Inspiring words to motivate you through your day

Take it from these famous people and their inspirational words to lift your mood, curated by the Upspirity review team.

"People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one." - Kevin Kline

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." -- Mark Twain

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong." - Abraham Lincoln

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."- Robert Collier

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others." -- Audrey Hepburn

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." -- Thomas J. Watson

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." -- John Quincy Adams

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." -- Michael John Bobak

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." -- Oprah Winfrey

"You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing." -- Philippos

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work."-Colin Powell

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." -Pablo Picasso

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." -- Mark Zuckerberg

"We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." -- Earl Nightingale

"Do one thing every day that scares you." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."- Vidal Sassoon

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." -- John D. Rockefeller

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."--Steve Jobs

"Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once." -- Drew Houston

"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

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow."- Helen Keller

"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." -- Mark Caine

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody." -- Mother Teresa

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