100 Inspirational Quotes to Keep You Motivated Everyday

August 3, 2022 • 7 min read

You can become more inspired after reading these inspirational quotes, but that is only the beginning. Save this page to your favorites or highlight with Glasp, so you can refer to it when you need a little additional inspiration. You have what it takes to overcome any obstacles you may encounter.

These inspirational quotes might serve as a helpful reminder as you work toward a challenging goal or finish a job. The most crucial thing to keep in mind is that you will be your own best source of motivation. Get out there and get what you deserve.

If you're ready, let’s move on.

Inspirational Quotes

  1. "Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." — Mother Teresa

  2. "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." — Anne Frank

  3. "You can overcome anything, if and only if, you love something enough." — Lionel Messi

  4. "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." — Mother Teresa

  5. "The future depends on what you do today." — Mahatma Gandhi

  6. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." — Thomas Edison

  7. "Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five." — Benjamin Franklin

  8. "The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well." —John D. Rockefeller Jr.

  9. "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." — Carl Bard

  10. "Simple can be harder than complex You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains." — Steve Jobs

  11. "Peace begins with a smile." — Mother Teresa

  12. "Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work." — Henry Ford

  13. "If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse." — Walt Disney

  14. "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration." — Thomas Edison

  15. "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." — Thomas Edison

  16. "Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults." — Benjamin Franklin

  17. "It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving." —Mother Teresa

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  18. "Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  19. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." — Henry Ford

  20. "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

  21. "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." — Rosa Parks

  22. "Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see." — Confucius

  23. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." — Mahatma Gandhi

  24. "When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." —Carol Burnett

  25. "It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer." — Albert Einstein

  26. "I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." — Estée Lauder

  27. "The only TRUE wisdom is knowing that you know nothing." — Socrates

  28. "Winners never quit and quitters never win." — Vince Lombardi

  29. "You become what you believe." — Oprah Winfrey

  30. "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." —Franklin D. Roosevelt

  31. "You never fail until you stop trying." — Albert Einstein

  32. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." — Eleanor Roosevelt

  33. "There's a way to do it better - find it." — Thomas Edison

  34. "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  35. "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." — John C. Maxwell

  36. "Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start." — Simon Sinek

  37. "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle." — Abraham Lincoln

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  38. "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." — Mother Teresa

  39. "Vision without execution is just hallucination." — Henry Ford

  40. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." —Malala Yousafzai

  41. "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." — Benjamin Franklin

  42. "Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  43. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." — Henry David Thoreau

  44. "Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." — Helen Keller

  45. "Your eyes show the strength of your soul." — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  46. "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." — Albert Einstein

  47. "If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." —Napoleon Hill

  48. "If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time." — Steve Jobs

  49. "When you judge another, you do not define them; you define yourself." — Wayne Dyer

  50. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." — Dalai Lama

  51. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." — Ralph Nader

  52. "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence." — Albert Einstein

  53. "One of the signs of a great society is the diligence with which it passes culture from one generation to the next." — Winston Churchill

  54. "No one has ever become poor by giving." — Anne Frank

  55. "Life is a long lesson in humility." — James M. Barrie

  56. "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

  57. "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." — Beverly Sills

  58. "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." — Maya Angelou

  59. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." — Milton Berle

  60. "The best way to predict your future is to create it." — Abraham Lincoln

  61. "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." — Henry Ford

  62. "Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world." — Walt Disney

  63. "Eat to live, don't live to eat." — Benjamin Franklin

  64. "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." — Walt Disney

  65. "Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love." — Mother Teresa

  66. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." —Benjamin Franklin

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  67. "People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else." — Elon Musk

  68. "There is nothing impossible to they who will try." — Alexander the Great

  69. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — Nelson Mandela

  70. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." — Mae West

  71. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." —Confucius

  72. "Love the life you live. Live the life you love." — Bob Marley

  73. "Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare." — Walt Disney

  74. "The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity." — Ben Franklin

  75. "If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen." — Marissa Mayer

  76. "A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things." — Barack Obama

  77. "The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything." — Frank Sinatra

  78. "The details are not the details. They make the product." — Charles Eames

  79. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." — James Cameron

  80. "Work as if you were to live a thousand years, play as if you were to die tomorrow." — Benjamin Franklin

  81. "Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery." —Anne Frank

  82. "Life is made of ever so many partings welded together." — Charles Dickens

  83. "Creativity is just connecting things." — Steve Jobs

  84. "Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children." —Walt Disney

  85. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." —Albert Einstein

  86. "Never memorize something that you can look up." — Albert Einstein

  87. "We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours." — Barack Obama

  88. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." — Anne Frank

  89. "Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." — Steve Jobs

  90. "The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it." — Walt Disney

  91. "Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work..." — Albert Einstein

  92. "Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality." — Dalai Lama

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  93. "Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work." — Thomas Edison

  94. "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." — Albert Einstein

  95. "If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can't hear them anymore." — Michelle Ruiz

  96. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." — Mother Teresa

  97. "Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." — Steve Jobs

  98. "If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions." — Albert Einstein

  99. "No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it." — Peter Drucker

  100. "Whoever is happy will make others happy." — Anne Frank

Motivated by Inspirational Quotes Eveyday

You can fulfill your potential every day with the aid of motivational words and inspirational quotes. Yes, they are only words. But they are words of encouragement. And sometimes that's exactly what you need if you're on the point of giving up or striving to push yourself to the next level.

Therefore, learning how to encourage yourself and program your brain for success can be helpful whether you're trying to complete a project, launch a new side business, or achieve that huge life goal.

My wish for you is that you feel strong as you go about your day and your business that you utilize these sayings to get in touch with yourself, declutter your head, and go out into the world feeling good about yourself and the world around you.

See you next time,

Glasp team


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