100+ Inspirational Quotes from 'Oh, the Places You'll Go!'

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

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

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

I’m not lazy, I’m just conserving energy for my future success.

I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.

I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not so sure.

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

My phone battery lasts longer than my relationships.

I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.

I put my phone in airplane mode, but it won’t take off.

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile away and have their shoes.

I'm not short, I'm concentrated awesome.

I didn't lose my temper today because I found a loophole: I yelled at my GPS instead.

They say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Man is the measure of all things.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

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.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Every moment with you is like a beautiful dream I never want to wake up from.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew—love at first sight is real.

I choose you. And I'll keep choosing you, every single day.

You’re my favorite place to go when my mind searches for peace.

I love you more than yesterday, but less than tomorrow.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You are capable of more than you know.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

Stars can't shine without darkness.

Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.

Don’t let fear win. Don’t let comfort deceive you. Rise.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Patience is not the ability to wait, but how you act while you're waiting.

A wise man once said nothing at all.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

True wisdom comes not from knowledge, but from understanding.

The wiser the person, the more they question themselves.

Speak when you can improve silence.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Understanding is the reward of wisdom.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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.

Lead by example. If you can’t, lead by voice. If you can’t, get out of the way.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

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

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Leaders think and act alike. Follows think and act differently.

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

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Success is not measured by money, but by impact.

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Success isn’t owned, it’s rented—and the rent is due every day.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire.

Success is not about being the best. It’s about being better than you were yesterday.

Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.

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

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

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

You only live once—but if you work it right, once is enough.

Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.

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

Life is not measured in years, but in the moments that take your breath away.

Life is tough, but so are you.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year.

Small daily improvements lead to stunning results.

You don’t have to be extreme, just consistent.

Growth begins when you accept where you are, who you are, and decide to move forward.

Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.

Become addicted to progress, not perfection.

You are the project. Work on yourself every single day.