365 Inspirational Daily Quotes to Help You Regroup, Refresh, and Refocus

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REGROUP

Feeling a bit frazzled, overwhelmed, or
just need to stay grounded? Recharge here.

• “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot [Tweet ]

• “You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” ―Maxwell Maltz

• “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein, he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated; thus, everyone’s task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.” —Viktor E. Frankl

• “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “Every artist was first an amateur.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson [Tweet ]

• “When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls. Penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.” ―Marcus Aurelius

• “The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others, hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and, from motives of policy, are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” ―Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• “Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.” —Norman Vincent Peale [Tweet ]

• “The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.” ―John C. Maxwell

• “Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.” ―Og Mandino [Tweet ]

• “They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?” ―Jonathan Cainer

• “People do not wish to appear foolish. To avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain, actually, fools.” ―Alice Walker

• “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.” —Abraham Maslow

• “An excuse is the most expensive brand of self defeat you will ever purchase.” ―Johnnie Dent Jr. [Tweet ]

• “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker [Tweet]

• “If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?” —Douglas Noel Adams [Tweet ]

• “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “Empty your cup so that it may be filled. Become devoid to gain totality.” —Bruce Lee [Tweet]

• “You cannot solve a problem from the same level of thinking that created it.” —Albert Einstein [Tweet ]

• “Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.” —Richard Bach [Tweet]

• “If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.” —Barbara Cook [Tweet]

• “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” —David M. Burns

• “What happened in the past doesn’t matter. You’re creating a new future TODAY.” —H.T. [Tweet]

• “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh—at yourself.” —Ethel Barrymore [Tweet]

• “Recognize the issue, admit there is an issue – and then do something about the issue.” ―Latorria Pier

• “The tricky part about discovering our giftedness is that it may be in an area that feels unexpected.” ―Meg Meeker [Tweet]

• “So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.” —Caterina Fake

• “Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.” —Steven Pressfield [Tweet]

• “It is not the opinion of the common (wo)man that matters, but the opinion of (wo)men whom you admire and truly respect.” ―Bohdi Sanders

• “Think for yourself at all times.” ―Bohdi Sanders

• “The real truth lies below the surface.” ―Bohdi Sanders

• “You must live in the present: Launch yourself on every wave. Find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.” ―Henry David Thoreau

• “Not ’til we are completely lost or turned around… do we begin to find ourselves.” ―Henry David Thoreau [Tweet]

• “Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” ―Henry David Thoreau

• “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass [Tweet]

• “Dress loose; take a great deal of exercise; be particular about your diet, and sleep sound enough; the body has a great effect on the mind.” ―Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• “To believe in something and not to live it is dishonest.” ―Mahatma Gandhi [Tweet]

• “Be like the sun for grace and mercy.
  Be like the night to cover others’ faults.
  Be like running water for generosity.
  Be like death for rage and anger.
  Be like the earth for modesty.
  Appear as you are.
  Be as you appear.” ―Rumi

• “To be successful, you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” —Mike Gafka [Tweet]

• “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” ―Henry David Thoreau

• “You can make mistakes. But you are not a failure until you blame others for those mistakes.” —John Wooden [Tweet]

• “You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what ‘might’ happen.” ―Michelle Obama [Tweet]

• “First, have a definite, clear practical ideal: a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends: wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.” —Aristotle

• “Take responsibility for yourself, because no one’s going to take responsibility for you. I’m not a victim, I grow from this and I learn.” —Tyra Banks

• The secret to defeating overwhelm and freeing more time? 1) Automate whenever possible. 2) Delegate duties outside your expertise. —H.T. [Tweet]

RENEW

Conquer discontentment, restlessness,
and refresh your healthy perspective.

• “Be yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” ―Henry David Thoreau

• “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life I am going to be with me, and I don’t want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It’s high time that I accept all the great things about me.” ―C. JoyBell C.

• “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me.’” —Erma Bombeck

• “If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” ―Anna Quindlen

• “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get, you’ve got to make yourself.” —Alice Walker [Tweet]

• “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

SUCCEED

Bask in the empowering beliefs, mantras,
and mottoes of the truly successful.

