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50 Inspirational Quotes to Boost your mood




Life is like playing spin the wheel, you don't know what you get next but you play your best shot, try to stop, and start it at the correct time. Though, luck might not be in our favor always. That's the point we seek external inspiration through quotes and other sources.


Here are my 50 favorite Inspirational Quotes to boost your energy when luck decides to take the back seat.


Here we go!

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

  2. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

  3. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein

  4. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”– Babe Ruth

  5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” – Steve Jobs

  6. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

  7. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”– Henry Ford

  8. “Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett

  9. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”– Soren Kierkegaard

  10. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

  11. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

  12. “Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” — Hillary Clinton

  13. “Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John

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

  15. “My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump

  16. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller

  17. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ― Robert Frost

  18. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Winston Churchill

  19. “Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.”— Nicole Kidman

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

  21. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”— Malala Yousafzai

  22. “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.”— Oprah Winfrey

  23. “Spread love everywhere you go.”— Mother Teresa

  24. “Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.”— Lady Gaga

  25. You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens.”— Mandy Hale

  26. “You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are.”— Kesha

  27. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

  28. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”— Robin Williams

  29. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”— Aristotle

  30. “Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.”— Marie Forleo

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

  32. “Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment.”— Marianne Cantwell

  33. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”— Ella Fitzgerald

  34. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”— Mahatma Gandhi

  35. “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.”— Earl Nightingale

  36. If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”— Roald Dahl

  37. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”— Maya Angelou

  38. “Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come.”— Ellen DeGeneres

  39. Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied.”— Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

  40. “Nobody built like you, you design yourself.”— Jay-Z

  41. “Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”— Henry David Thoreau

  42. “Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.”— Beyoncé

  43. “Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”—William Ellery Channing

  44. “When it comes to luck, you make your own.”— Bruce Springsteen

  45. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one!”— Dolly Parton

  46. “Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you’ll reach your goal. And if that takes a few years, then that’s great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that’s part of the process.”— Naomi Osaka

  47. “We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can’t put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?”— Jennifer Lopez

  48. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”– Zig Ziglar

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

  50. “You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender.”— Mariah Carey


Tell me in the comments below what you do when you are looking for an external mood booster?


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