350 Inspirational Quotes To Spark Creativity & Lift You Up

Finding motivation can be hard sometimes. It is often the times when we really need inspiration that we find ourselves struggling to stay afloat. Setting up and running your own business can be especially challenging. Such a large achievement is not without its drawbacks. It can leave you wondering, where do we go from here?

Feeling uninspired? We have 350 inspirational quotes to get the creative juices going. So push aside that self-doubt, and have a read through our selection of inspirational quotes. This is a time to reflect on all your achievements and remind yourself just how capable you are. You have come so far, and there is so much more room to grow. Here are some words of wisdom to get back your glow.

Inspirational Quotes From Iconic Creatives

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.”– Pablo Picasso
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” –Frida Kahlo
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” –John Lennon
“Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.” – Pablo Picasso
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt Disney
“Creativity is discontent translated into arts.”– Eric Hoffer
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” – Plutarch
“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross
“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”- Frida Kahlo
“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” – Auguste Rodin
“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” -Bob Marley
“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite – getting something down”– Julia Cameron
“Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt
“If it doesn’t matter, get rid of it. If you can’t get rid of it, it matters.”- Banksy
“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.” – Neil Gaiman
“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” -Dr. Seuss
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” – Andy Warhol
“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”- Frida Kahlo
“I couldn’t give you something mediocre even if that’s all you asked for.”– Michelangelo
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” –Pablo Picasso
“Ideas come from daydreaming. They come from drifting. They come from that moment where you’re just sitting there going, ‘well, everybody knows if a werewolf bites you, you turn into a wolf when the moon is full. What happens if a werewolf bites a goldfish?’ The trouble with these days is it’s really hard to get bored…there’s all sorts of wonderful TV at your fingertips and it’s really hard to get bored…put [your] phone away, go for long boring walks, actually try to find the space to get bored in. That’s what I’ve started telling people who are like, ‘I want to be a writer!’, good. Get bored.”– Neil Gaiman
“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”– William Shakespeare
“I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it.”- Banksy
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” –Vincent van Gogh
“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.” – Helen Frankenthaler
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” – Frida Kahlo
“Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting doesn’t always lead to action. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mould and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon.” – Judy Chicago
“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.” — Stephen King
“The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.” – Paul Klee
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.” – Edgar Degas
“Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.” – Anni Albers
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” –John Lennon
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” – Frida Kahlo
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” – René Magritte
“The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.” – Edgar Degas
“What keeps my heart awake is colourful silence.” – Claude Monet
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” –Farrah Gray
“It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.” – J. M. W. Turner
“Look at life with the eyes of a child.” – Henri Matisse
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” — J.K. Rowling
“Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say ‘almost’ because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor’s ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea.”- Barbara Hepworth
“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done”– Austin Kleon
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” – Oscar Wilde
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” – Lucian Freud
“What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.” – Amadeo Modigliani
“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
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” –George Eliot
“The best revenge is massive success.” –Frank Sinatra
“While drawing I discover what I really want to say.” – Dario Fo
“I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.” – Bob Ross
“When it is working, you completely go into another place, you’re tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That’s what it’s all about.”– Keith Haring
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” –Audrey Hepburn
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” –Plato
“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” – Joan Miró
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” – Marc Chagall
“There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky

Words Of Wisdom From Public Figures

“If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed. The Vision Pulls You.” – Steve Jobs
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” –Woody Allen
“Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice”– Phil Cousineau
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”- Michelle Obama
“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.” –Jesse Owens
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” –Maya Angelou
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.”- Maya Angelou
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” –Albert Einstein
“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” -Barack Obama
“Whether You Think You Can Or Think You Can’t, You’re Right.” – Henry Ford
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston S. Churchill
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after awhile. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.”– Steve Jobs
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” -Oprah Winfrey
“To try and fail is at least to learn. To fail to try is to suffer the loss of what might have been”– Benjamin Franklin
“Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, God-like, feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us. It’s very simple. This is what I believe, and I’m willing to die for it.”- Will Smith
“Creativity is contagious – Pass it on” – Albert Einstein
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” -Steve Jobs
“You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” –Erica Jong
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” –Amelia Earhart
“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.”- Nikki Giovanni
“I failed my way to success.” -Thomas Edison
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” -Mother Teresa
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” –Jim Rohn

