204 Inspirational Quotes to Keep You Moving

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Life gets tough. Sometimes all we need is a word of wisdom. Check out these inspirational quotes to keep you moving.

204.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

W.P. Kinsella

203.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

Antoine De Saint – Exupery

202.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you’ve got.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

201.

Time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted.

John Lennon

200.

The best things in life aren’t things.

Anonymous

199.

The things you own end up owning you.

Tyler Durden

198.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

197.

We meet people for a reason. Either they’re a blessing or a lesson.

Anonymous

everything happens for a reason

196.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

195.

When life puts you on tough situations, don’t say, ìWhy me?î Just Say, ìTry me!î

Anonymous

you are powerful

194.

Worrying is stupid. It’s like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

Wiz Khalifa

193.

The most important thing, darling, is to lead a fabulous life. As long as it’s fabulous, I don’t care how long it is.

Freddie Mercury

192.

The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them.

Anonymous

191.

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.

Anonymous

190.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Michael Jackson

189.

Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.

Anonymous

just keep moving

188.

Never let success get to your head, never let failure get to your heart.

Anonymous

187.

A woman’s loyalty is tested when her man has nothing. A man’s loyalty is tested when he has everything.

Anonymous

186.

When you say yes to others make sure you are not saying no to yourself.

Paulo Coelho

185.

Always listen to your heart. Even though it is on your left side, it will always be right.

Anonymous

intuition

184.

It’s funny how sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for, are the ones behind the trigger.

Taylor Swift

183.

Sometimes all you have to do is forget what you feel and remember what you deserve.

Anonymous

182.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Coco Chanel

be unique

181.

If someone says no, you’re talking to the wrong person.

Kris Jenner

180.

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.

Nicole Sobon

it’s a new day

179.

When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.

Harley Davidson

178.

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Mark Twain

177.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Ernest Hemingway

faith

176.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

Chuck Palahniuk

175.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Paulo Coelho

be open to new ideas

174.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to be over, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.

Anonymous

173.

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.

Anonymous

172.

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.

Betty Reese

171.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Dr. Seuss

shine

170.

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

Mae West

169.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.

John Lennon

stay positive

168.

If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.

Melody Carstairs

167.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Charles Bukowski

166.

It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.

Tyler Durden

165.

Work until your idols become your rivals.

Anonymous

anything is possible

164.

Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

Lauren Hutton

163.

Great things never came from comfort zones.

Anonymous

break ’em

162.

You will never influence the world by trying to be like it.

Anonymous

161.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Victor Hugo

160.

A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory.

Anonymous

159.

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get!

Lewis Carroll

158.

I can’t fix the world’s problems. But I will do what I can to make a difference where I can.

Anonymous

157.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Maya Angelou

156.

When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Theodore Roosevelt

don’t let go

155.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Paul Klee

154.

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

Garth Stein

153.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Lou Holtz

152.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

fight

151.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Lou Holtz

150.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Neil Gaiman

149.

It might take a year. It might take a day. But, what’s meant to be will always find a way.

Anonymous

148.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

147.

When it rains – look for rainbows. When it’s dark – look for stars.

Anonymous

146.

The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or herself, without the threat of you leaving.

Kai

145.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.

 

Robert Frost

 

144.

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

Wayne Gretzky

143.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

John Lennon

142.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

 

Alice Walker

 

yes you do

141.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese Proverb

now

140.

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

Steve Jobs

139.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

138.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus

sail away

137.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

136.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

135.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

 

Mark Twain

 

134.

The best revenge is massive success.

Frank Sinatra

133.

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

George Addair

132.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

131.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

130.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Maya Angelou

129.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

128.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Being willing is not enough, we must do.

Leonardo da Vinci

take action

127.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

126.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

Roger Staubach

125.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Farrah Gray

124.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

123.

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.

 

Oprah Winfrey

 

gratitude

122.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Dalai Lama

121.

Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after ten years; Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.

