50 Inspirational Quotes for
When You Need a Little Motivation
1 Queen Elizabeth II
It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.
2 Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
3 Amanda Gorman
There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.
4 Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
5 Cicely Tyson
I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.
6 André Leon Talley
I scorched the earth with my talent and I let my light shine.
7 A.A. Milne
You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
8 Madeleine Albright
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
9 Lupita Nyong'o
You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you.
10 Winston Churchill
Attitude is the 'little' thing that makes a big difference.
11 Rosa Parks
We will fail when we fail to try.
12 Walt Disney
All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
13 Olivia Newton-John
Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.
14 Loretta Lynn
I don’t go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
15 Thomas Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
16 Madam C.J Walker
Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
17 Steve Jobs
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
18 Esteé Lauder
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
19 Billie Jean King
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
20 Naomi Judd
A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
21 Albert Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
22 Mark Cuban
If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.
23 Anne Heche
We do not fall in love with the package of the person; we fall in love with the inside of a person.
24 Ronald Reagan
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
25 Mikhail Gorbachev
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
26 James Caan
My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'
27 Gabrielle Union
Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential to every take, and be on top of your job, or they will replace you.
28 Michelle Obama
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
29 Simone Biles
Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it.
30 The Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something readymade; it comes from your own actions.
31 Shinzo Abe
Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.
32 Taraji P. Henson
I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
33 Viola Davis
All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.
34 Robert H. Schuller
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
35 Elaine Welteroth
When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear.
36 Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
37 William James
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
38 Alexander the Great
There is nothing impossible to they who will try.
39 Queen Elizabeth II
It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult.
40 Charles Dickens
The Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
41 Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
42 Amelia Earhart
The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.
43 Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
44 Zig Ziglar
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
45 Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
46 Theodore Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
47 Aristotle
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
48 Willie Nelson
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
49 Loretta Lynn
In the long run, you make your own luck — good, bad, or indifferent.
50 Marie Curie
We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
