Looking for motivation? Look no further than these most inspirational quotes of all-time. Whether you need a pick-me-up, an extra push to get the job done, or just a reminder that anything is possible, these quotes can help. Here are 65+ of the most inspirational quotes of all-time, handpicked to give you the motivation you need to make it through the day.
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Most Inspirational Quotes of All-Time
- “Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” ~Arthur Christopher Benson
- “When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” ~Mary Kay Ash
- “Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.” ~Scott Reed
- “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~Will Rogers
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” ~Dalai Lama
- “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” ~Teddy Roosevelt
- “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” ~Arnold Palmer
- “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ~Napoleon Hill
- “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” ~Muhammad Ali
- “Someday is not a day of the week.” ~Denise Brennan-Nelson
- “Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” ~Russell Warren
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~Gandhi
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” ~Norman Vaughan
- “If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.” ~Mario Andretti
- “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” ~Doug Ivester
- “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” ~Tim Ferriss
- “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~Albert Einstein
- “You`ve got to bumble forward into the unknown.” ~Frank Gehry
- “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” ~Charles Kettering
- “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” ~Elbert Hubbard
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
- “It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” ~Howard Ruff
- “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” ~Gary Player
- “You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.” ~Henry David Thoreau
- “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ~John Muir
- “Light tomorrow with today.” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” ~T.S. Eliot
- “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A year from now you may wish you had started today.” ~Karen Lamb
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Powerful motivational quotes
- “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all? ~Joe Namath
- “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” ~Henry David Thoreau
- “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” ~Victor Kiam
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” ~Theodore Roosevelt
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” ~Vince Lombardi
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” ~Billie Jean King
- “Action is the foundational key to all success ~Pablo Picasso
- “The best dreams happen when you’re awake.” ~Cherie Gilderbloom
- “The dreamers are the saviors of the world.” ~James Allen
- “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill
- “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” ~Roger Staubach
- “There are no short cuts to any place worth going.” ~Beverly Sills
- “Make each day your masterpiece.” ~John Wooden
- “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ~Frederick Douglass
- “I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.” ~David Livingston
- “Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.” ~Ted Williams
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Motivational quotes for success
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~Napoleon Hill
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” ~Dr. Robert Schuller
- “There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” ~Christopher Morley
- “Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” ~Yoda
- “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” ~Jim Rohn
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~George Eliot
- “If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.” ~Ben Hogan
- “Do what you love and the money will follow.” ~Marsha Sinetar
- “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The best way out is always through.” ~Robert Frost
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” ~ Alan Kay
- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” ~Babe Ruth
- “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” ~Christopher Reeve
- “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ~Lao Tzu
- “The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.” ~John Madden
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” ~George Addair
- “Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.” ~Helen Keller
- “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” ~Richard Bach
- “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” ~Jimmy Johnson