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” –Arthur Ashe
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” –Stephen Covey
“You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.”- Diana Ross
“Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” –Henry Ford
“It’s all about the work, … Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.”- Russell Simmons
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” -James Cameron
“You become what you believe.” –Oprah Winfrey
“Whenever I feel bad, I use that feeling to motivate me to work harder. I only allow myself one day to feel sorry for myself. When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, ‘What are you gonna do about it?’ I use the negativity to fuel the transformation into a better me.”- Beyonce
“What You Lack In Talent Can Be Made Up With Desire, Hustle And Giving 110% All The Time.” – Don Zimmer
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” –Dalai Lama
“If I was going to be successful, I had to be successful with myself. I couldn’t be successful doing what other people were doing…The worst thing to be is as successful as someone else. That’s a very difficult thing to upkeep and very tiring”- Jay-Z
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” -Tony Robbins
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” -Mother Teresa
“One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.”– Edward de Bono
“We May Encounter Many Defeats But We Must Not Be Defeated.” – Maya Angelou
“A great figure or physique is nice, but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.”- Vivica A Fox
“The difficultly lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones”– John Maynard Keynes
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle
“Women need to celebrate their God-given beauty instead of always trying to be something else.”- Iman
“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
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” –Gloria Steinem
“The important thing is to realize that no matter what people’s opinions may be, they’re only just that – people’s opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that.”- Mary J Blige
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” –Henry David Thoreau
“There Are No Limits To What You Can Accomplish, Except The Limits You Place On Your Own Thinking.” – Brian Tracy
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” -Charles Swindoll
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”- Barack Obama
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success” – Henry Ford
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” –Steve Jobs
“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
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainty” – Erich Fromm
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” –Tony Robbins
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” –Jamie Paolinetti
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” –Beverly Sills
“What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” –Bob Dylan
“We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.”- Beyonce
“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
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.” -Anne Frank
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas A. Edison
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” –Les Brown
“You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal Or To Dream A New Dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” –Joshua J. Marine
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” –Booker T. Washington
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

