450 Good Quotes to Inspire and Motivate You

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Life is full of ups and downs. Sometimes we need a little push to keep going. Here are 450 good quotes to inspire and motivate you:

 

Motivational Quotes

1. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

2. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

3. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

4. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

5. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

6. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

7. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

8. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

9. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

10. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

 

Inspirational Quotes

11. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

12. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

13. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

14. “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy

15. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

16. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

17. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

18. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

19. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

20. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

 

Life Quotes

21. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

22. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost

23. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

24. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

26. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

27. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

28. “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell

29. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

30. “Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany

Success Quotes31. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

32. “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

33. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

34. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

35. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

36. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

37. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett

38. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis

39. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

40. “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” – Anonymous

 

Positive Quotes

41. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

42. “Positivity always wins…Always.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

43. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson

44. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius

45. “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” – Zig Ziglar

46. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” – Stephen Richards

47. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James

48. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard

49. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton

50. “A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes.” – Wade Boggs

51. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis

52. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

53. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

54. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

55. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” – Carol Burnett

56. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

57. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

58. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

59. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

60. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

 

Wisdom Quotes

61. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

62. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

63. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

64. “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare

65. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius

66. “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

67. “The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” – Claude Levi-Strauss

68. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” – Jimi Hendrix

69. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov

70. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

 

Love Quotes

71. “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn

72. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

73. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

74. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” – Victor Hugo

75. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

76. “Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.” – Paulo Coelho

77. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more.” – Nicholas Sparks

78. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” – Nicholas Sparks

79. “Love is a friendship set to music.” – Joseph Campbell

80. “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – Nat King Cole

 

Friendship Quotes

81. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

82. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” – C.S. Lewis

83. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson

84. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” – Elbert Hubbard

85. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” – Woodrow Wilson

86. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare

87. “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey

88. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” – Muhammad Ali

89. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia

90. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” – Khalil Gibran

 

Happiness Quotes

91. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” – Carrie Jones

92. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

93. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn

94. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

95. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius

96. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn

97. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan

98. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn

99. “The secret to happiness is to not expect too much.” – Roy T. Bennett

100. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz

101. “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

102. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – E.E. Cummings

103. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

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

105. “Courage is found in unlikely places.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

106. “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

107. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

108. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou

109. “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

 

Hope Quotes

111. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

112. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson

113. “Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

114. “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle

115. “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

116. “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” – Samuel Smiles

117. “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.” – Francis Bacon

118. “Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.” – Pliny the Elder

119. “Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.” – Samuel Smiles

120. “Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” – Tertullian

 

Change Quotes

121. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

122. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts

123. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy

124. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill

125. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein

126. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama

127. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy

128. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

129. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” – John C. Maxwell

130. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

 

Leadership Quotes

131. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

132. “Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek

133. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

134. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

135. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow

136. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn

137. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell

138. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

139. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy

140. “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Time Quotes

141. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy

142. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” – William Penn

143. “Lost time is never found again.” – Benjamin Franklin

144. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” – Harvey Mackay

145. “The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Buddha

146. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu

147. “Time is the wisest counselor of all.” – Pericles

148. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” – Stephen R. Covey

149. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” – Theophrastus

150. “Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Bil Keane

151. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

152. “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

153. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

154. “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

155. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” – John Dewey

156. “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think – rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” – Bill Beattie

157. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X

158. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” – Albert Einstein

159. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

160. “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” – Albert Einstein

 

Family Quotes

161. “Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox

162. “The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.” – Charles Kuralt

163. “Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” – David Ogden Stiers

164. “Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” – Anthony Brandt

165. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana

166. “In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

167. “Family is the most important thing in the world.” – Princess Diana

168. “The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.” – Robert Frost

169. “The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

170. “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.” – Mario Puzo

 

Dreams Quotes

171. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

172. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

173. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” – Colin Powell

174. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

175. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes

176. “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” – Henry David Thoreau

177. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

178. “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

179. “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce

180. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” – John Lennon

 

Perseverance Quotes

181. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

182. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein

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

184. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews

185. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

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

187. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich

188. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius

189. “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

190. “The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli

 

Creativity Quotes

191. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein

192. “The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

193. “Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought.” – Albert Einstein

194. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

195. “Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” – Albert Einstein

196. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams

197. “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” – Albert Einstein

198. “Creativity is just connecting things.” – Steve Jobs

199. “Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.” – Bryant H. McGill

200. “Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” – Dorothy Parker

201. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” – Anonymous

202. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher

203. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” – Cicero

204. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” – William Arthur Ward

205. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” – Aesop

206. “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.” – Zig Ziglar

207. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie

208. “Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.” – Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

209. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” – Rumi

210. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” – Doris Day

 

Kindness Quotes

211. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain

212. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop

213. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu

214. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama

215. “Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

216. “Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.” – Amelia Barr

217. “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” – William Arthur Ward

