Favorite Inspirational and Motivational Quotes

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Some days are made more complete with an inspirational quote to spur you along.

Inspirational quotes are a favorite among all walks of life, but entrepreneurs and particularly network marketers find a lot of motivation and encouragement in these simple little quotes.

I love these, and have many more but wanted to share some of my favorite inspirational and motivational quotes with you here – I hope you enjoy them!

“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” Jim Rohn
“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” ~Doris Mortman
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.” Frank Tibolt
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” Henry David Thoreau
“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the abilityto stick to one thing till it gets there.” Josh Billings
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” ~Norman Vincent Peale
“Failures are divided into two classes – those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.” ~John Charles Salak
“Be yourself, everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” ~Winston Churchill
“Reasonable people work for the dreamers.” — Darnell Self
“Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.” — Susan Rabin
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” ~Thomas Jefferson
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” — Elbert Hubbard
“You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” — Maxwell Maltz
“A bad day is just a day when you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. ” ~Unknown
“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” ~Eleanor Powell
“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.” — Denis Waitley
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ~Albert Einstein
“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” ~James Allen
“There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one.” ~Elmer G. Leterman
“Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.” ~Elmer G. Leterman
“To have more, you’ve got to become more.” — Earl Shoaff
“A great man is always willing to be little.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill
“Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.” — Pope Paul VI
“The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.” — Robert Collier
“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” — Horace, Roman Poet
“There is a piece of heaven in all of us. That’s why we call others ‘angels’.”
“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” — E. Joseph Cossman
“Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments.” — Rose Fitzgerald
“You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.” Zig Zigler
“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” Napoleon Hill
“Know what you want and believe that you can have it.” — Norman Vincent Peale
“Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”– R. Buckminster Fuller
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
“If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old.”- Edgar Watson Howe
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.” ~Albert Einstein
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Sir Winston Churchill
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” Robert Schuller
“Every person dies. Not every person really lives.” ~ William Wallace
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, then you will be fired with enthusiasm.” — Vince Lombardi
“What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.” ~Eleanor Powell
“Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play” – Nietzsche
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.” ~Shaw
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt”
“When you are grounded and established in all areas in your wheel of life, there are no limitations.”
“Success is never ending, failure is never final.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.” Albert Einstein
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” ~Oscar Wilde
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure” ~Napoleon Hill
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
“When you cease to dream you cease to live” Malcolm Forbes
“One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.” ~ Dennis Peer
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” Sandra Carey
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. ~ Albert Einstein
“”Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you are right!” ~ Henry Ford
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn”. Laurence Peter
“Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” ~ Margaret Shepherd
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt and… from my Twitter friend @FredCuellar, “The Present belongs to those who saw the Beauty of their Dreams & Did something about it!”
“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. ” C. S. Lewis
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.” Judy Garland
“Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.” — Zig Ziglar
“You cannot do a kindness to soon, for you never know how soon it will be to late.” Ralph waldo Emerson
“If there is no wind, row.” Latin Proverb.
“Without dreams, there is no reality!” Luis B. Couto
“A leader is not measured by how many followers they have, but how many followers they have inspired to lead.”
“Conceit is a weird disease. It makes everybody sick except the one who’s got it. Zig Ziglar
“If you can’t see the bright side of life, polish the dull side. “
“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, and leave the rest to God.”
” If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, You will ignore what is” ~unknown
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” ~ Seth Godin
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” ~ Dale Carnegie
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Frank Outlaw
“Believe while others are doubting; Plan while others are playing; Study while others are sleeping; Decide while others are delaying; Prepare while others are daydreaming; Begin while others are procrastinating; Work while others are wishing; Save while others are wasting; Listen while others are talking; Smile while others are frowning; Commend while others are criticizing; Persist while others are quitting.” William Arthur Ward