101 Inspirational Quotes To Help You Achieve Your Dreams

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These inspirational quotes will give you the boost you need to slay your day, conquer your fears, and live your best life.

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Motivational Quotes

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1. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says ‘I’m possible.’” - Audrey Hepburn

2. "Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

3. "If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way." - Martin Luther King Jr.

4. “If nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do.” - Angel

5. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them” - Michael Jordan

6. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Christopher Columbus

7. “The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.” - Marty Mullens

8. “Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.” - Horace

9. “Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life." - Mandy Moore

10. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” - Neil Armstrong

11. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." - Michael Altshuler

12. "It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." - Elenor Roosevelt

13. "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens

14. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James

15. “We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections.” - John Lennon

16. “If not you, then who?” - Abraham Maslow

17. "You are enough just as you are." - Meghan Markle

18. "There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be." - The Beatles

19. “There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” - Epictetus

20. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle

Inspiring Quotes for Overcoming Challenges

Life consists of a series of challenges, but overcoming those challenges helps us grow into the strong person we need to be.

These inspirational quotes will help you triumph in the face of adversity and overcome any challenge.

1. “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

2. "Choose to be optimistic, it feels better." - Dali Lama

3. “This too, shall pass.” - Persian Proverb

4. “I’m standing on the mouth of hell, and it is gonna swallow me whole. And it’ll choke on me.” - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

5. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison

6. “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.” - Venus Williams

7. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

8. “Take these broken wings and learn to fly.” - Paul McCartney

9. “The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. ” - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

10. “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” - Vince Lombardi

11. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” - Nido Qubein

12. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” - Winston Churchill

13. “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” - Roy T. Bennett

14. “Someday, you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

15. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” - Carl Jung

16. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” - Jim Rohn

17. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day; that’s just the way it is!” - Dita Von Teese

18. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill

19. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” - Henry Ford

20. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” - Molière

21. “Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine

22. “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” - Barack Obama

23. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

24. “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.” - Tony Robbins

25. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." - Aristotle

26. "For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

27. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Nelson Mandela

28. "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." - Barack Obama

29. "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson

30. “Tomorrow is another day.” - Gone with the Wind

Quotes Inspiring You To Try

Fear prevents us from living the life we were meant to live. We let opportunities and ideas pass us by because we’re too scared to try.

These inspirational quotes will empower you to seize those opportunities when they come!

Try all the new things in life!

1. “Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.” - Robert Schuller

2. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” - Herman Melville

3. “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” - Thomas Jefferson

4. “The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.” - Stephen McCranie

5. “She was unstoppable, not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continued on despite them.” - Beau Taplin

6. “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can not accept not trying.” - Michael Jordan

7. “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.” – Dr. Roopleen

8. “The most important thing is to believe in yourself and know that you can do it.” – Gabby Douglas

9. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right” - Henry Ford

10. “Don’t be afraid to do something you’re not qualified to do.” - Dan Carlin

11. “Action is the foundational key to all success.” - Pablo Picasso

12. “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” - George Patton

13. "All your dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

14. "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee

15. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart

16. "Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." - Earl Nightingale

17. "A year from now, you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb

18. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

19. "I believe great people do things before they are ready." - Amy Poehler

20. "Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt

21. “Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working.” - Henri Matisse

22. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did.” - Mark Twain

23. "You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will." - Stephen King

24. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” - Wayne Gretzky

25. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - Laozi

26. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” - Mark Twain

Inspirational Quotes for Creativity

Creativity requires inspiration. These quotes will give you the boost needed to get your creative juices flowing!

1. "Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." - Amy Pohler

2. “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” - Norman Vincent Peale

3. “Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.” - Bobby Kennedy

4. "Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl

5. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” - Albert Einstein

6. “Our dreams may seem impossible, but our creativity can turn them into reality.” - Malala Yousafzai

7. “The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson

8. “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” - Mary Lou Cook

9. “The world needs dreamers, and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” - Sarah Ban Breathnach

10. “Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” - Debby Boone

11. “I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.” - Maya Angelou

12. “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” - Danny Kaye

13. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S Lewis

Quotes for Living Your Best Life

Are you living the life you wanted?

These inspiring quotes will give you the courage to stand up, say “no!” to society’s expectations, and live your life for yourself.

1. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than the things I haven’t done." - Lucille Ball

2. "Just say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterwards." - Tina Fey

3. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

4. "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive." - Maya Angelou

5. "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marylin Monroe

6. “There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions–in a way that serves the world and you.” - Sir Richard Branson

7. "If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and, in my art, or music, then in that respect you can call me that. . . I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.” - John Lennon

8. “There’s never enough time to do everything, but there’s always enough time to do the most important thing.” - Dean Bokhari

9. “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

10. “No one can make me feel inferior without my consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

11. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde

12. "If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." - Dolly Parton

13. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." - Omar Khayyam

15. "Do not let anyone ever tell you who you are." - Kamala Harris

16. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

17. “Success is loving life and daring to live it.” - Maya Angelou

18. “Live life to the fullest because it only happens once.” - Maddi Jenkins

19. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” - Helen Keller

20. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” - Steve Jobs

21. “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

22. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

23. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” - Henry David Thoreau

Seize Life!

Now that you’re motivated, go out and make the most of your life!

You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it!

This article was produced and syndicated by Partners in Fire.