Top 50 Inspirational & Motivational Quotes

We all need some inspirational and motivational words every now and then. Enjoy these inspirational sayings, and be sure to check out Muscle Prodigy TV for great motivational videos.

1) “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

2) “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”-Reinhold Niebuhr

3) “There’s no next time. It’s now or never.”- Author Unknown

4) “To create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with ‘next time’.”- Author Unknown

5) “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”- Mahatma Gandhi

6) “Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”- James Conant

7) “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”- Anais Nin

8) “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”- Soren Kierkegaard

9) “I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.”- Werner Braun

10) “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”- T.S. Eliot

11) “Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well”- Josh Billings

12) “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”- Steve Jobs

13) “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”- Thomas A. Edison

14) “Always do what you are afraid to do.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

15) “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 which has opened for us.”- Helen Keller

16) “We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.”- Norman Vincent Peale

17) “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”- Albert Schweitzer

18) “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”- David Brinkley

19) “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”- Norman Vincent Peal

20) “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”- Colin Powell

21) “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”- Jim Rohn

22) “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

23) “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”- Winston Churchill

24) “Worrying is the same thing as banging your head against the wall. It only feels good when you stop.”- John Powers

25) “Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”- Benjamin Franklin

26) “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”- Chinese Proverbs

27) “Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”- Glenn Turner

28) “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”- Vince Lombardi

29) “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”- Thomas Jefferson

30) “Success is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude.”- Author Unknown

31) “All great changes are preceded by chaos.”- Deepak Chopra

32) “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling”- Margaret Runbeck

33) “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”- George Woodberry

34) “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”- Thomas A. Edison

35) “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”- Martin Luther King

36) “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”- Wayne Gretzky

37) “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”- Michael Jordan

38) “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

39) “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”- Lyndon Johnson

40) “To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice”- Khalil Gibran

41) “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”- Lance Armstrong

42) “If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”- Will Rogers

43) “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”- Dr. Brothers

44) “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”- Mark Twain

45) “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”- Winston Churchill

46) “Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.”- George Washington Carver

47) “You can if you think you can.”- Marcus Tullius Cicero

48) “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”- Erica Mann Jong

49) “Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.”- Author Unknown

50) “The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.”- George Herbert