Inspirational Quotes from Famous People

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill

It always seems impossible until it's done. — Nelson Mandela

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Confucius

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. — Walter Elliot

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. — Sam Levenson

The hard days are what make you stronger. — Aly Raisman

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. — Michael Jordan

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. — Og Mandino

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. — Vince Lombardi

Fall seven times, stand up eight. — Japanese Proverb

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' — Mary Anne Radmacher

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. — Henry David Thoreau

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. — Colin R. Davis

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value. — Albert Einstein

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. — Roy T. Bennett

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. — John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. — Maya Angelou

There is no substitute for hard work. — Thomas Edison

Opportunities don't happen. You create them. — Chris Grosser

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. — Bo Bennett

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. — Vidal Sassoon

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. — Robert Collier

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. — Nelson Mandela

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. — J.K. Rowling

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. — Søren Kierkegaard

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. — Nelson Mandela

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. — Steve Jobs

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. — John Wayne

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. — Maya Angelou

Do one thing every day that scares you. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours. — Zig Ziglar

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. — Omar N. Bradley

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. — Brené Brown

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. — Walt Disney

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. — Henry David Thoreau

Dream big and dare to fail. — Norman Vaughan

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

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. — Langston Hughes

It's not about how much we lost. It's about how much we have left. — Commander Chris Hadfield

Dreams don't work unless you do. — John C. Maxwell

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. — Oprah Winfrey

Dream without fear. Love without limits. — Unknown

Chase your dreams, not your problems. — Unknown

Where there is love there is life. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle

None but ourselves can free our minds. — Bob Marley

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain

In a world where you can be anything, be kind. — Jennifer Dukes Lee

Love makes a short minute seem like an hour, and an hour seem like a short minute. — Unknown

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. — Aesop

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead. — Mother Teresa

A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference. — A.A. Milne

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. — Mother Teresa

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. — Alan Watts

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale

Growth begins when we accept our shortcomings. — Jerry Burton

Life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take our breath away. — Unknown

Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. — Alice Morse Earle

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. — Booker T. Washington

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are. — Max DePree

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn

People change, and forget to tell each other. — Lillian Hellman

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. — Mandy Hale

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. — Rabindranath Tagore

Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. — John C. Maxwell

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. — Ralph Nader

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. — Seth Godin

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. — Jack Welch

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. — John C. Maxwell

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. — John C. Maxwell

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren Bennis

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Leadership is action, not position. — Donald H. McGannon

An effective leader is a servant first. — Robert K. Greenleaf

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. — Henry Kissinger

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted. — John Lennon

Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. — Dolly Parton

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. — Mark Twain

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. — Charles R. Swindoll

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. — Anaïs Nin

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. — Mark Twain

Creativity is intelligence having fun. — Albert Einstein

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. — Pablo Picasso

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. — Steve Jobs

To innovate, you must play. — Tom Peters

The creative adult is the child who survived. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. — Maya Angelou

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. — Steve Jobs

Creativity takes courage. — Henri Matisse

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. — Neil Gaiman

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. — Stephen Fry

Art challenges society, and society controls art. — Banksy

Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. — Albert Szent-Györgyi