25 Inspirational Quotes for When You Need A Little Boost
No matter what we’re going through, we could all use a little encouragement. Here are some quotes that will inspire, encourage, or challenge you. Take what you need:
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
-Aristotle
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
- Mae Jemison
“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put some sunglasses on.”
“I’m going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn’t promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It’s the only thing I can help. If I didn’t have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?”
“I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this.”
“Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.”
Ava DuVernay
“Bring your whole self to the experience. Because the more we do that, the more that people get to see that, the more comfortable everybody’s gonna be with it.”
“Once I learned to like me more than others did, then I didn’t have to worry about being the funniest or the most popular or the prettiest. I was the best me and I only ever tried to be that.”
“When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear.”
“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
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“Creativity doesn’t wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
- James Baldwin
“Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell.”
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear”
“When we let fear be our master, we cannot be happy and free as a butterfly. But when we choose to trust the journey and embrace love and joy, we are free to fly.”
“I don’t harp on the negative because if you do, then there’s no progression. There’s no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.”
