Top 200 Inspirational Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Time Quotes

2. “Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

3. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Identity Quotes

4. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

— Abraham Lincoln

5. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

— Margaret Fuller

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Quotes About Books And Reading, Learning Quotes, Teacher Quotes

6. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Intention Quotes

7. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Quotes, Startup Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

8. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Time Quotes, Famous Quotes

9. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Running Quotes

10. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”

— Farrah Gray

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Goal Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Inspirational Business Quotes

11. “Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

12. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Quotes About Books And Reading

13. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Quotes, Success Quotes

14. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Care Quotes, Emotional Quotes

15. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.””

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

16. “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

— Walter Bagehot

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

17. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

18. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

19. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Values Quotes

20. “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes

21. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Goal Quotes

22. “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Action Quotes, Interesting Quotes

23. “All things are difficult before they are easy.”

— Thomas Fuller

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

24. “Knowledge is power.”

— Francis Bacon

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Study Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

25. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: New Year Quotes

26. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

27. “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Science Quotes

28. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

— Robert Collier

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes

29. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Life Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

30. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Failure Quotes, Change Quotes

31. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Success Quotes, Goal Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes

32. “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Goal Quotes

33. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Change Quotes

34. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Life Quotes, Career Development Quotes

35. “Action is the foundational key to all success. ”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Action Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

36. “Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Interesting Quotes

37. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Powerful Motivational Quotes

38. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

39. “DO WHAT YOU CAN’T”

— Casey Neistat

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Determination Quotes

40. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Quotes, Startup Quotes

41. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Goal Quotes, Time Quotes

42. “Even dust, if piled up, will become a mountain.”

— Japanese Proverb

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Short Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

43. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Success Quotes, Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes

44. “Action will destroy your procrastination.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

45. “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Action Quotes, Empowering Quotes

46. “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”

— Chuck Close

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

47. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Life Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Positive Motivational Quotes

48. “When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’”

— Tom Preston-Werner

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Startup Quotes, Courage Quotes, Greatness Quotes

49. “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Quality Quotes

50. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Wise Quotes