50 Inspirational Quotes To Help You Be Your Best Self

Many times we go through life with our head down, doing what we must in order to get by. Being our "best self" is a term we know we should strive for, but it is easy to get sidetracked or not know where to begin.

The phrases in this blog post have been carefully chosen to inspire a positive change within yourself. They have been written to remind you that you have everything within yourself to be your best self.

Each one of these 50 quotes holds a different kind of magic that will help you stay focused and positive even through the rough days.

1. "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." - Og Mandino

2. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

3. "Believe you can, and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

4.  "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

5. "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." - Sam Levenson

6. "To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." - Mark Twain

7. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

8. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

9. "Each morning we are born again. What we do today matters most." - Buddha

10. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein

11.  "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

12.  "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela

13.  "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

14.  "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe

15.  "It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

16.  "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller

17.  "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou

18.  "Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities." - Robert H. Schuller

19.  "The biggest failure you can have in life is making the mistake of never trying at all." - Unknown

20.  "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher

21.  "You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." - Brian Tracy

22.  "The key to success is to start before you are ready." - Marie Forleo

23.  "You never fail until you stop trying." - Albert Einstein

24.  "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.  "Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this." - Chantal Sutherland

26.  "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs

27.  "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

28.  "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama

29.  "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar

30.  "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

31.  "Don't let yesterday take up too much of today." - Will Rogers

32.  "A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

33.  "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain

34.  "Discipline yourself, and others won't need to." - John Wooden

35.  "Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again." - Tim McGraw

36.  "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." - Albert Schweitzer

37.  "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

38.  "Happiness is not a goal; it's a by-product." - Eleanor Roosevelt

39.  "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley

40.  "Success isn't just about what you accomplish in your life; it's about what you inspire others to do." - Unknown

41.  "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Lao Tzu

42.  "The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something." - Seth Godin

43.  "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington

44.  "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden

45.  "The only way to change the world is to make a little noise." - Malala Yousafzai

46.  "Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it." - Lindsey Vonn

47.  "The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing." - Walt Disney

48.  "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

49.  "Opportunities don't happen. You create them." - Chris Grosser

50.  "Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail." - Charles Kettering

Conclusion:

Being your best self does not come naturally to everyone, but the good news is that it can be learned with a little inspiration and some hard work. Self-improvement can take many forms, but ultimately, it's about looking inward and doing our best to become the best version of ourselves.

These 50 quotes are a reminder that we have it within us to make something special, to achieve greatness and happiness, and ultimately, to make the world a little bit better for us and those around us. It is never too late to start pursuing our dreams, goals, and aspirations – all we need is the willingness to try and the drive to make it happen.