We all need someone or something to inspire us at different times in our lives and that is why we are bringing you this long list of inspirational quotes aimed at helping you succeed in different areas of your life. Be you an entrepreneur, a student, married man/woman, a kid, an athlete, or just someone who wants to record all-round success in life, this highly inspirational quotes will spur you to remain optimistic, even when there is no visible reason to be, work hard, and go the extra mile to achieve extraordinary results.
200 Short Inspirational Quotes About Life and Struggles
Short Inspirational Quotes
1. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. – Marcus Aurelius
3. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote
4. The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. – Bruce Lee
5. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Gandhi
6. Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman
7. Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop. – Lewis Carroll
8. To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. – Mark Twain
9. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves! – Chanakya
11. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. – Vince Lombardi
12. You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. – Zig Ziglar
13. It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
14. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
15. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. – Jimmy Dean
16. Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same one a second time. – George Bernard Shaw
17. Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman
18. Every moment is a fresh beginning. – T.S. Eliot
19. Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. – Swami Sivananda
20. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. – Charles Kettering
21. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair
22. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton
23. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle
24. To be the best, you must be able to handle the worst. – Wilson Kanadi
25. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha
Funny Inspirational Quotes
26. If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? – George Carlin
27. Change is not a four-letter word… but often your reaction to it is! – Jeffrey Gitomer
28. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein
29. Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rogers
30. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path then by all means you should follow that. – Ellen Degeneres
31. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote
32. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. – Dalai Lama
33. I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin
34. Well-behaved women seldom make history. – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich,
35. I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. – Louis C.K.
36. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Eddison
37. If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big. – Donald Trump
38. People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. – A.A. Milne
39. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. – Mark Twain
40. Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. – Tom Lehrer
41. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
42. When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’ – Sydney Harris
43. If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. – Marie Osmond
44. If you hit the target every time it’s too near or too big. – Tom Hirshfield
45. Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop. – Unknown
46. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. – Jack London
47. Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. – Kyle Chandler
48. A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure. – Unknown
49. Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell. – Bill Copeland
50. Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. – Isaac Asimov
Inspirational Quotes For Women
51. If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor. – Al Anon
52. The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race. – Susan B. Anthony
53. A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. – Diane Mariechild
54. The best protection any woman can have…is courage. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
55. The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world. – Arlene Rankin
56. Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. – Charlotte Whitton
57. Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use. – Ruth Gordon
58. Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. – Elizabeth Gilbert
59. Woman must not accept; she must challenge.She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression. – Margaret Sanger
60. A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t. – Rhonda Hansome
61. Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. – Margaret Thatcher
62. We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever. – Susan B. Anthony
63. I want to do it 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
64. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. – Marie Curie
65. The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand
66. Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses. – Madame Marie du Deffand
67. Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. – Caroline Myss
68. Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic. – Rosalind Russell
69. A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. – Melinda Gates
70. One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. – Simone de Beauvoir
71. A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt
72. A strong woman understands that gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts. – Nancy Rathburn
73. Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon…I’ll never look back. – Edna Gardner Whyte
74. Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.” – Clare Boothe Luce
75. The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand
Inspirational Quotes For Kids
76. The more you give away the happier you become. – Unknown
77. Being kind is never wasted. – Unknown
78. When you know better you do better. – Maya Angelou
79. Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
80. No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers. – Wolfgang Riebe
81. Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends. – Art Linkletter
82. Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland
83. So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! Kid, you’ll move mountains. – Dr. Seuss
84. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have. – Jim Rohn
85. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
86. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. – Hans Christen Andersen
87. Always keep a positive mindset, it will improve your outlook on the world. – Roald Dahl
88. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
89. The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. – Theodore Roosevelt
90. Climb ev’ry mountain, Ford ev’ry stream, Follow ev’ry rainbow, ‘Til you find your dream. – Unknown
91. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. – Confucious
92. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. – Dalai Lama
93. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreau
94. Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets. – Clark Moustakas
95. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hearts. – Charles Dickens
96. Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
97. It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. – Epictetus
98. We grow great by dreams. – Woodrow Wilson
99. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
100. Only surround yourself with people who will lift you higher. – Oprah Winfrey
Inspirational Quotes On Love
101. No one said love was going to be easy. But having it means you will not have to face life alone and will always have someone to share it with, and that can make all the difference. — Unknown
102. Love does not mean you will always agree, see eye to eye, or never have an argument. It means despite the bad days you still can’t see yourself without that person. — Unknown
103. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. — Sam Keen
104. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. — Maya Angelou
105. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo
106. To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything. — T. Tolis
107. I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more. — Angelita Lim
108. There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table. — Tom Hanks
109. Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” — H. L. Mencken
110. Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. ― Paulo Coelho
111. Love is beyond sex and physical touch. Love is kind words, a reassuring smile, one that is not jealous and keeps record of wrong doings. Love is knowing without a shadow of a doubt that you will always be there for that person and they will always be there for you. — Marriage.com Quotes
112. You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. — Julia Roberts
113. When love is not madness it is not love. ― Pedro Calderón de la Barca
114. The greatest thing you’ll ever learn Is to love and be loved in return. — Nat King Cole
115. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao-Tzu
116. I have decided to stick to love; hate is too great a burden to bear. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
117. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. ― Pablo Neruda
118. Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all. — Ernest Hemingway
119. We are shaped and fashioned by those we love. — Geothe
120. You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Oscar Wilde
121. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ― Sophocles
122. Where there is love there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi
123. You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” ― Jodi Picoult
124. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — Bette Davis
125. When you truly love someone it means your love is unconditional. It means taking the good and the bad, loving them for the person they are, and not trying to change them into the person you want them to be. — Marriage.com Quotes
Shot Inspirational Quotes For Students
126. Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X
127. Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
128. Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. – Coco Chanel
129. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
130. There will be doubters, there will be obstacles, there will be mistakes. But, with hard work, there are no limits. – Michael Phelps
131. Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. – Mary Kay Ash
132. There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar
133. Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich
134. Be stronger than your excuses. – Anonymous
135. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. – B.B. King
136. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. – Richard Branson
137. You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing. – Philippos
138. To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like. – Mike Gafka
139. I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand. – Chinese Proverb
140. Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. – Pele
141. Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
142. Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. – Virat Kohli
143. Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn
144. Success doesn’t come to you, you’ve got to go to it. – Marva Collins
145. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford
146. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
147. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. – James Cameron
148. Reading is to the mind, as exercise is to the body. – Brian Tracy
149. Preparation is the key to success. – Alexander Graham Bell
150. I’ve failed over and over and over in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
Inspirational Marriage Quotes
151. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. – Andre Maurois
152. A husband and wife may disagree on many things, but they must absolutely agree on this: to never, ever give up. – Unknown
153. A great marriage doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building that love until the end. – Unknown
154. A good husband makes a good wife. – John Florio
155. Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths. – Sheri L. Dew
156. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. – When Harry Met Sally
157. Love is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other, and who know that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together. – Barbara Cage
158. Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it. – Stephen Gaines
159. The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest. – Unknown
160. By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher. – Socrates
161. Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have. – Gordon B. Hinckley
162. The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. — Henny Youngman
163. Couples that are meant to be are the ones who go through everything that’s designed to tear them apart and come out stronger than ever before.
164. So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me… everyday. — Nicholas Sparks
165. A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other the guardian of his solitude and shows him this confidence, the greatest in his power to bestow. – Rainer Maria Rilke
166. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church. – Pope John Paul II
167. The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife. – Barbara De Angelis
168. Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day. – Barbara De Angelis
169. Marriage – the roots are deep, the covenant is solid, love is sweet, life is hard, and God is good.
170. You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you. – Richard Needham
171. Two souls but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
172. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. – Michel de Montaigne
173. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threaded, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. – Simone Signoret
174. There is no such thing as a perfect marriage because it is made of imperfect people. God is the only one that is perfect and having Him in the middle of your marriage guarantees perfection in all the imperfect circumstances.
175. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times and always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin
Inspirational Quotes On Endurance
176. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. — Martin Luther King Jr.
177. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
178. So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. ― J.R.R. Tolkien
179. At the end of the day it’s about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves. ― Tabitha Suzuma
180. If you’re going through Hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill
181. Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real-life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. ―
182. You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled – not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did. ― Leigh Bardugo,
183. Head up, heart open. To better days! ― T.F. Hodge
184. To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature’s ladder. ― Rick Yancey
185. Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
186. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ― John F. Kennedy
187. If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. ― Sarah J. Maas
188. A man on a thousand-mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep. ― Leo Tolstoy
189. A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you. ― Tahir Shah
190. In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. — Albert Camus
191. A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. —Chinese proverb
192. All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way. ― Bell Hooks
193. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. —Confucius
194. Winning isn’t about finishing in first place. It isn’t about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality. ― Kilian Jornet
195. I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. — Abraham Lincoln
196. No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear. ― Greg Kincaid
197. The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. — Morris Mandel
198. This too shall pass. ― Hakim Sanai
199. No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. ― Orson F. Whitney
200. A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl. — Stephan Hoeller