On screen Thought Provokers

“Do, or do not. There is no “try”.” – Yoda, from Star Wars
“Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” – from What a Girl Wants
“It ain’t about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done.” – Rocky, from Rocky Balboa
“Venture outside your comfort zone. The rewards are worth it.”- from Rapunzel
“Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” – Rafiki, from The Lion King
“It’s what you do right now that makes a difference.” – from Black Hawk Down
“It would just make my heart soar if someone out there saw this and she said to herself: be strong, trust yourself, love yourself. Conquer your fears. Just go after what you want and act fast, because life just isn’t that long.”- from The Office
“You control your destiny — you don’t need magic to do it. And there are no magical shortcuts to solving your problems.”- from Brave
“We are who we choose to be.” – Green Goblin, from Spider-Man
“It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If you only draw wisdom from one place, it becomes rigid and stale. Understanding others, the other elements and the other nations, will help you become whole.” —Uncle Iroh, Avatar, from Last Airbender
“You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.” – White Queen, from Alice in Wonderland
“Worrying means you suffer twice.”- from Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
“There’s no place like home.” – from The Wizard of Oz
“No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it.”- from Mulan
“Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Do not be so quick to deal out death in judgment.” —Gandalf, from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
“My momma always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.”” – from Forrest Gump
“Have courage and be kind.”- from Cinderella
“Don’t be sorry, be fierce.”- from Rupaul’s Drag Race
“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.” —Joker, from The Dark Knight
“All it takes is faith and trust.”- from Peter Pan
“I don’t want to survive, I want to live!”- from Wall-E
“Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” —Ron Swanson, from Parks and Recreation
“Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.”- from It’s a Wonderful Life
“Don’t just fly, soar.”- from Dumbo
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” – from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“The stuff that dreams are made of.” – from The Maltese Falcon
“Snap out of it!” – from Moonstruck
“Treat yo’self.”- from Parks and Recreation
“We’re all stories in the end, we just have to make it a good one.” —The Doctor, from Doctor Who
“I care. I care a lot. It’s kinda my thing.”- from Parks and Recreation
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris, from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” – from The Pride of the Yankees
“How many times do I have to teach you: just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.”—Shuri, from Black Panther
“Every time someone steps up and says who they are, the world becomes a better, more interesting place.” —Captain Raymond Holt, from Brooklyn-99
“In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.”- from Mary Poppins
“Some people can’t believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first.” – Sean Maguire, from Good Will Hunting
“In your place, if there is pain, nurse it. And if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out. Don’t be brutal with it. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster, that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything…what a waste.”- from Call Me By Your Name
“The things that make me different are the things that make me ME.”- from Winnie the Pooh
“Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It’s the moments that take your breath away.”- from Hitch
“Don’t run. Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s gonna die. Come watch TV.”- from Rick & Morty
“If we didn’t do what we loved, we wouldn’t exist.” – Adonis, from Creed II
“Of course it’s happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?”- from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe.”- from Black Panther
“Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.”- from Pocahontas
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you’ll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.” – from Factotum
“Nobody’s perfect.” – from Some Like It Hot
“The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability.”- from Ratatouille
“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are… it is our choices.” – Dumbledore, from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” – from The Notebook
“Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.” – Heath Ledger, from 10 Things I Hate About You
“Just keep swimming” – from Finding Nemo
“Great men are not born great, they grow great.” – Mario Puzo, from The Godfather
“There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.”- from The Theory of Everything
“I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand you’re gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you…to make each day count.”- from Titanic
“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” – from Dead Poets Society
“To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” – from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
“After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.” – from Shrek
“Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good.”- from Boy Meets World
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – from Moulin Rouge
“Now, think of the happiest things. It’s the same as having wings.”- from Peter Pan
“I know what I have to do now, I’ve got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?” – from Cast Away
“You’re gonna make it after all.”- from The Mary Tyler Moore Show
“Remember those posters that said, “Today is the first day of the rest of your life”? Well, that’s true of every day but one…the day you die.” – from American Beauty
“Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it’s contained.” – President Snow, from The Hunger Games
“Every man dies, not every man really lives.” – from Braveheart
“Luck favours the prepared, darling.” —Edna Mode, from The Incredibles
“When you decide to be something, you can be it.” – Frank Costello, from The Departed
“I love you, but I love me more.”- from Sex and the City
“Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Chris Gardner, from The Pursuit of Happiness
“If you want me, earn me.”- from Scandal

Chinese Proverbs To Put Life Into A New Perspective

“A smile will gain you ten more years of life”
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”
“A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.”
“A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.”
“Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.”
“He who cheats the earth will be cheated by the earth.”
“One beam, no matter how big, cannot support an entire house on its own.”
“The more acquaintances you have, the less you know them.”
“Distant water does not put out a nearby fire.”
“He who thinks too much about every step he takes will always stay on one leg.”
“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.”
“If you want to find out about the road ahead, then ask about it from those coming back.”
“A little impatience will spoil great plans.”
“A hundred no’s are less agonizing than one insincere yes.”
“Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.”
“A needle is not sharp at both ends.”
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
“Behave toward everyone as if receiving a guest.”
“A man who cannot tolerate small misfortunes can never accomplish great things.”
“A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.”
“Talk does not cook rice.”
“Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.”
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
“If you bow at all, bow low.”
“There are two kinds of perfect people: those who are dead, and those who have not been born yet.”
“Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.”
“All things change, and we change with them.”
“A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”
“A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.”
“Vicious as a tigress can be, she never eats her own cubs.”
“To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep.”
“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.”
“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
“If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice.”
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”
“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”
“If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.”
“Man’s schemes are inferior to those made by heaven.”
“A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.”
“A book holds a house of gold.”
“A fool judges people by the presents they give him.”
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
“A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.”
“If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else.”
“Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.”