• “In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.” ―Booker T. Washington

• “When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others.” ―Robert Greene

• Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. —Washington Irving [Tweet]

• “The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” —Napoleon Hill [Tweet]

• “Don’t settle for average; bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.” —Angela Bassett

• “My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.” ―Steve Maraboli [Tweet]

• “Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.” ―Natalie Goldberg [Tweet]

• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.” —Marianne Williamson

• “…If there is no risk, there is no reward.” ―Christy Raedeke [Tweet]

• “Rich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus on obstacles.” —T. Harv Eker [Tweet]

• “If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.” ―Genereux Philip [Tweet]

• “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” —Diane Ackerman

• “Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.” ―Frederick Douglass [Tweet]

• “Not ’til we are lost, in other words not ’til we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.” ―Henry David Thoreau

• “If you follow the present-day world, you will turn your back on the Way; if you would not turn your back on the Way, do not follow the world.” ―Takuan Soho

• “Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.” ―Richard Bach [Tweet]

• “Conduct yourself in a manner that is worthy of respect and don’t worry about what others think.” ―Bohdi Sanders [Tweet]

• “Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.” ―Emma Donoghue [Tweet]

• “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson [Tweet]

• “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ―William Faulkner [Tweet]

• “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” ―Stephen Richards [Tweet]

• “A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.” —Jonathan Swift [Tweet]

• “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure, instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” —Tony Robbins

• “I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.” —Charles Dickens

• “Stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back—even if they’re your parents. Because if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do – if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary – you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you’ll probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be.” ―Kelly Cutrone

• “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” ―Leonardo da Vinci

• “It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do.” ―Carter G. Woodson

• “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics, and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived… THIS is to have succeeded.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “The (wo)man of principle never forgets what (s)he is, because of what others are.” ―Bohdi Sanders [Tweet]

• “There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different, and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.” —Mark Caine

• “Be yourself – no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “Put it down in capital letters:
  ‘SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE.’
  The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self-development is self-sacrifice.”
  ―Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• “Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be – and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.” —Steven Pressfield

• “The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by other people’s rules while quietly playing by your own.” —Michael Korda

• “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” —Tony Robbins

• “Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.” —Michelle Obama [Tweet]

• “Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion.” ―Veda Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita [Tweet]

• “Success is not a destination, but a lifestyle.” ―Bangambiki Habyarimana [Tweet]

• “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” —James Cameron [Tweet]

• “To be successful you need friends, and to be very successful, you need enemies.” ―Sidney Sheldon [Tweet]

• “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” —Jim Rohn [Tweet]

• “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life, you will have been all of these.” ―George Washington Carver

• Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list. —Michelle Obama

ENLIGHTEN

• “Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” —Michael Jordan [Tweet]

• “If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” ―Anna Quindlen

• “Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. Weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It’s just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.” ―Alfred Hitchcock

• “Forget about being impressive and commit to being real. Because being real is impressive!” ―Jonathan Harnisch [Tweet]

• “If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes, or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.” —Tony Robbins

• “Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson [Tweet ]

• “A person will worship something; have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives—and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping, we are becoming.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” ―J.K. Rowling [Tweet ]

• “Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.” ―Booker T. Washington

• “All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy.” —Scott Alexander [Tweet ]

• “I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing, as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life. Distinguish the necessary and the real.” ―Henry David Thoreau

• “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are.” ―Bohdi Sanders [Tweet ]

• “Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that, in all your readings, have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” —Amelia Earhart [Tweet ]

• “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions, as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are, for him, answers above all.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche

• “Don’t make the mistake of underestimating your enemies.” ―Bohdi Sanders [Tweet ]

• “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” —George Bernard Shaw [Tweet ]

• “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” ―Vince Lombardi

• “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” —Norman Vincent Peale

• “Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.” —Goethe [Tweet ]

• “Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts. Good relationships feel good. They’re not painful.” —Michelle Obama

• “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.” —Gloria Steinem [Tweet]

• “Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.” ―Robert Kiyosaki

• “There are no secrets to success; don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.” ―Colin Powell

• “Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.” ―Robert Greene [Tweet ]

• “I can’t tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.” ―Ed Sheeran [Tweet ]

• “Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.” ―LeBron James [Tweet ]

• “Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.” ―Shannon L. Alder [Tweet ]

• “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that, in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt.” ―Bertrand Russell

• “Failure is a greater teacher than success.” ―Clarissa Pinkola Estés [Tweet ]

• “No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.” —Napoleon Hill

• “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination. Never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” —Mae Jemison

• “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” —Dale Carnegie [Tweet ]

• “I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.” ―Henry David Thoreau

• “Never look back unless you’re planning to go that way.” ―Henry David Thoreau [Tweet ]

• “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.” ―Dan Brown [Tweet ]

• There’s no such person as the “smartest” in a room; the problem comes in when everyone looks like you. Diversity makes us smarter. —H.T. Major [Tweet ]

• “You become what you believe.” —Oprah Winfrey [Tweet]

• “The man who fears losing has already lost.” ―George R.R. Martin [Tweet ]

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