The Best Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Uplift You Out of a Slump

Famous Inspirational Quotes

• “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
• "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." — Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving, & Learning
• “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." — Henri J.M. Nouwen
• "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist." — Oscar Wilde
• "Never regret anything that made you smile." — Mark Twain
• “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” — Hafez
• “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” — Muhammad Ali
• "In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." — Robert Frost
• “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” — Charles M. Schulz
• "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." — Bil Keane
• "It always seems impossible until it's done." — Nelson Mandela
• “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
• "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

Inspiring Quotes from Celebrities

• “Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” — Lady Gaga
• “No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.” — Taylor Swift
• “Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door.” — Brooke Shields
• “The only way to have a life is to commit it to like crazy.” — Angelina Jolie
• “Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There’s only one you.” — Queen Latifah
• "Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is, and you'll see them all around you." — Jon Bon Jovi
• “I was built this way for a reason, so I’m going to use it.” — Simone Biles
• “I have standards I don’t plan on lowering for anybody, including myself.” — Zendaya
• “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs
• "Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." — Judy Garland
• "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'" — Audrey Hepburn
• "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein

Inspirational Quotes About Life

• “I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up, and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life.” — Kerry Washington
• “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde
• “If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.” — Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
• "Sometimes, your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes, your smile can be the source of your joy." — Thich Nhat Hanh
• “True friendship is like a rose. We don’t realize its beauty until it fades.” — Evelyn Loeb
• "Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend." — Bill Watterson
• "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius
• “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.” — Bonnie Prudden
• "Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine." — Mario Fernández
• "You don't always need a plan. Sometimes, you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens." — Mandy Hale
• “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational Quotes About Success

• "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll
• “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”— Norman Vincent Peale
• "Success is not a destination, it's a journey." — Zig Ziglar
• “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou
• “Success only comes to those who dare to attempt.” — Mallika Tripathi
• “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
• “You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character.” — Unknown
• “If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.” — Steven Wright
• “It’s a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon.” — Kermit the Frog
• “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis
• “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey
• "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." — Zig Ziglar
• "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis
• “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the errors that counts.” — Nikki Giovanni
• "Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." — Suzy Kassem

Inspirational Quotes for Courage

• "You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." — Rabindranath Tagore
• "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
• “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow’.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
• "With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” — Neil Gaiman
• “What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill
• “It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.” — Walter Anderson
• "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." — Nora Ephron
• “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings
• “The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.” — Trivia Cunningham
• “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” — Duke Ellington
• “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” — Harper Lee
• "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein