A picture paints a thousand words, but if you combine an inspirational, aspirational quote with a stunning and inspiring image that complements it beautifully, you get the fabulous inspirational picture quotes.
We’ve searched out an exclusive collection of wise words from fabulous, successful people from various walks of life – words that can give you a mantra to get up from the couch and achieve your dreams. These are the words that proven high achievers have kept as their slogans, the words they repeat when their courage is flagging, and these words can be your words.
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”– Dennis P. Kimbro
You may recognize some of them, as a great quote lives on for centuries. Others are from anonymous people who have an excellent way with words. All these words are tweeted and shared massively. These words strike a chord because they touch the heart and mind.
A mixture of quotations from history, culture, and homespun wisdom taken from Tibetan proverbs to captains of industry, selected to provide you with daily inspiration. These words are inspirational by themselves, but we go a step further and team them with a great visual to reinforce the message.
When you talk to another person, over 50% of the message received by you comes from what you see – the expression on their face, the clothes they are wearing, and the gestures they make. Our brains are hard-wired to absorb visual information.
Seriously, most of what you learn comes from what you see—your unconscious brain keys into images. You will absorb the impactful message of these inspiring words more deeply if you see them with a compelling, relevant picture. That’s why we choose our images to reinforce the meaning behind the words giving you the complete package.
Browse our gallery, see what words sing to you, and then go out and share your chosen motivation as widely as you can. Make these words your own as you build a successful, joyful life day by day. We are better together, and a little inspiration and motivation can go a long way to promote a positive mindset across the world.
Inspirational Quotes About Life & Success:
“There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.”– Josiah Gilbert Holland
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”– William James
“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”– Ray Kroc
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”– Lao Tzu
“You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself.”– English Proverb
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”– Winston Churchill
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.”– Erma Bombeck
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”– Will Rogers
“The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.”– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Live each day as if your life had just begun.”– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident.”– Arthur Schopenhauer
“The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.”– Vince Lombardi
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”– Sydney Harris
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”– Benjamin Disraeli
“Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.”– Mahatma Gandhi
“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”– Arthur C. Clarke
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”– Lao Tzu
“Every noble work is at first impossible.”– Thomas Carlyle
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”– John Wooden
“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.”– Larry Winget
“Speak less than you know; have more than you show.”– William Shakespeare
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.”– Sir Claus Moser
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”– John F. Kennedy
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”– Jack Canfield
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”– Carl Bard
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”– Babe Ruth
“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”– Prescott
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”– Stephen Covey
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.”– George Bernard Shaw
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”– Woody Allen
“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”– Dudley Field Malone
“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.”– Albert Einstein
“We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
Motivational Quotes
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”– Aristotle
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”– Aristotle Onassis
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”– Benjamin Disraeli
“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.”– Benny Lewis
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”– Bill Gates
“Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.”– Bobby Unser
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”– Bruce Feirstein
“Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”– Charles Dickens
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”– Coco Chanel
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.”– Colin R. Davis
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”– Booker T. Washington
“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”– Arnold Palmer
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”– Arthur Ashe
“Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.”– Barbara Baron
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”– CS Lewis
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”– Dalai Lama
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.”– Dale Carnegie
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”– David
Brinkley
“There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.”– Edith Wharton
“If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.”– Gurbaksh Chahal
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”– Harriet Beecher Stow
“Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”– Winston Churchill
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”– Henry David Thoreau
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”– Francis Chan
“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”– Joe Kennedy
“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.”– Chris Grosser
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.”– Anatole France
“Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.”– Anonymous
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”– Herman Melville
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”– Jamie Paolinetti
“There is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.”– Jane Smiley
“There are two kinds of people in this world; those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to
make mistakes.”– John C. Maxwell
“If you don’t value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.”– Kim Garst
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.”– Laird Hamilton
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique; just like everyone else.”– Margaret Mead
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”– Margaret Thatcher
“If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.”– Mario Andretti
“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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.”– Mark Twain
“The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.”– Matty Mullens
“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.”– Mike Gafka
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.”– Muhammad Ali
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”– Napoleon Hill
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”– Napoleon Hill
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”– Norman Vincent Peale
“Nothing will work unless you do.”– Maya Angelou
“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
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”– Lolly Daskal
“Every now and then it’s good to stop climbing and appreciate the view from right where you are.”– Lori Deschene
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”– John D. Rockefeller
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”– John Wooden
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”– John Wooden
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”– Norman Vincent Peale
“Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful, and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.”– Orrin Woodward
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”– Oscar Wilde
“Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.”– Pauline Kael
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”– Paulo Coelho
“You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.”– Philippos
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”– Plutarch
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”– Pablo Picasso
“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or you’re out. There is no such thing as life in-between.”– Pat Riley
“Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless.”– Kevin Ngo
“The work you do when you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”– Jessica Hische
“If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.”– Jim Rohn
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.”– John C. Maxwell
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”– Robert Kiyosaki
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”– W. Clement Stone
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”– Walt Disney
“You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.”– Walt Disney
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.”– Washington Irving
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”– Wayne Dyer
“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”– T. Harv Eker
“When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.”– Terry Bradshaw
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”– Theodore Roosevelt
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”– Thomas Edison
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.”– Thomas J. Watson
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”– Thomas Jefferson
“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”– Thomas Huxley
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”– Robert Schuller
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”– Robin Sharma
“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”– Ronald Reagan
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”– Sheryl Sandberg
“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”– Simone de Beauvoir
“Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.”– Unknown
“There are better starters than me, but I’m a strong finisher.”– Usain Bolt
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”– Vidal Sassoon
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”– Vincent van Gogh
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”– Stephen Covey
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”– Stephen R Covey
“Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.”– Stuart Scott
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”– William Butler Yeats
“Do or do not. There is no try.”– Yoda
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”– Orison Swett Marden
“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.””– John Kenneth Galbraith
“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.”– Mark Victor Hansen
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”– Mario Andretti
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”– Charles Schulz
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”– James Dean
“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge
“If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.”– Stephen Covey
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”– Mahatma Gandhi
“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”– Arnold Toynbee
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”– Benjamin Disraeli
“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
“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”– Swami Sivananda
“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”– Thomas J. Watson
“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”– William Arthur Ward
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.”– David Allen
“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
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”– Oprah Winfrey
“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.”– Jacob Riis
“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”– Thomas Fuller
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”– Alice Walker
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.”– Anatole France
“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.”– Ancient Indian Proverb
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”– Anne Frank
“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.”– Anonymous
“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
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”– Zig Ziglar
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”– Abraham Lincoln
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”– Albert Einstein
Encouraging Quotes
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
Mark Cuban
The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.
Brennan Manning
I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I’m pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.
Jack Welch
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.
Solomon
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
It was a very emotional dinner… Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.
Lil’ Kim
There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Helen Keller
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
Helen Keller
Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.
John Lennon
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.
Colonel Sanders
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C. S. Lewis
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
John C. Maxwell
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
Vince Lombardi
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
Dale Carnegie
How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
Hafez
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim Rohn
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
John D. Rockefeller
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Earl Nightingale
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality.
Wayne Dyer
If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
Phil McGraw
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
Football doesn’t build character, it reveals character.
Marv Levy
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
