101+ Self Help Quotes
to Motivate and Inspire
all people.

Inspiring and Motivational self help quotes:
1. “Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from
the achievement of one’s values.”
- Ayn Rand
2. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
to improve the world.”
- Anne Frank
3. “If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.”
- Walt Disney
4. “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
- Jeremy Kitson
5. “Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left
a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to
travel the road yourself.”
- Stephin Levine
6. “If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you
have that money can’t buy.”
- Anonymous
7. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
- Walt Disney
8. “Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be
extraordinary.”
- Mother Teresa
9. “Follow your bliss.”
- Joseph Campbell
10. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small
matters to what lies within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and
shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their
true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
12. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to
add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ”
- Antoine de St. Exupery
13. “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
- Colette
14. “And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk
even more.”
- Erica Jong
15. “I’m not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be around
when it happens.”
- Woody Allen”
16. “A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan
and a deadline.”
- Harvey Mackay
17. “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 the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
18. “Fun is about as good a habit as there is.”
- Jimmy Buffet
19. “Imagine.”
- John Lennon
20. “Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I
believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it.
But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it
even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”
- Mohandas Gandhi
21. “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has
been the reward for what he gave.”
- Calvin Coolidge
22. “Worry is like a rocking chair – it gives you something to
do, but it doesn’t get you anywhere.”
- Dorothy Galyean
23. “We would worry less about what others think of us if we
realized how seldom they do.”
- Ethel Barrett
24. “The time is always right to do what is right.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
25. “Success breeds success. Attend to your mind’s most joyful,
effective discovery process. Bolster the self-beliefs that add
confidence, lucidity, and tenacity to your efforts. You’ll get
more out of what you notice, so heed whatever gives you wisdom.”
- Marsha Sinetar
26. “I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
- Jonathan Winters
27. “Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to
keep you there.”
- John Wooden
28. “As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson
29. “Inspiration grows into full-scale creation through
persistence and imagination.”
- Carol Lloyd
30. “Life’s up and downs provide windows of opportunity to
determine… [your] values and goals…Think of using all
obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.”
- Marsha Sinetar
31. “Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
- Carl Sandburg
32. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment
that something else is more important than fear.”
- Ambrose Redmoon
33. “If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.”
- Judith Martin
34. “If your mind isn’t open, keep your mouth shut too.”
- Sue Grafton
35. “Dance like no one’s watching, love like you’ll never be hurt,
sing like no one’s listening, live like it’s heaven on earth.”
- William Pukey
36. “If you are clear about what you want, the world responds
with clarity.”
- Loretta Staples
37. “If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions.
Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often
disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just
take charge and create the experience you are looking for?”
- Eric Allenbaugh
38. “It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work.
Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is
helpful, but work and desire are invincible.”
- Thomas Robert Gaines
39. “Nothing happens until somebody sells something.”
- Mary Kay Ash
40. “Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause
is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.”
- Carol Channing
41. “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; begin
it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. “Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it
will never begin.”
- Grace Hansen
43. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only
through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be
strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
- Helen Keller
44. “Work and play are the same. When you’re following your
energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction
between work and play dissolves.”
- Shakti Gawain
45. “Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask,
but when we are challenged to be what we can be.”
- Morris Adler
46. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
47. “I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90%
how I react to it. And so it is with you…we are in charge of
our Attitudes.”
- Charles Swindoll
48. “The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
- Muhammad Ali
49. “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
50. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there
is no path and leave a trail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every
wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their
island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no
other land, there is no other life but this.”
- Henry David Thoreau
52. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up
with the rain.”
- Dolly Parton
53. “Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is
about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can
unleash.”
- Harriet Rubin
54. “One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse
to soar.”
- Helen Keller
55. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t Handle.
I just wish that he didn’t trust me so much.”
- Mother Teresa
56. “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be
something, but (instead) someone.”
- Coco Chanel
57. “When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would
not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t
be a door for anyone else.”
- Joseph Campbell
58. “Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is
the key to unlocking our potential.”
- Winston Churchill
59. “The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is
difficult.”
- Mme. Du Deffand
60. “Life without risks is not worth living.”
- Charles A. Lindbergh
61. “Each of us was born with wings…(and) has the ability to
go farther than we ever thought possible, to do things beyond our
wildest imaginings.”
- Barbara Stanny
62. “Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A
terrible thing: no one to blame.”
- Erica Jong
63. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the
stars.”
- Les Brown
64. “When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a
microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative
and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the
hell, leap.”
- Cynthia Heimel
65. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard.
Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with
no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do
what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”
- Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey
66. “Build for yourself a strongbox, fashion each part with care.
When it’s strong as your hand can make it, put all your troubles
there. Hide there all thought of your failures, and each bitter
cup that you quaff. Lock all your heartaches within it, then sit
on the lid and laugh.”
- Bertha Adams Backus
67. “It only takes one person to change your life – you.”
- Ruth Casey
68. “To follow, without halt, one aim: That’s the secret of
success.”
- Anna Pavlova
69. “A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot.
It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become
porcelain.”
- Mildred Wite Stouven
70. “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and
reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.”
- Belva Davis
71. “Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.”
- Earl Nightingale
72. “Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”
- Gloria Steinem
73. “It doesn’t happen all at once. You become. It takes a
long time.”
- Margery Williams
74. “Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason, turn one’s back on life.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
75. “One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one
knows the necessary ingredients of happiness – simple tastes,
a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of
work, and above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague
dream, of that I now feel certain.”
- George Sand
76. “People facing death don’t think about what degrees they have
earned, what positions they have held, or how much wealth they
have accumulated. At the end, what really matters is whom you love
and who loved you.”
- Bernadine Healy, MD
77. “Dying is a wild night and a new road.”
- Emily Dickinson
78. “Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called
knowing.”
- Carolyn Myss
79. “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and
know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no
mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us
to learn from.”
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
80. “All the darkness in the world can not put out the light
of a single candle.”
- Unknown
81. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
82. “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness
has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
- Goethe
83. “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one
advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet
with a success unexpected in common hours.”
- Henry David Thoreau
84. “If you can’t be a good example then you’ll just have to be
a terrible warning.”
- Catherine Aird
85. “A woman is like a tea bag–you can’t tell how strong she is
until she’s in hot water.”
- Nancy Reagan
86. “I think there is something more important than believing:
Action! The world is full of dreamers. There aren’t enough who
will move ahead and take concrete steps to actualize their vision.”
– W. Clement Stone
87. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against
you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute
longer, never give up then, for it is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
88. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing on
one’s own sunshine.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
89. “You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let
someone else make yours.”
- Gen. Colin Powell
90. “Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you
intend to do.”
- Liz Smith

91. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
- Margaret Thatcher
92. “God gives talent, work transforms talent into genius.”
- Anna Pavlova
93. “You learn in life that the only person you can really correct
and change is yourself.”
- Katharine Hepburn
94. “In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give
up, that makes us rich.”
- Henry Ward Beecher
95. “Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other.
Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
- Katharine Hepburn
96. “Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.”
- Lauren Bacall
97. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face… You must do
the thing which you think you cannot do.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
98. “I want to do it because I want to do it.”
- Amelia Earhart
99. “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.”
- Elinor Smith
100. “It doesn’t matter what you are thinking or what fear you
have, if you just do it. Action is the only thing that matters..
I can see that at the end of my life, I’m going to look back and
say, ‘Gosh, I wish I had taken more action’.”
- Diana von Welanetz Wentworth
101. “Life is no longer a mystery. I have found me.”
- Anne Axam
AND SOME MORE FOR YOU!
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the
achievement of one’s values.” – Ayn Rand
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to
improve the world.” – Anne Frank
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been
the reward for what he gave.” – Calvin Coolidge
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a
faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the
servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein
“What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts and
doubt their beliefs.. Why don’t we just decide to have no doubts,
and believe our beliefs! Fear and worry is just the misuse-use of
the creative powers we originally got to dream.” – Jannie Putter
“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there
are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting
to be born.” – Dale E. Turner
“I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new
possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an
entirely new direction. The trick, I’ve learned, is to be awake
to the moment.” – Doug Hall
“If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to
go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.”
- Norman Vincent Peale
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.” – Carl Sandburg
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who
dared believe that something inside them was superior to
circumstance.” – Bruce Barton
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out
how far one can go.” – T. S. Eliot
“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things
that never were and ask why not.” – George Bernard Shaw
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of
my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am
afraid.” – Audre Lorde
“Work and play are the same. When you’re following your energy
and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between
work and play dissolves.” – Shakti Gawain
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali
“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
“Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about
what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.”
- Harriet Rubin
“One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to
soar.” – Helen Keller
“I know God will not give me anything I can’t Handle. I just
wish that he didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something,
but (instead) someone.” – Coco Chanel
“Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.”
- Lauren Bacall
“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right. Decide on what
you think is right, and stick to it.” – George Eliot
“Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path.
So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived,
as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice.”
- Ellen Glasgow
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I
learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
- Helen Keller
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces
toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of
fate is strength undefeatable.” – Helen Keller
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks, as if they were great and noble.”
- Helen Keller
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face… You must do the
thing which you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible
thing: no one to blame.” – Erica Jong
“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is
goals that do not inspire them.” – Anthony Robbins
“Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing
what you want is the first step toward getting it.” – Mae West
“I want to do it because I want to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You
can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.” – Joan Baez
“If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when
trouble arrives, you can only win.” – Shelley Long
“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint
the canvas of our lives.” – Louise Hay
“All the darkness in the universe cannot put out the light of a
single candle.” – Unknown
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space
is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our
growth and our freedom.” – Stephen Covey
“The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have
something to live for.” – Dostoyevsky
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your
own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”
- Carl Jung
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Being true to anyone else or anything else is . . . impossible.”
- Richard Bach
“I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever
after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through
me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”
- Emily Bronte
“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you
give.” – Winston Churchill
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share
your riches but to reveal to him his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli,
British Prime Minister
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we
stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
- Olive Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because
they are easy; you don’t make them because they are cheap; you
don’t make them because they are popular; you make them because
they’re right.” – Theodore Hesburgh, former president of
Notre Dame
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is like a broken
wing’d bird that can not fly.” – Langston Hughes
“To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth
could anything be more fun.” – Katherine Graham
“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept
the fact that I can do something else.” – Dolly Parton
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as
what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
“The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE me what I am,
they REVEAL who I am. ” – Dr. Laura Schlessinger
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news
is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can
love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
- Anne Frank
“If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you
never take chances.” – Julia Soul
“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial
in the shade?” – Ben Franklin
“If you can DREAM it, you can DO it.” – Walt Disney
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the
right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by
pressing the limits do you ever find them.” – Dr Joyce Brothers
“Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.”
- Wayne Oates
“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 the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain
“We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love
and joy. Let us make this the human experience.” – Gary Zukav
“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think
not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with
what it is still possible for you to do.” – Pope John XXIII
“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
- Jonathan Winters
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished.
That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour

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