218. “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

219. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.” – Albert Schweitzer

220. “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin

 

Forgiveness Quotes

221. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

222. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope

223. “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

224. “The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.” – Unknown

225. “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Boese

226. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” – Mark Twain

227. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Lewis B. Smedes

228. “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” – Indira Gandhi

229. “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” – Hannah Arendt

230. “Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” – Hannah More

 

Patience Quotes

231. “Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

232. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

233. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Saint Augustine

234. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

235. “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” – David G. Allen

236. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams

237. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

238. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi

239. “Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.” – Guy Kawasaki

240. “Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.” – Swahili Proverb

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Humility Quotes241. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis

242. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” – Rick Warren

243. “Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.” – Confucius

244. “A great man is always willing to be little.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

245. “Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience.” – Max Lucado

246. “Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success.” – Rick Pitino

247. “Humility is the greatest quality that a man can have, and arrogance is undoubtedly the worst.” – Maulana W. Khan

248. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” – Ken Blanchard

249. “Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.” – Saint Augustine

250. “Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.” – George Arliss

251. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” – C.S. Lewis

252. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” – Oprah Winfrey

253. “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” – Spencer Johnson

254. “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.” – Brené Brown

255. “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

256. “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

257. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” – Brian Tracy

258. “Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching, and doing as you say you would do.” – Roy T. Bennett

259. “Integrity is the seed for achievement. It is the principle that never fails.” – Earl Nightingale

260. “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” – Ayn Rand

 

Confidence Quotes

261. “Confidence is not ‘They will like me.’ Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t.’” – Christina Grimmie

262. “Confidence is a superpower. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.” – Unknown

263. “Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud.” – Unknown

264. “Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.” – Sabrina Carpenter

265. “Confidence is not ‘they will like me.’ Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t.’” – Unknown

266. “Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.” – Brian Tracy

267. “Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.” – Richard Kline

268. “Confidence is the ability to feel beautiful, without needing someone to tell you.” – Unknown

269. “Confidence is not about everyone liking you; it’s about being okay if they don’t.” – Unknown

270. “Confidence is not ‘I will win.’ Confidence is ‘I will try my hardest.’” – Unknown

 

Resilience Quotes

271. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” – Robert Jordan

272. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” – Elizabeth Edwards

273. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult

274. “Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.” – Yasmin Mogahed

275. “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway

276. “Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.” – Sharon Salzberg

277. “Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms.” – Jean Chatzky

278. “Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected.” – Jamais Cascio

279. “Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.” – Wes Fesler

280. “Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.” – Jeffrey Gitomer

 

Growth Quotes

281. “The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change.” – C. JoyBell C.

282. “Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale

283. “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” – Calvin Coolidge

284. “Growth is the only evidence of life.” – John Henry Newman

285. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

286. “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

287. “Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier

288. “All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” – Ellen Glasgow

289. “The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.” – Jen Sincero

290. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney

 

Empathy Quotes

291. “Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.” – Alfred Adler

292. “Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” – Mohsin Hamid

293. “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.” – Barack Obama

294. “Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.” – Max Carver

295. “Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You’re not alone.’” – Brené Brown

296. “Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it’s accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another’s eyes or heart.” – Sue Monk Kidd

297. “Empathy is connection; it’s a ladder out of the shame hole.” – Brené Brown

298. “Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes.” – Daniel H. Pink

299. “Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.” – Eric Zorn

300. “Empathy is the antidote to shame. The two most powerful words when we’re in struggle: me too.” – Brené Brown

301. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama

302. “Compassion is the basis of morality.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

303. “Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.” – Dalai Lama

304. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” – Albert Schweitzer

305. “Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.” – Yasmin Mogahed

306. “Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.” – Thomas Merton

307. “Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.” – Arthur Jersild

308. “Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.” – Dalai Lama

309. “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.” – Pema Chödrön

310. “Compassion is the chief law of human existence.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

Wisdom Quotes

311. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

312. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

313. “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” – Socrates

314. “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” – Doug Larson

315. “The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

316. “Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” – Thomas J. Watson

317. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.” – David Starr Jordan

318. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein

319. “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.” – Leonardo da Vinci

320. “Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.” – William Wordsworth

 

Courage Quotes

321. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

323. “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

324. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou

325. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Theodore Roosevelt

326. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

327. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

328. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.” – Ruth Gordon

329. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist

330. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon

 

Honesty Quotes

331. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson

332. “Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” – James E. Faust

333. “Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.” – James Altucher

334. “Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.” – Mark Twain

335. “Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don’t expect it from cheap people.” – Warren Buffett

336. “Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” – Mary Kay Ash

337. “Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson

338. “Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.” – Steve Landesberg

339. “Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.” – Ken Blanchard

340. “Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

 

Perseverance Quotes

341. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

342. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews

343. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.” – Newt Gingrich

344. “Perseverance is stubbornness with a purpose.” – Josh Shipp

345. “Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.” – Elizabeth George

346. “Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs.” – Victor Hugo

347. “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

348. “Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

349. “Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.” – Lao Tzu

350. “Perseverance is not an issue of talent. It is not an issue of time. It is about finishing. Talent provides hope for accomplishment, but perseverance guarantees it.” – Doug Firebaugh

351. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” – Anonymous

352. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher

353. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” – Cicero

354. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” – William Arthur Ward

355. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” – Aesop

356. “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions.” – Zig Ziglar

357. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie

358. “Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.” – Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

359. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” – Rumi

360. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” – Doris Day

 

Kindness Quotes

361. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain

362. “Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

363. “Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.” – Amelia Barr

364. “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

365. “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin

366. “Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

367. “Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

368. “Kindness is the ability to know what the right thing to do is and having the courage to do it!” – RAKtivist

369. “Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran

370. “Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give.” – Unknown

 

Forgiveness Quotes

371. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” – Mark Twain

372. “Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

373. “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr

374. “Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.” – Jewel

375. “Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” – Hannah More

376. “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” – Hannah Arendt

377. “Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.” – Josh McDowell

378. “Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.” – George MacDonald

379. “Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.” – Isaac Friedmann

380. “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” – Indira Gandhi

 

Patience Quotes

381. “Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

382. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” – Aristotle

383. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Saint Augustine

384. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

385. “Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.” – Guy Kawasaki

386. “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” – David G. Allen

387. “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is ‘timing’ it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” – Fulton J. Sheen

388. “Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.” – Plautus

389. “Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.” – Barbara Johnson

390. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.” – Unknown

 

Humility Quotes

391. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis

392. “Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.” – Confucius

393. “Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success.” – Rick Pitino

394. “Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience.” – Max Lucado

395. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” – Ken Blanchard

396. “Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.” – Saint Augustine

397. “Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.” – George Arliss

398. “Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.” – Charles Spurgeon

399. “Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.” – Madeleine L’Engle

400. “Humility is the surest sign of strength.” – Thomas Merton

401. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” – C.S. Lewis

402. “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” – Spencer Johnson

403. “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.” – Brené Brown

404. “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

405. “Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching, and doing as you say you would do.” – Roy T. Bennett

406. “Integrity is the seed for achievement. It is the principle that never fails.” – Earl Nightingale

407. “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” – Ayn Rand

408. “Integrity is keeping a commitment even after the circumstances under which the commitment was made have changed.” – David Jeremiah

409. “Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.” – Brian Tracy

410. “Integrity is doing what you say you are going to do.” – Unknown

 

Confidence Quotes

411. “Confidence is not ‘They will like me’. Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t’.” – Christina Grimmie

412. “Confidence is a superpower. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.” – Unknown

413. “Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud.” – Unknown

414. “Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.” – Sabrina Carpenter

415. “Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.” – Brian Tracy

416. “Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.” – Richard Kline

417. “Confidence is the ability to feel beautiful, without needing someone to tell you.” – Unknown

418. “Confidence is not about everyone liking you; it’s about being okay if they don’t.” – Unknown

419. “Confidence is not ‘I will win.’ Confidence is ‘I will try my hardest.’” – Unknown

420. “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” – Vince Lombardi

 

Resilience Quotes

421. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” – Elizabeth Edwards

422. “Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.” – Yasmin Mogahed

423. “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” – Mary Holloway

424. “Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others.” – Sharon Salzberg

425. “Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms.” – Jean Chatzky

426. “Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected.” – Jamais Cascio

427. “Resilience is the ability to attack while running away.” – Wes Fesler

428. “Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.” – Jeffrey Gitomer

429. “Resilience is about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” – Jamais Cascio

430. “Resilience is the capacity of a system, enterprise, or person to maintain its core purpose and integrity in the face of dramatically changed circumstances.” – Andrew Zolli

 

Growth Quotes

431. “Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale

432. “Growth is the only evidence of life.” – John Henry Newman

433. “Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier

434. “Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” – James Cash Penney

435. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” – Ginni Rometty

436. “Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not.” – John C. Maxwell

437. “Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.” – Pearl S. Buck

438. “Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.” – Julia Cameron

439. “Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.” – Gail Sheehy

440. “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” – Edward Abbey

 

Empathy Quotes

441. “Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.” – Alfred Adler

442. “Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” – Mohsin Hamid

443. “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.” – Barack Obama

444. “Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.” – Max Carver

445. “Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ‘You’re not alone.’” – Brené Brown

446. “Empathy is connection; it’s a ladder out of the shame hole.” – Brené Brown

447. “Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes.” – Daniel H. Pink

448. “Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.” – Eric Zorn

449. “Empathy is the antidote to shame. The two most powerful words when we’re in struggle: me too.” – Brené Brown

450. “Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.” – Neil Gaiman

These 450 good quotes cover a wide range of topics and offer wisdom, inspiration, and motivation for various aspects of life. Whether you’re seeking encouragement, guidance, or simply a new perspective, these quotes can provide valuable insights.

Remember, the power of a quote lies not just in its words, but in how you apply its message to your own life. Let these quotes inspire you to grow, persevere, and make positive changes in your life and the lives of others.