50 inspirational quotes to motivate you for 2025

Great quotes will be inspiring and motivating. You can use quotes to guide your decisions in life, work and love. Here are the 50 best inspirational quotes to motivate you:

1. Nothing is unimaginable, the word itself says: “I am possible”! –Audrey Hepburn
2. I’ve learned that individuals will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they may always remember how you made them feel. – Maja Angelou
3. Whether you think you can or you think you cannot, you’re right. —Henry Ford
4. Perfection can’t be achieved, but if we try for perfection, we are able to achieve it. —Vince Lombardi
5. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. — Charles Swindoll
6. If you look at what you have in life, you will at all times have more. If you look at what you don’t have in your life, you won’t ever have enough. —Oprah Winfrey
7. None of us are as smart as each of us. — Ken Blanchard
8. I am unable to change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust the sails to at all times reach their destination. –Jimmy Dean
9. Believe you can and you’ll be halfway there. —Theodore Roosevelt
10. To cope, use your head; to deal with others, use your heart. –Eleanor Roosevelt
11. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. -Les Brown
12. Alone we are able to do little; together we are able to do a lot. —Helen Keller
13. Whatever the human mind can imagine and consider, it will probably achieve. — Napoleon’s Hill
14. Twenty years from now, you’ll regret what you didn’t do greater than what you did, so throw away the ropes, sail out of the secure harbor, and catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover. — Mark Twain
15. I have missed over 9,000 shots in my profession. I lost almost 300 games. 26 times I used to be trusted to take the winning shot and I missed. I have failed many times in my life. And that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
16. Strive not to achieve success, but quite to be priceless. — Albert Einstein
17. I’m not a product of my circumstances. I’m a product of my decisions. —Stephen Covey
18. When all the things seems to be going against you, do not forget that the plane takes off into the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
19. The commonest way people surrender their power is by considering they do not have it. – Alice Walker
20. The hardest thing is the decision to act, the rest is perseverance. — Amelia Earhart
21. Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision, the ability to direct individual achievements towards organizational goals. It is the fuel that permits strange people to achieve extraordinary results. —Andrew Carnegie
22. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you have reaped, but by the seeds you have sown. – Robert Louis Stevenson
23. The real likelihood for success lies in the person, not in the job. — Zig Ziglar
24. Change your thoughts and you will change your world. —Norman Vincent Peale
25. There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in order. What grows quickly withers just as quickly. What grows slowly lasts. -Josiah Gilbert Holland
26. Don’t be afraid of life. Believe that life is price living and your faith will help create this fact. —William James
27. Build your individual dreams, or another person will hire you to make theirs come true. –Farrah Gray
28. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. — Dalai Lama
29. You cannot use up your creativity. The more you use, the more you have. – Maja Angelou
30. I have learned over the years that when someone makes a decision, it reduces fear. – Rosa Parks
31. I’d quite die of passion than boredom. – Vincent van Gogh
32. A very wealthy man is one whose children run to his arms when his hands are empty. — (*50*)
33. A one who has never made a mistake has never tried anything latest. — Albert Einstein
34. What is money? A person might be successful if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in the meantime does what he wants. –Bob Dylan
35. I used to be impressed by the urgency of the motion. Knowledge is not enough; we have to report. It is not enough to want; we have to do. –Leonardo da Vinci
36. If you want to lift yourself, lift another person. — Booker T. Washington
37. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I’ll hope that I’ll have no talent left and I’ll have the opportunity to say: I have used all the things you have given me. —Erma Bombeck
38. The fastest way to double your money is to fold it up and put it back in your pocket. — Will Rogers
39. Certain things catch your eye, but only go for those who touch your heart. – Ancient Indian proverb
40. When I hear someone sigh, “Life is hard,” I at all times want to ask, “Compared to what?” -Sydney Harris
41. Everything is beautiful, but not everyone sees it. — Confucius
42. Nurture your mind with great thoughts. Belief in heroism makes heroes. –Benjamin Disraeli
43. When I used to be 5 years old, my mother at all times told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, I used to be asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the task, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon
44. The only person you are meant to turn out to be is the person you select to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. We can not help everyone, but everyone can assist someone. – Ronald Reagan
46. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. —George Addair
47. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; The real tragedy of life is that individuals are afraid of sunshine. —Plato
48. Nothing will work if you don’t do this. — Maja Angelou
49. I alone cannot change the world, but I can solid a stone on the water to create many ripples. —Mother Teresa
50. What we achieve internally will change external reality. —Plutarch

AND version of this text first appeared on TalentSmart.com.