There's a reason we turn to inspiring quotes. Inspiring life quotes can help us get through a bad day or turn fear into happiness. If you're letting yourself drown in pessimistic thoughts and your friends don't seem to be helpful when you need some inspirational advice, a good quote and saying can sometimes do the trick. When you need a shift in perspective and a reminder of what life offers, these 99 quotes will inspire you out of the doldrums:
- “If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”— Maya Angelou
- "It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
- “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Once you choose hope, anything's possible." — Christopher Reeve
- "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." — Coco Chanel
- “The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in your wallet.” — Will Rogers
- "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." — Dolly Parton
- "You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." — Michael Jordan
- "I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." — Charlotte Bronte
- “Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” — Ray Kroc
- “You cannot save people, you can just love them.” — Anais Nin
- “Live each day as if your life has just begun.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King
- “The grass is greener where you water it.” — Neil Barringham
- "But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid." — Arianna Huffington
- “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin
- "Failure is another steppingstone to greatness." — Oprah Winfrey
- “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
- "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." — Mahatma Gandhi
- "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." — Mae West
- “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
- “One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” — Ruth Reichl
- "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." — Arthur Ashe
- "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." — Thomas Jefferson
- “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” — Mother Teresa
- "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." — John D. Rockefeller
- “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” — Diane Mariechild
- “An unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
- ““I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” — Amelia Earhart
- “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” — Marie Curie
- “The best protection any woman can have … is courage.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." — Bruce Lee
- “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
- “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” — Vincent van Gogh
- "It is never too late to be what you might have been." — George Eliot
- “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
- “I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” — Rosa Parks
- “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” — Tony Robbins
- “Run to the fire; don’t hide from it." — Meg Whitman
- “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” — Gloria Steinem
- “If you can dream it, you can achieve it." — Zig Ziglar
- “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” — Simone de Beauvoir
- "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." — Bill Gates
- “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” — Melissa Etheridge
- "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." — George Bernard Shaw
- “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” — Katharine Hepburn
- "Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment." — Stephen Covey
- “I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” — Emma Stone
- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller
- “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in.” — Morrie Schwartz
- “It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.” — Taylor Swift
- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.” — Mark Twain
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
- “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” — Plutarch
- “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” — Harper Lee
- “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl
- “When you’re through changing, you’re through.” — Martha Stewart
- “Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” — Jose Luis Borges
- “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” — Indira Ghandi
- “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha
- “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Princess Diana
- “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” — Ronald Reagan
- “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” — J.K. Rowling
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle Onassis
- “All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.” — Julie Andrews
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
- “The challenge is not to be perfect...it’s to be whole.” — Jane Fonda
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale
- “Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.” — Bette Midler
- “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” — Bob Dylan
- “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” — Melissa McCarthy
- “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
- “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” — Jennifer Lopez
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
- “If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” — Cher
- “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?” — Rumi
- “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare
- “Everyone shines, given the right lighting.” — Susan Cain
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
- “I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.” — Hoda Kotb
- “Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.” — George Carlin
- “Well behaved women seldom make history.” — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- “The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg
- “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” — Rachel Zoe
- “It's very easy to be different but very difficult to be better.” — Jonathan Ive
- “When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’” — Jada Pinkett Smith
- “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin
- “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” — Roger Staubach
- “I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone.” — Tory Burch
- “If you focus on results, you will never get change. If you focus on change, you will get results.” — Jack Dixon
- “I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Roger
- “When they go low, we go high.” — Michelle Obama
- “The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” — Chuck Palahniuk
Whether you need a funny quote, an inspirational meme or just some wise sayings to give your heart the courage it needs to take a leap in your career, these 99 phrases should offer you a good springboard!