
Inspirational quotes can motivate us and change the way we perceive ourselves. They also have a unique quality that can transform our thinking and make us see our current situation from a more positive and uplifting perspective.
While we don’t always have control over the universe, we do have control over our thoughts and how we react to our circumstances.
So, here are 50 of the most inspirational quotes to help lift your spirit and transform your thinking.
1. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill
2. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~Gandhi
3. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~Dr. Robert Schuller
4. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” ~Victor Kiam
5. “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” ~Henry David Thoreau
6. “When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” ~Mary Kay Ash
7. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~Will Rogers
8. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~Theodore Roosevelt
9. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~Napoleon Hill
10. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~Walt Disney
11. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~Winston Churchill
12. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” ~Will Rogers
13. “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” ~Unknown
14. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” ~ Vince Lombardi
15. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” ~Rob Siltanen
16. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”~ Maya Angelou
17. “Imagine your life is perfect in every respect; What would it look like?”~ Brian Tracy
18. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.”~Dr. Henry Link
19. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt
20. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ~Frederick Douglass
21. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”- Henry Ford
22. “Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body.”~Brian Tracy
23. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”~Albert Einstein
24. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” ~Karen Lamb
25. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~Albert Einstein
26. “Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” ~Russell Warren
27. “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” ~Ben Hogan
28. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” ~Roger Staubach
29. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~ Alan Kay
30. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
31. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” ~Arnold Palmer
32. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” ~Pablo Picasso
33. “Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.” ~Ted Williams
34. “The best revenge is massive success.” ~Frank Sinatra
35. “I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” ~Charles Swindoll
36. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
37. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~Confucius
38. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ~Napoleon Hill
39. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ~Winston Churchill
40. “I’m not a product of my circumstance. I am a product of my decisions.” ~Stephen Covey
41. “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” ~John Madden
42. “The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best!”~Brian Tracy
43. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” ~Billie Jean King
44. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”~ William James
45. “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” ~Howard Ruff
46. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” ~Joe Namath
47. “A mind stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
48. “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” ~Elbert Hubbard
49. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”~ C.S. Lewis
50. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~George Eliot
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