Top 140 Sunday Inspirational Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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

2. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

3. “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

4. “You change your life by changing your heart.”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Motivational Monday Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Emotional Quotes

5. “Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Time Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

6. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

— Matthew 7:7

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Scripture Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

7. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

— Leo Buscaglia

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

8. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Service Quotes, Morality Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

9. “God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’”

— Billy Graham

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Faith Quotes

10. “Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Values Quotes

11. “God loves you simply because He has chosen to do so. He loves you when you don’t feel lovely. He loves you when no one else loves you. Others may abandon you, divorce you, and ignore you, but God will love you always. No matter what!”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Christian Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

12. “You’ve got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but you’ve got to believe that God has a reason for it and he’s going to make everything good.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Sunday Morning Quotes, Sunday Quotes

13. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

— Bruce Lee

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

14. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”

— Dolly Parton

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

15. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Love Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

16. “There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Change Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

17. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Care Quotes

18. “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

— Leonard Cohen

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Music Quotes, Famous Quotes, Important Quotes

19. “To love is to recognize yourself in another.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Emotion Quotes

20. “The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

— Scott Hamilton

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Personality Quotes, Happy Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

21. “They alone live, who live for others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Service Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

22. “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Faith Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

23. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Learning Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Short Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

24. “I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

25. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.”

— Pope John Paul II

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Future Quotes, Powerful Quotes

26. “People of excellence go the extra mile to do what’s right.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Excellence Quotes

27. “Do your best and God will do the rest.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

28. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Faith Quotes

29. “The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

30. “Courage, dear heart.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes

31. “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”

— Jim Elliot

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Values Quotes, Faith Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

32. “Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last.”

— Charles Studd

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Scripture Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

33. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

34. “You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Also featured in: Feel Good Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Important Quotes

35. “Don’t aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.”

— Denzel Washington

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

36. “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Morality Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

37. “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

38. “A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

39. “The key to SUCCESS is to START before you’re ready.”

— Marie Forleo

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

40. “Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.”

— David Jeremiah

Also featured in: Christian Quotes, Scripture Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

41. “Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Impact Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

42. “Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”

— Lou Holtz

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Winning Quotes

43. “Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

44. “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Encouragement Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes, Wise Quotes

45. “Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Encouragement Quotes, Faith Quotes, Impossible Quotes, Quotes About Believing

46. “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

— E.E. Cummings

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Identity Quotes

47. “Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Also featured in: Meaningful Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Path Quotes, Character Quotes

48. “The Service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Be Kind Quotes, Service Quotes

49. “The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

50. “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

— Frederick Buechner

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes