100 Inspirational Quotes Still Useful in 2025

Are you looking for those morale-boosting words that can move your spirit when you feel low?

Everyone needs motivation one way or the other. For some, the need to put food on their table motivates them to show up, some, it’s their passion, while for others, it might be the need to fund the lifestyle they want.

For you, it might be certain inspiring words that can get you to leave your bed every day amongst other motivators. 

In this article, I’ll be sharing top inspirational quotes that will help, especially on those days when you don’t feel like it.

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Top 100 Inspirational Quotes 

“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.” –Serena Williams

Below are 100 inspirational quotes from famous people that can help you as you navigate life:

  1. “Accountability breeds responsibility.” – Stephen Covey 
  2. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” –Oscar Wilde
  3. “I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” –Abraham Lincoln 
  4. “Everything negative-pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” –Kobe Bryant 
  5. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that count.” –Winston Churchill
  6. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.” –Serena Williams
  7. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life and be happy; it’s all that matters.” –Steve Jobs
  8. “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” –Herman Melville
  9. “Life is about making an impact, not making an income.” –Kevin Kruse
  10. “One must die to life to be utterly a creator.” –Thomas Mann 
  11. “You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.” –Zig Ziglar 
  12. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” –Zig Ziglar
  13. “Strength and growth comes only through continuous effort and struggle.” –Napoleon Hill 
  14. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” –Napoleon Hill 
  15. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  16. “Genius is the ability to put into effect what’s in your mind.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald
  17. “Quality is not an act, it’s a habit.” –Aristotle 
  18. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” –Aristotle
  19. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” –Plutarch
  20. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”–Amelia Earhart
  21. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” –Colin R. Davis
  22. “It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.” –Danny Boyle
  23. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” –Napoleon Hill
  24. “To the Victors belongs the spoil.” – Andrew Jackson 
  25. “The future starts today and not tomorrow.”–Pope John Paul II
  26. “We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” –Albert Einstein
  27. “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” –Melissa McCarthy
  1. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” –Mahatma Gandhi
  2. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” –Carol Burnett
  3. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” –Albert Einstein
  4. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” –Alice Walker
  5. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” –W. Clement Stone
  6. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” –Thomas Edison
  7. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” –Wayne Gretzky
  8. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier.” –Mother Teresa
  9. “Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.” – Ancient Indian Proverb
  10. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” –Babe Ruth
  11. “Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.” –Deepak Chopra
  12. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” –Maya Angelou
  13. “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” –Steve Jobs
  14. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” –Woody Allen
  15. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” –John Lennon
  16. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
  17. “Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking.” –Lee Ann Womack
  18. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” –Anonymous
  19. “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” –Bruce Feirstein
  20. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” –John Wooden
  21. “Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” –Vince Lombardi
  22. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” –Margaret Thatcher
  23. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” –Will Rogers
  24. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” –Anonymous
  25. “Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.” –Kevin Kruse
  26. “If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.” –Jim Rohn
  27. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” –Oscar Wilde
  28. “Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.” –Anonymous
  29. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” –Tony Robbins
  30. “We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
  31. “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act. Action will delineate and define you.” –Thomas Jefferson 
  32. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” –Abraham Lincoln 
  33. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” –Charles Swindoll
  34. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” –Chinese Proverb
  35. “An unexamined life is not worth living.” –Socrates
  36. “If the highest aim of a captain is to preserve the ship, he’ll keep it in port forever.” –Thomas Aquinas 
  37. “Sorrow can be alleviated by a good sleep, bath, and a glass of wine.” –Thomas Aquinas 
  38. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” –Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” –Steve Jobs
  1. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” –Farrah Gray
  2. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” –George Eliot
  3. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” –Vernon Sanders Law
  4. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” –Jim Rohn
  5. “The best revenge is massive success.” –Frank Sinatra
  6. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
  7. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” –Paulo Coelho
  8. “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” –Spencer Johnson
  9. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” –John R. Wooden
  10. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” –Stephen Covey
  11. “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but schedule your priorities.” –Steven Covey
  12. “Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.” –Stephen Covey 
  13. “Do your work with your whole heart and you’ll succeed- there’s so little competition.” –Elbert Hubbard
  14. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Christopher Columbus
  15. “Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.” –Booker T. Washington 
  16. “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” –Mary McLeod Bethune 
  17. “Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.” –Mary McLeod Bethune
  18. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” –Mark Twain
  19. “You can’t depend on your eye when your imagination is out of focus.” –Mark Twain 
  20. “The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.” –Elbert Hubbard 
  21. “We work to become not to acquire.” –Elbert Hubbard
  22. “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  23. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  24. “Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” –Anne Frank
  25. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anais Nin
  26. “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” –Anne Frank
  27. “Shoot for the moon and if you miss, you’ll still be among the stars.” –Les Brown 
  28. “You’re never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” –Les Brown 
  29. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” –Tony Robbins
  30. “Keep your eyes on the star and your feet on the ground”. –Theodore Roosevelt 
“Keep your eyes on the star and your feet on the ground”. –Theodore Roosevelt 
  1. “It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop.” –Confucius
  2. “You cannot open a book without learning something.” –Confucius 
  3. “Learning never exhausts the mind.” –Leonardo da Vinci
  4. “Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.” –Nnamdi Azikwe
  5. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” –Nelson Mandela

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