Quotes to Inspire Your Best
Let’s face it. Everyone needs a little inspiration at some point in their day, week, month, year, career, etc. This article is a collection of quotes, sayings and wisdom from successful people that will inspire you to do more and to do better.
If you lead a team, your mindset is critical. Your direct reports and your organization are watching you. What you do and the way you do it is far more important than the words you say.
Take a moment and refresh your mindset. Select a quote from the list below and use it to help set your intention for the day or for the remainder of the week.
Enjoy these inspirational quotes for leaders.
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
Aeschylus
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Deepak Chopra
Make the most of yourself–for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us – and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.
Roy T. Bennett
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
Warren Bennis
All growth depends on activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
President Calvin Coolidge
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; its holy ground. There is no greater investment.
Stephen Covey
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Max De Pree
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
Kick your own ass first.
Jeffrey Gitomer
Good, better, best. Never let it rest ’til your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome
Those who spend their time looking for the faults in others usually make no time to correct their own.
Art Jonak
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.
Robert Kiyosaki
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
Peter McWilliams
The best competition I have is against myself to become better.
John Wooden
You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here.
Charlie Munger
If you don’t like the road you’re walking on, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton
It always seems impossible until it is done.
Nelson Mandela
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
Things don’t get better until you get better.
Jim Rohn
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
Diana Ross
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail, than to attempt nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer
Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Ziglar
It’s always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil
Which quote was most useful to you? How can you use the feeling it inspired to move forward today?
If you have ideas for additional types of quotes you would like to see, leave a comment and we’ll work on it!
If you want to see more quotes for great leaders, click here to check out these quotes from an amazing entrepreneur and industrialist, Henry Ford.
Make it a great day!
