143 Really Good Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective
A really good quote stays with you long after you read it.
It takes a complex feeling or idea and makes it simple to understand.
Finding the right words at the right time can shift your perspective instantly.
These really good quotes capture that impact. Powerful words to give you clarity and motivation when you need it most.
Inspiring Quotes
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. – Michelangelo
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. – Thomas Jefferson
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci
It is never too late to be who you might have been. – George Eliot
Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will. – W. Clement Stone
Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
The only cure for grief is action. – George Henry Lewes
To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do. – Bob Proctor
Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing. – William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of only standing still. – Ancient Chinese Proverb
To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we have never done. – Juan Casimiro
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety. – Abraham Maslow
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength. – Richard Evans
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius
Action eliminates doubt. – Nashid Sharrief
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. – B. Olatunji
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. – Napoleon Hill
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
So many fail because they don’t get started. – W. Clement Stone
Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try. – Gail Devers
The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be. – Loesje
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. – Friedrich Schiller
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. – Mother Teresa
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up. – Regina Brett
Action is eloquence. – William Shakespeare
Deep Quotes About Life
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” — Marcus Aurelius
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” — Marcus Aurelius
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” — Seneca
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” — Seneca
“Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.” — Seneca
“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.” — Seneca
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” — Lao Tzu
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu
“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” — Hermann Hesse
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde
“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
“Most men live lives of quiet desperation.” — Henry David Thoreau
“It’s not that life is short, but that we waste much of it.” — Seneca
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” — Viktor E. Frankl
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor E. Frankl
“He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing.” — Epicurus
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Søren Kierkegaard
Short Aesthetic Quotes
“So it goes.” — Kurt Vonnegut
“Stay gold.” — S.E. Hinton
“The rest is silence.” — William Shakespeare
“Wait and hope.” — Alexandre Dumas
“Call me Ishmael.” — Herman Melville
“I am no bird.” — Charlotte Brontë
“Reader, I married him.” — Charlotte Brontë
“We are all mad here.” — Lewis Carroll
“Curiouser and curiouser.” — Lewis Carroll
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” — William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few.” — William Shakespeare
“Do I dare?” — T.S. Eliot
“April is the cruelest month.” — T.S. Eliot
“Make it new.” — Ezra Pound
“Only connect.” — E.M. Forster
“Things fall apart.” — W.B. Yeats
“Tread softly.” — W.B. Yeats
“I dwell in possibility.” — Emily Dickinson
“Tell all the truth.” — Emily Dickinson
“Beauty is truth.” — John Keats
“She walks in beauty.” — Lord Byron
“Do not go gentle.” — Dylan Thomas
“No man is an island.” — John Donne
“Death, be not proud.” — John Donne
“The sun also rises.” — Ernest Hemingway
“To define is to limit.” — Oscar Wilde
“Pardon my dust.” — Dorothy Parker
Philosophy & Wisdom
“I think, therefore I am.” — René Descartes
“Become who you are.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“The unexamined life.” — Socrates
“Know thyself.” — Socrates
“Wisdom begins in wonder.” — Socrates
“Everything flows.” — Heraclitus
“Knowledge is power.” — Francis Bacon
“Man is born free.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Where there is love…” — Mahatma Gandhi
“…there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Be the change.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Imagination is everything.” — Albert Einstein
“Look deep into nature.” — Albert Einstein
“Nature does not hurry.” — Lao Tzu
“Love conquers all.” — Virgil
“Carpe diem.” (Seize the day) — Horace
Modern & Iconic
“Less is more.” — Mies van der Rohe
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.” — Steve Jobs
“Float like a butterfly.” — Muhammad Ali
“Sting like a bee.” — Muhammad Ali
“In the future…” — Andy Warhol
“…everyone will be famous.” — Andy Warhol
“Let it be.” — Paul McCartney
“All you need is love.” — The Beatles
“I have a dream.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“Free at last.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
“Keep calm and carry on.” — British Government
Motivational Quotes For Success
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” — Stephen Hawking
“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.” — Harvey MacKay
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
“Success is not overnight. It’s when every day you get a little better than the day before.” — Dwayne Johnson
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
“Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.” — Thomas A. Edison
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller
“Successful people keep moving.” — Conrad Hilton
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway.” — Carrie Fisher
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then do better.” — Maya Angelou
“True nobility is being superior to your former self.” — Ernest Hemingway
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it.” — Steve Jobs
“Don’t watch the clock. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
“Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” — Peter Marshall
“Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Action is the foundational key to all success.” — Pablo Picasso
“We become what we think about.” — Earl Nightingale
“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” — Julie Andrews
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” — Tim Notke
“If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.” — Harvey MacKay
