100 Inspirational Quotes for Your Facebook Status Updates

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I do search for some inspirational quotes online to keep myself motivated. It helps me to encourage myself and think positively despite all the struggles I experience in life. Reading inspiring maxims from successful and inspiring people motivates me to keep moving no matter how down I am. Those sayings might only be composed of words, but their impact is powerful enough to change anyone’s way of life. That’s why I am fond of sharing those bits of wisdom on Facebook to spread some positive vibes that will help other people ease their struggles in life.

If you are looking for inspiring words for your Facebook’s status updates, I listed down 100 Inspirational Quotes that will surely draw “likes, awes and love” from your Facebook friends.

Inspirational Quotes About Love

1. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball

2. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” — Morrie Schwartz

3. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” — Rumi

4. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” — Lao Tzu

5. “You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts

6. “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey

7. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” — Albert Ellis

8. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

9. “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” — Erich Segal

10. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” — Anaïs Nin

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11. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.” — The Notebook

12. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

13. “To love is nothing. To be loved is something. But to love and be loved, that’s everything.” — T. Tolis

14. “There’s no substitute for a great love who says, ‘No matter what’s wrong with you, you’re welcome at this table.'” — Tom Hanks

15. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” —Mother Teresa

16. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” —Maya Angelou

17. “Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.” —Karl A. Menninger

18. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa

19. “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey

20. Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy

Inspirational Quotes About Success

21. “If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.” — Anonymous

22. “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” —Chris Grosser

23. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin

24. “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” —Ray Goforth

25. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” —Thomas J. Watson

26. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” —Philippos

27. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” —Mark Caine

28. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” —Earl Nightingale

29. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” —Mark Twain

30. “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” —Charles F. Kettering

31. “If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it–teach yourself to be impatient.” —Gurbaksh Chahal

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32. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” —Jim Rohn

33. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” —George Bernard Shaw

34. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” —Jim Ryun

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

36. ““Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” —Thomas A. Edison

37. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” —Abraham Lincoln

38. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” —John Maxwell

39. “Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there’s an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually something is going to happen.” —Dax Shepard

40. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.” —Thomas J. Watson

Inspirational Quotes About Money

41. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” —Ayn Rand

42. “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.” —Warren Buffett

43. “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” —Jim Rohn

44. “It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end.” —Billy Idol

45. “Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.” —Kahlil Gibran

46. “He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

47. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” —Norman Vincent Peale

48. “If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.” —Simone Weil

49. “Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.” —Tim Ferriss

50. “If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” —Henry Ford

51. “Money can’t buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.” —Spike Milligan

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52. “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” —Benjamin Franklin

53. “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.” —Jonathan Swift

54. “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” —Donald Trump

55. “Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” —Miguel de Cervantes

56. “Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.” —Carl Sandburg

57. “Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.” —Aristotle

58. “Don’t let money run your life, let money help you run your life better.” —John Rampton, CEO of Due.

59. “Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.” — Natasha Munson, author, inspirational speaker and CEO of Be Magic, Inc.

60. “Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” —Zig Ziglar, author, salesman, and motivational speaker.

Inspirational Quotes About Health and fitness

61. “Your body can stand up to almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince.” —Anonymous

62. “The only bad workout is the one you didn’t do.” —Anonymous

63. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” —Jim Rohn

64. “I may not be the strongest, I may not be the fastest, but I’ll be darned if I’m not trying my hardest.” — Anonymous

65. “You can’t finish what you don’t start.” —Anonymous

66. “Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.” —Dean Karnazes

67. “Exercise is like an addiction. Once you’re in it, you feel like your body needs it.” —Elsa Pataky

68. “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.” —Venus Williams

69. “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, vision.” —Anonymous

70. “All great achievements require time.” — Maya Angelou

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71. “When You feel like quitting think about why you started.” —Anonymous

72. “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” —Jerry Rice

73. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” — Anonymous

74. “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” —Thomas Jefferson

75. “You’re only one workout away from a good mood.” —Anonymous

76. “Nothing will work unless you do.” —Maya Angelou

77. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” —Mahatma Gandhi

78. “If you’re tired of starting over, stop giving up.” —Anonymous

79. “Making excuses burns zero calories per hour.” —Anonymous

80. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” —Muhammad Ali

Inspirational Quotes About Life

81. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James

82. 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

83. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

84. “Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” – Benjamin Disraeli

85. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

86. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

87. “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

88. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

89. 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

90. “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

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91. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson

92. “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” – Larry Winget

93. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

94. “An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” – Prescott

95. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey

96. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

97. I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein

98. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha

99. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”– Babe Ruth

100. “It is not enough to aim, you must hit.” – Italian Proverb

There you have it! I hope you have enjoyed reading and digesting the encouraging quotes I listed down. I also wish, those word reaches, uplift and inspires you. Whatever problem you are facing right now just keep motivated, keep your spirit fighting, and always view life on the bright side.

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Marydel Mitch Flores
Mitch is a writer and photographer. She also does screenwriting for independent film producers and joins various film competitions. Mitch believes that “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
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Ajay Darmian
Ajay Darmian
April 27, 2021 11:51 am

Really life changing,thanks for it,aim higher.

rhea dangi
rhea dangi
May 6, 2020 2:35 pm

Having read this I believed it was extremely informative. I appreciate you taking the time and effort to put this information together. I once again find myself spending way too much time both reading and commenting. But so what, it was still worth it!

shayari
shayari
March 6, 2020 1:59 pm

Thank you so much Mitch, for sharing these amazing words, all quotes are doing really inspiring and motivating us for more doing and growth. fully life changing quotes by famous persons. Thanks Again.

Positive human
Positive human
December 1, 2019 12:49 pm

Really inspiring quotes, but do you know what most I liked? Quote by, Mitch “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Your idea was really inspiring, really, after reading the whole article, the quote I like the most us yours…thank you..

Mark John
Mark John
June 11, 2019 9:30 am

This is really so, so good. Such a good reminder. Thank you!!!

Sherry
Sherry
May 21, 2019 5:09 am

Thank you Mitch for these great inspirational quotes, it lift up my spirit.

johnpaul
johnpaul
April 22, 2019 10:17 am

nice write up there ,they are well articulated

Gift
Gift
March 14, 2019 3:27 pm

So inspirational

Ugochukwu
Ugochukwu
January 28, 2019 11:07 pm

Wow i love this