Inspirational Quotes That Stay With You | 101 Timeless Quotes
These 101 Inspirational Quotes bring together thoughtful reminders about courage, hope, growth, dreams, and finding a little more strength for whatever today brings.
101 Inspirational Quotes
Sometimes a few well-chosen words can change the way you see an ordinary day. These inspirational quotes celebrate courage, hope, kindness, growth, and the simple idea that a better chapter can begin at any time.
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
— Henry David Thoreau“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
— Nelson Mandela“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
— Maya Angelou“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
— T. S. Eliot“Where there is love there is life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi“The best way out is always through.”
— Robert Frost“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
— Oprah Winfrey“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle“Hope is a waking dream.”
— Aristotle“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through.”
— Maya Angelou“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt“The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Every day is a new life to a wise man.”
— Dale Carnegie“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
— Jack Kornfield“Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.”
— Alice Morse Earle“The sun is new each day.”
— Heraclitus“Each day provides its own gifts.”
— Marcus Aurelius“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
— Buddha“One day or day one. You decide.”
— Paulo Coelho“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
— Bashō“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
— Charles Dederich“Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower“Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”
— Alice Morse Earle“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.”
— Bil Keane“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”
— Kiran Desai“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
— Mother Teresa“Every day is a new opportunity to make a new beginning.”
— Unknown“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
— Charlie Chaplin“One day of traveling broadens the mind.”
— Chinese Proverb“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.”
— Richard Whately“The morning was full of sunlight and hope.”
— Kate Chopin“The day is already blessed when you begin it with gratitude.”
— Unknown“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
— Glen Cook“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
— Henry David Thoreau“There is no night without a dawning.”
— Anonymous Proverb“The darkest hour is just before the dawn.”
— Thomas Fuller“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”
— Henry Ward Beecher“Light tomorrow with today.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
— Pope John Paul II“Every day is a chance to begin again.”
— Unknown“You cannot change what happened yesterday, but you can choose what happens today.”
— Unknown“The day is what you make it.”
— Unknown“Make each day your masterpiece.”
— John Wooden“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.”
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam“Today I begin anew.”
— Unknown“Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become.”
— Unknown“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
— Sean Patrick Flanery“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”
— John Lubbock“The day is short, the work is great, the reward is eternal.”
— Florence Nightingale“Each day is a new opportunity to create something beautiful.”
— Unknown“Every day is a journey into the unknown.”
— Unknown“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful.”
— George Washington“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
— Henry David Thoreau“Live each day as if your life had just begun.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.”
— Charles Schwab“Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.”
— Joan Borysenko“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
— Alan Cohen“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”
— Gretchen Rubin“Every day is a new chance to learn, grow, and become a little wiser.”
— Unknown“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
— Mark Twain“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
— Aesop“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
— Walter Bagehot“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“Keep going. Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.”
— Unknown“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
— Vincent van Gogh“Everything you can imagine is real.”
— Pablo Picasso“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
— Lao Tzu“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
— Milton Berle“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
— Robert Collier“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot“What we think, we become.”
— Buddha“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
— C. S. Lewis“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
— Walt Disney“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
— Wayne Gretzky“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
— Arthur Ashe“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
— Dalai Lama“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Nelson Mandela“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Confucius“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
— Jane Austen“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller“Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
— Maori Proverb“Once you choose hope, anything's possible.”
— Christopher Reeve“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
— John Muir“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
— Maya Angelou“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
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