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99 Inspirational Quotes to Change your Life

  • Khushi
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • 7 min read

Hey there... A quick question for you... What do quotes mean to you? For me, quotes have always been something that never failed to inspire or motivate me in times of need, especially during studies. Whenever I didn't feel like studying, I would read motivational quotes and in a minute or so, I was all pumped up to study. Some people might also have found the courage to follow their dreams through quotes. So here are 99 inspirational quotes to inspire you to take action to live the life of your dreams.


  1. "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi

  2. "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." -C.S. Lewis

  3. "The most wasted of days is one without laughter." -E.E. Cummings

  4. "Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile." -Connor Franta

  5. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt

  6. "The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you're not going to stay where you are." -J.P. Morgan

  7. "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." -Paulo Coelho

  8. "You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." -C.S. Lewis

  9. "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you've to keep moving forward." -Martin Luther King Jr.

  10. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." -Helen Keller

  11. "Rise above the storm and you'll find the sunshine." -Mario Fernandez

  12. "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." -A.A. Milne Christopher Robin

  13. "Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow is worse, the day after tomorrow will be sunshine." -Jack Ma

  14. "A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true." -Greg Reid

  15. "There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking." -Brian Tracy

  16. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi

  17. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself." -Groucho Marx

  18. "At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can." -Frida Kahlo

  19. "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best." -St. Jerome

  20. "The road to success is always under construction." -Lily Tomlin

  21. "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus on the light." -Aristotle Onassis

  22. "When life brings big winds of change that almost blow you over, close your eyes, hold on tight, and believe." -Lisa Lieberman-Wang

  23. "Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  24. "Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day." -Bethany Hamilton

  25. "Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you." -Bethany Hamilton

  26. "Impossible is for the unwilling." -John Keats

  27. "Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations." -Zig Ziglar

  28. "Everything you want is on the other side of fear." -Jack Canfield

  29. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein

  30. "When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, give life a thousand reasons to smile." -Charlie Chaplin

  31. "Happiness is not by chance, but by choice." -Jim Rohn

  32. "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." -Maya Angelou

  33. "Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." -Theodore Roosevelt

  34. "You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing." -Maurice Chevalier

  35. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius

  36. "You have to dream before your dreams can come true." -A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

  37. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt

  38. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." -Oprah Winfrey

  39. "If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles." -Wayne Dyer

  40. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney

  41. "Either you run the day, or the day runs you." -Jim Rohn

  42. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein

  43. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present." -Bill Keane

  44. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -George Bernard Shaw

  45. "It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." -Paulo Coelho

  46. "Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway." -Eleanor Roosevelt

  47. "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated." -Maya Angelou

  48. "The only limit to the realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

  49. "Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people." -Roy T. Bennett

  50. "Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes." -Roy T. Bennett

  51. "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience." -Eleanor Roosevelt

  52. "Try a little harder to be a little better." -Gordon B. Hinckley

  53. "It does not matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop." -Confucius

  54. "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." -Marilyn Monroe

  55. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadow will fall behind you." -Walt Whitman

  56. "The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -George Washington Burnap

  57. "Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them." -Steve Maraboli

  58. "Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful." -Roy T. Bennett

  59. "The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams." -Oprah Winfrey

  60. "Everything you can imagine is real." -Pablo Picasso

  61. "Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen." -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  62. "You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." -George Lorimer

  63. "Our life is what our thoughts make it." -Marcus Aurelius

  64. "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask hat makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Howard Thurman

  65. "Never dull your shine for somebody else." -Tyra Banks

  66. "To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done." -Roy T. Bennett

  67. "The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely." -Louisa May Alcott

  68. "Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles." -Charlie Chaplin

  69. "Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible." -Albert Einstein

  70. "You must take life the way it comes to you and make the best of it." -Yann Martel

  71. "In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit." -Anne Frank

  72. "Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." -Gloria Steinem

  73. "You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny." -Roy T. Bennett

  74. "The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood." -Voltaire

  75. "If you don't give up on something you truly believe in, you'll find a way." -Roy T. Bennett

  76. "Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities." -Roy T. Bennett

  77. "There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." -Nelson Mandela

  78. "Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections." -Gerard Way

  79. "You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." -Deepak Chopra

  80. "You become what you think about all day long." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

  81. "What is now proved was once only imagined." -William Blake

  82. "When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful." -Roy T. Bennett

  83. "You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." -Oprah Winfrey

  84. "The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday." -Steve Maraboli

  85. "Nothing will work unless you do." -Maya Angelou

  86. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you're doing, you will be successful." -Albert Schweitzer

  87. "Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy." -Stephen Fry

  88. "To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it." -Charlie Chaplin

  89. "The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude." -William James

  90. "Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good." -Susan Ee

  91. "If you can't you must, and if you must you can." -Anthony Robbins

  92. "One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life." -Joyce Meyer

  93. "You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are." -John Lennon

  94. "How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals." -Roy T. Bennett

  95. "If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse." -Jim Rohn

  96. "We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." -Helen Keller

  97. "No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams." -Roy T. Bennett

  98. "Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain." -Henry Ford

  99. "Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success." -Roy T. Bennett

I hope these quotes gave you some inspiration to take action and change your life.

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