Comforting Wisdom From Literature

inspirational quote custom t-shirt for women

“A hug is always the right size.”- A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
“You do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.” -Rupi Kaur
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you.”- Noel Streatfield, Ballet Shoes
“Life is the thing you bring with you inside of your own head.”- Sally Rooney, Normal People
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“Maybe it’s better to have gotten it right and been happy for one day instead of living a lifetime of wrongs.”- Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“A grown child is a dangerous thing.”- Alice Walker, The Color Purple
“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”- Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”- Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”- Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”- Kathryn Stockett, The Help
“You are all the colours in one, at full brightness.”-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” – Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird sings
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Because it’s not a lie if it’s how you feel.”-Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect.”- Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
“‘What day is it?’, asked Winnie the Pooh.
‘It’s today,’ squeaked Piglet.
‘My favourite day,’ said Pooh.”
– A. A. Milne, The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
“When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.”- Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
“To heal you have to get to the root of the wound and kiss it all the way up”-Rupi Kaur
“To choose to love is to take a risk”- Dolly Alderton, Everything I know About Love
“I think I can live without you, but it won’t be any kind of life.”- Rainbow Rowell, Landline
“You are your best thing.”- Toni Morrison, Beloved
“Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.”- Dolly Alderton, Everything I know About Love
“Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.” – Alexandre Dumas, The Lady of the Camellias
“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” – Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”- Zadie Smith, White Teeth
“Nobody’s lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It’s something you make happen – because you love each other.”- Rainbow Rowell, Landline
“You live through certain things before you understand them. You can’t always take the analytical position.”- Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”- Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”- Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“I love you more than I hate everything else.”- Rainbow Rowell, Landline
“‘Are you ready?’ Klaus asked finally. ‘No,’ Sunny answered. ‘Me neither,’ Violet said, ‘but if we wait until we’re ready we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let’s go.’”- Daniel Handler, The Ersatz Elevator
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”-John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’”- E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
“At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”- My Antonia, Willa Cather

Comical Quotes That You Can’t Help But Agree With

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Eddison
“Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.” Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama
“Some people are like clouds: when they disappear, it’s a beautiful day.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” Unknown
“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” Joe Girard
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”- Douglas Adams
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” Marilyn Monroe
“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” Benjamin Franklin
“Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick
“When life puts you in a tough situation, don’t say ‘Why me?’, say ‘Try me’.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
“I am an early bird and a night owl… so I am wise and I have worms” Michael Scott
“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”- John Green
“You can fail at what you don’t want—so you might as well take a chance at doing what you love.” —Jim Carrey.
“Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.” – Billie Burke
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles Schulz
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” – Steve Martin
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realise I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
“Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.”- Ann Bradford
“If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.”- Elvis Presley
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“Whoever established the high road and how high it should be should be fired.” – Sandra Bullock
“Be happy – it drives people crazy.” – Unknown
“Bad decisions make good stories.” – Ellis Vidler
“Instant gratification takes too long.” – Carrie Fisher
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”- Elbert Hubbard
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”- Albert Einstein
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”- Margaret Mead
“The lion shall lie down with the calf, but the calf won’t get much sleep.”- Woody Allen
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”- Stephen Hawking
“Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.”- Woody Allen
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” – A.A. Milne
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” – Erica Jong
“The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.” – Will Rogers
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there”- George Harrison
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost
“Aspire to inspire before we expire.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
“Laugh it off. There’s always another night.” – Steve Carell
“Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.” – Robert Bloch
“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”- Terry Pratchett
“It’s okay to look at the past and the future. Just don’t stare.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”- Albert Einstein
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”- Charles Bukowski
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”- Oscar Wilde
“My father always said, ‘Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their bookshelf.’” – Emilia Clarke
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway.”- Robert Downey Jr
“I admit that I live in the past, but only because housing is so much cheaper.” – Matt Wohlfarth
“Live each day like it’s your second to the last. That way you can fall asleep at night.”- Jason Love
“Sometimes you lie in bed at night and you don’t have a single thing to worry about. That always worries me!” – Charlie Brown
“My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.” – Olivia Wilde
“Kill them with success and bury them with a smile.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
“Think like a proton. Always positive.” – Unknown
“If you are not yelling at your kids, you are not spending enough time with them.” – Reese Witherspoon

Why Not Wear Your Inspirational Quote

If you come across a quote that really speaks to you then why not wear it? We can bring your creation to life. Everything is printed on demand in order to reduce waste, with an all-over print, giving you ultimate creative freedom. You can upload your very own design on a wide range of custom men’s or women’s t-shirts, and even add your own label. Everything is custom made to order with high quality materials, ensuring your final product is exactly as you envisioned.

So why not create your own design, either to wear on your down days, to distribute the inspiration to your loved ones, or to sell your creative masterpiece here on Contrado. Inspirational quotes are the ideal way to spread that positivity with the world, so bring them to life on your very own custom T-shirt.