is to love what you do. -Steve Jobs

102. If you can dream it, you can do it. – Zig Ziglar

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