Frank Underwood

120.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

119.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

118.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

Tony Robbins

117.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

 

Ayn Rand

 

116.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

stay strong

115.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”

 

Audrey Hepburn

 

114.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

113.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis

112.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

Muhammad Ali

111.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

Kyle Chandler

110.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Napoleon Hill

109.

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.

Anonymous

108.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas A. Edison

and then there was light

107.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

106.

If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.

Kim Garst

105.

If you raise your energy people will be pulled to you, when they show up, bill ëem!

Stuart Wilde

104.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

103.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Bruce Feirstein

102.

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

 

Lolly Daskal

 

101.

You can do anything, but not everything.

David Allen

100.

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

Guy Kawasaki

the world needs you

99.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Bruce Lee

98.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn

97.

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

 

Robert Kiyosaki

 

96.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

Jim Rohn

95.

Do today what others won’t so you can live tomorrow like others can’t.

Anonymous

94.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

93.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Dr. Robert Schuller

92.

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

forward, forward is the battle cry

91.

You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.

Henry David Thoreau

90.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

 

Napoleon Hill

 

89.

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Karen Lamb

88.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

 

George Eliot

 

87.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Gary Player

86.

Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

Russell Warren

85.

Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.

Brian Tracy

84.

Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after ten years; Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.

Frank Underwood

83.

SuccessÖ seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

Conrad Hilton

82.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

John F. Kennedy

81.

If at first you don’t succeed, get a bigger hammer.

Alan Lewis

80.

The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in the battle.

Anonymous

79.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

78.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

77.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

see

76.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Benjamin Franklin

get ready

75.

That’s how you devour a whale Doug, one bite at a time.

 

Frank Underwood

 

74.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

73.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

 

Abraham Maslow

 

72.

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

Aristotle

71.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing and that’s why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

70.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Ellen Parr

69.

The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.

Hasidic Proverb

trust yourself

68.

That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

67.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

66.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Jimmy Johnson

65.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

64.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

63.

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

62.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Seneca

61.

I am the captain of my soul. I am the master of my faith.

 

William Ernest Henley

 

60.

Fortune favors the bold.

Virgil

59.

If you worry about yesterday’s failures, then today’s successes will be few.

Anonymous

today is a new day

58.

Don’t focus on how to spend less money, focus on how to make more money.

Lyndon Forman

57.

The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

56.

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.

John Wooden

55.

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

54.

As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.

 

Donald Trump

 

53.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

 

Martha Stewart

 

52.

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

 

Maya Angelou

 

51.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tzu

the second step is easier

50.

I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.

Ancient Persian Proverb

49.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

William B. Sprague

48.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Goethe

47.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

46.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill

how bad do you want success?

45.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

Isaac B. Singer

44.

Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

Anonymous

43.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Mark Twain

42.

Nobody can insult you without your consent.

Eleonor Roosevelt

41.

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

40.

Whenever you find the whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.

Anonymous

39.

How quickly poor grades are forgotten in the shadow of power and wealth.

Frank Underwood

38.

Do first things first, and second things not at all.

Peter Drucker

37.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

36.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Lauren Bacall

35.

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

34.

Donít go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

take responsibility

33.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

32.

It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.

Bob Proctor

31.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

30.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

29.

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

Machiavelli

28.

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

attitude is everything

27.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

26.

That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Abraham Lincoln

25.

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Anonymous

24.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucious

23.

If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.

Buddha

give

22.

So you have some enemiesÖ good, that means you stood up for something!

Winston Churchill

21.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.

Bill Gates

20.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

19.

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

18.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else.

Judy Garland

17.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears – by listening to them.

Judy Garland

16.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react.

John Maxwell

15.

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.

Charles Darwin

adapt

14.

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.

 

Chinese Proverb

 

13.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

12.

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.

Albert Einstein

11.

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

Steve Maraboli

10.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.

Lao Tzu

9.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

 

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

8.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle Onassis

7.

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

Alan Kay

6.

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

Arnold Schwartzenegger

5.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

4.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

3.

Of all the things I hold in high regard, rules are not one of them.

Frank Underwood

2.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

Maya Angelou

1.

The best is yet to come…

 

Frank Sinatra

 

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