68 Inspirational Quotes That Will Motivate You

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Inspirational quotes have this unusual ability to motivate the mankind and change the way they feel about themselves. That’s why, people find these interesting and crucial on their ways to achievements. The way a person thinks and feels, including his beliefs and expectations about what is possible for him, determine everything that happens to that particular person. Inspirational Quotes will certainly help you find the 68 that you need in your life. EliteColumn brings you some inspirational quotes to help you see the never-ending potential that life has to offer.

68 Best Inspirational Quotes

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  1. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” 


2. “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” –Rianna Huffington

3. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” – Erica Jong

4. “I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.”  – Don Cheadle

5. “You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” – Leymah Gbowee

6. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton

7. “If it makes you nervous, you’re doing it right.” – Childish Gambino

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8. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.”

9. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” – Sonia Sotomayor

10. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” – Jennifer Lopez

11. “There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.” – Mister Rogers

12. “No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” – Billie Jean King

13. “I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” – Mia Hamm

14. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

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15. “The one who falls and gets up is much stronger than the one who never fell.” 


16. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey

17. “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” – Melissa McCarthy

18. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin

19. “The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.” – David Hurley

20. “I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.”  – Gilbert K. Chesterton

21. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

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22. “A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.”

23. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain

24. “If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill

25. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn

26. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” – Augustine Og Mandino

27. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” – John Wooden

28. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” – Abraham Lincoln

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29. “Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural.” 


30. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

31. “Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi

32. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” – Walt Disney

33. “When you know your why and have found your purpose, no one can stop you.” – Avinash VS

34. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

35. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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36. “Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless.”

37. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” – Jay-Z

38. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

39. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” – Louise Hay

40. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel

41. “Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.” – Kurt Vonnegut

42. “People’s passion and desire for authenticity is strong.” – Constance Wu

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43. “Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.” 


44. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan

45. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston

46. “You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

47. “Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.” – Drake

48. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

49. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball

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50. “Why do you not practice what you preach.”

51. “You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.” – Dita Von Teese

52. “Hang in there. Hang in there. Your time will come.” – Avinash VS

53. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

54. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” –  Angelou

55. “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” – Edna Mode

56. “The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” – Steve Furtick

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57. “True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.– Anonymous

58. “Do not let ego get the best of you.” – Avinash VS

59. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

60. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

61. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” – Ruth Gordo

62. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” – Dale Carnegie

63. “Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short.” – Paul Graham

64. “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”

65. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” – Pablo Picasso

66. “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” – Isabel Allende

67. “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.” – David Ogilvy

68. “More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Reeti Banerjee is a content writer/editor working closely with a prominent digital marketing firm. A writer by day & an avid reader by night, she is loathe to discuss herself in the third person. But, she can be persuaded to do so from time to time.