There's only so much that your morning cup of joe can do for your day. Sure that extra burst of caffeine is the perfect kickstart, but sometimes we need a little more than that. Hey, we all have bad days every once in a while, and sometimes those bad days call for a little pick-me-up. Speaking of, there's no better way to lift up your mood than by reading some inspirational quotes! We created a list of the best ones that are short enough for you to get the message.
Each of these meaningful, memorable sayings is intended to kick you into high gear and motivate you for the day, week, or month ahead. (Plus, many double as excellent Instagram captions!) There are happy quotes here about life, like this saying from Albert Einstein: "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." And there are inspiring love quotes on our list, too. Just take Lucille Ball's words, for instance: "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." Best friend quotes, family quotes, and gratitude quotes abound here as well—and we're certain that poetry lovers will feel particularly inspired by these beloved lines from Langston Hughes: "Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."
Of course, adding coffee is never a bad idea. Pour yourself an iced coffee, then read through these wise words to add even more pep in your step!
Walt Disney
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Be the best of whatever you are.”
Emily Dickinson
“Forever is composed of nows.”
Norton Juster, ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’
“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
Rosa Parks
“To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step.”
Paulo Coehlo
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We need not wait to see what others do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One must be something to do something.”
Maya Angelou
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
Viola Davis
“All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.”
Sigmund Freud
“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Esteé Lauder
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
Pablo Picasso
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Deepak Chopra
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
William James
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
Winston Churchill
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Albert Einstein
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Ella Fitzgerald
"Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do."
Malala Yousafzai
"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality."
Jim Rohn
"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
Langston Hughes
"Hold fast to dreams /
For if dreams die /
Life is a broken-winged bird /
That cannot fly."
Oprah Winfrey
"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."
Rosa Parks
"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."
Joseph Campbell
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Helen Keller
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
Jimmy Dean
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
Maya Angelou
"Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."
Camilla Eyring Kimball
"You do not find the happy life. You make it."
C.S. Lewis
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
Amy Poehler
"Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'"
Jennifer Lopez
"You get what you give."
Michael Altshuler
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
Sojourner Truth
"Truth is powerful and it prevails."
Audrey Hepburn
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'"
Michael Jordan
"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
Oscar Wilde
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
George Bernard Shaw
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
Pablo Picasso
"Everything you can imagine is real."
Hoda Kotb
"Life is a series of baby steps."
Dolly Parton
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
Lucille Ball
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line."
Carol Burnett
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
Princess Diana
"Lead from the heart, not the head."
Zig Ziglar
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
Meghan Markle
"You are enough just as you are."
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