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It's been more than 15 years since the last Harry Potter book hit shelves, yet we're still enthralled with its magical world. That's because the exciting tale is filled with epic bravery and heroics, lovable (and hatable!) characters, and memorable Harry Potter quotes we'll never forget.
Quotes from Harry Potter have stood the test of time as some of our all-time favorite quotes from books, and the books themselves definitely make our list of the best children's books. And the best part? Lots of them are equally great quotes on their own!
So, keep reading for some of the best Harry Potter quotes. They'll make you want to read the books or watch the movies again and again!
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1. "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." –Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2. "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Dumbledore, getting deep right from the get-go with his cautionary advice when Harry is looking at his family in the Mirror of Erised.
3. "As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all—the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Dumbledore's not shy with his thoughts about the allure of the Sorcerer's Stone and its power.
4. "Dobby has heard of your greatness, sir, but of your goodness, Dobby never knew." —Dobby, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Dobby might seem like a "simple" character, but he delivers this profound thinker in the first scene we meet him!
5. "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain!" —Arthur Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. For a world basically devoid of technology, the wizarding world still provides this solid cautionary message! Of course, Arthur is talking about the diary containing the consciousness of Lord Voldemort that Ginny fell victim to.
6. "I am what I am, an' I'm not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.'" —Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
7. "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." —Sirius Black to Ron, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
8. What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does." —Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. More words of wisdom from Hagrid! Harry takes these words to heart, and they're reiterated as the final line of the book.
9. "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
10. "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Dumbledore delivers some doozies in his final speech in Harry's fourth year.
11. "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" —Barty Crouch, Jr., Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Nope, the real Mad-Eye Moody never actually says this! But when the evil Barty Crouch, Jr. Is posing as the Auror, he's actually a pretty decent teacher and delivers this motivational quote.
12. "We must unite inside [Hogwarts] / Or we'll crumble from within / I have told you, I have warned you… / Let the Sorting now begin." —The Sorting Hat, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In its first song after the return of Voldemort, the Sorting Hat expresses conflict over its job of "dividing" the students during these troublesome times when unity is so important. All in rhyme!
13. "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
14. "Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." —Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Ginny's brothers Fred and George inspired her to think this!
15. "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth." —Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
16. "Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!" —Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
17. "I don't think you're a waste of space." —Dudley Dursley, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It may not quite be an epic redemption arc, but it was nice to finally see Dudley Dursley emerge a little from his parents' shadow and express his appreciation for Harry.
18. "Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." — Kingsley Shacklebolt, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
19. "And what if we want to stay and fight?" —Ernie Macmillan, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. We included this one specifically because of the glow up of this character! Early in the books, Ernie Macmillan is a rather pompous student who even outright believes Harry is the Heir of Slytherin in Chamber of Secrets. But fast-forward to the Battle of Hogwarts, and Ernie is the first to raise the call to fight!
20. "It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well." —Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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21. "To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
22. HARRY: "I didn't want anyone to talk to me."GINNY: "Well, that was a bit stupid of you, seeing as you don't know anyone but me who's been possessed by You-Know-Who, and I can tell you how it feels." —Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
23. "It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love." —Horace Slughorn, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Professor Slughorn shows off a love potion on the students' first day of class—reminding them that there's a caveat.
24. "When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love." —Horace Slughorn, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
25. LORD VOLDEMORT: "Nothing I have seen in the world has supported your pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore."ALBUS DUMBLEDORE: "Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places." —Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
26. REMUS LUPIN: "Tonks deserves somebody young and whole."ARTHUR WEASLEY: "But she wants you." —Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Tonks and Lupin might not be one of the best-known Harry Potter couples, but Lupin believing he's not worthy of love and Tonks proving him otherwise gets us every time!
27. "What do I care how he looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!" —Fleur Delacour, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Fleur's fiancé, Bill Weasley, has just been attacked and scarred by Greyback the werewolf. Mrs. Weasley even suggests that Fleur might not marry him anymore, but Fleur won't hear it. Her haughty declaration that she's "good-looking enough for the both of" them is very on-brand.
28. "I never really gave up on you. Not really. I always hoped…" —Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Ginny for the win! She was crushing on Harry as early as her first year at Hogwarts. Four years later, they were falling in love! (They did break up before he went to save the world, and then got back together again.)
29. "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. And above all, pity those who live without love." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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30. "I'll be in my bedroom, making no noise and pretending I'm not there." —Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
31. "Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have." ―Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
32. "We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat." —George Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. When Harry first meets the Weasleys at the train platform, the twins are trying to appease Ginny, who is sad she can't go to Hogwarts yet. The best part? Dumbledore tells Harry that Fred and George tried to send him a toilet seat after he's hospitalized at the end of the year fighting Quirrell.
33. "You haven't got a letter on your [sweater]. I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid — we know we're called Gred and Forge." —George Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. At Christmastime, the twins' are the only ones of Mrs. Weasley's handmade sweaters with initials on them, and George can't help but make this joke.
34. "Alas! Ear wax!" —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Of all the Dumbledore quotes, this one might demonstrate the old wizard's irreverent, young-at-heart attitude the best. Visiting Harry in the hospital wing, he tries a Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean, banking on it being "a nice toffee." The rest is history.
35. MOLLY WEASLEY: "Your sons flew that car to Harry's house and back last night! What have you got to say about that, eh?"ARTHUR WEASLEY: "Did you really? Did it go all right?" —Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
36. "Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back." —Ron Weasley after flying the Weasley car into the Whomping Willow, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
37. "Amazing! Amazing! This is just like magic!" —Gilderoy Lockhart, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The hapless fraud Lockhart has just erased his own memories when his spell backfired. Fawkes the phoenix is carrying him, Harry, Ron and Ginny out of the Chamber of Secrets and he is just delighted.
38. RITA SKEETER: "Congratulations, Harry! I wonder if you could give me a quick word? How you felt facing that dragon? How you feel now, about the fairness of the scoring?"HARRY: "Yeah, you can have a word. Good-bye." —Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Unfortunately, this sick burn does little to keep wizarding tabloid journalist Rita Skeeter at bay.
39. GEORGE: "Hello, Harry. We thought we heard your dulcet tones."FRED: "You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out. There might be a couple of people 50 miles away who didn't hear you." —Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Oh, angsty Book 5 Harry. Fred and George take the edge off a scene where he's getting all his anger out about being stuck at the Dursleys and knowing nothing about what's going on in the wizarding world post–Voldemort's return.
40. "You're just as sane as I am." —Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
41. HERMIONE: "Harry, don't go picking a row with Malfoy, don't forget, he's a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you."HARRY: "Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?" —Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It's Year 5, Voldemort is back, and Malfoy the school bully is the least of Harry's concerns.
42. "[Harry] has achieved high marks in every Defense Against the Darks Arts test set by a competent teacher." —Professor McGonagall to Professor Umbridge, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In both the books and the films, we live for McGonagall resisting Umbridge's reign of terror (and terrible teaching)!
43. "Give five signs that identify the werewolf. Excellent question…One: he's sitting on my chair. Two: he's wearing my clothes. Three: his name's Remus Lupin." —Remus Lupin, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. We think of Lupin as a wise, profound mentor figure, but he's delightfully hilarious in this memory of him as a teen remarking on a certain question on his O.W.L. Exam.
44. SNAPE: "Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"HARRY: "Yes."SNAPE: "Yes, sir."HARRY: "There's no need to call me 'sir,' Professor." —Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
45. HARRY: "What does [the Unbreakable Vow] mean?RON: "Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow…"HARRY: "I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily enough." —Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Even in Book 6, Harry still has a lot to learn about the magical world since he didn't grow up in it. But he does still understand…logic!
46. "He can move faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo." —Fred Weasley on Voldemort's powers of flight, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Leave it to Fred to sneak in two digs about two different bad guys in the same sentence.
47. "We teachers are rather good at magic, you know." —Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
48. "We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the one / And Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!" —Peeves the poltergeist, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Ron sums up Peeves' post–Voldemort defeat victory song the best: "Really gives a feeling for the scope and tragedy of the thing, doesn't it?"
49. "Don't let it worry you. It's me. I'm extremely famous." —Ron, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In the epilogue, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny are sending their children off to Hogwarts, and Harry's son Albus wonders why everyone is staring at them. Ron lightens the nervous new students' mood with this quip.
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50. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery…" —Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The massively book-smart Hermione reveals the extent of her admiration for Harry's defining qualities right before Harry goes off alone to face his foe in Sorcerer's Stone. Though, of course, Hermione, you have a super healthy dose of those qualities, too—give yourself some credit!
51. "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Who could forget the moment of victory when Dumbledore rewards Neville—who tried to stop Harry, Ron and Hermione from going after the Sorcerer's Stone—with the winning House Cup points? It was an early glimmer of Neville's greatness, to be sure!
52. "If you want to kill Harry, you'll have to kill us too!" —Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Ron's not about to let Harry die at the hands of Sirius Black alone!
53. "I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends." —Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Oh, Luna, breaking our hearts with her casual statements, this one about the Dumbledore's Army meetings. Of course, we later learn she decorates her bedroom with a mural of the core DA members surrounded by the word "friends"!
54 "[James] called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit." —Remus Lupin on his werewolf condition, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Is there a greater show of friendship than undergoing a complicated, not to mention illegal, animal transformation process to support your friend who's a werewolf? We don't think so. (Peter Pettigrew's betrayal notwithstanding.)
55. DUMBLEDORE: "You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them."HARRY: "I didn't want —"DUMBLEDORE: "— to worry or frighten them? Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry." —Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, on Harry confiding in Ron and Hermione. As more-than-a-little-manipulative as it is, the relationship between Harry and Dumbledore certainly qualifies as a friendship of sorts, too. The fact that Dumbledore says this knowing he's planned his death soon and is going to leave Harry is a bit of a gut-punch.
56. "We're with you whatever happens." —Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
57. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago — years, really." —Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Before Harry, Hermione, and Ron embark on their journey to find Horcruxes, Hermione assures him that they're not going to let him go alone after all they've been through together.
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58. "Yer a wizard, Harry." —Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (film). In the book, Hagrid says, "Harry — yer a wizard." But there's a reason the iconic film version is what you'll see on Harry Potter merch everywhere! It's by far the most famous Hagrid quote.
59. "You're saying it wrong. It's leviOsa, not levioSA." —Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (film). Hermione says a version of this iconic quote in the book, too, but Emma Watson's delivery and phrasing made it an instant classic.
60. "Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film). Nope, that one wasn't in the books! Dumbledore says it in the start-of-term feast in Harry's third year.
61. "What's life without a little risk?" —Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
62. "Nice one, James!" —Sirius Black to Harry, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film). In another film-only moment, Sirius mistakenly yells this while fighting alongside Harry in the Department of Mysteries. Is it a powerful moment that encapsulates how Harry has more than lived up to his father's potential? Or a flawed one where Sirius reveals that he only ever saw Harry as a replacement for his father? Either way, fans of the franchise definitely have opinions on it!
63. "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect." —Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film). By the end of Order of the Phoenix, we're all in on Luna Lovegood, especially when she offers these quippy yet profound words to Harry after she finds her stolen shoes.
64. "You can't deny, Dumbledore's got style." —Kingsley Shacklebolt, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film). Dumbledore spectacularly escapes his Ministry of Magic pursuers by catching a ride with his flaming pet phoenix. The pureblood-maniacal headmaster portrait Phineas Nigellus Black says a more subdued version of this line in the books, but we prefer Kingsley's film delivery!
65. "Dobby never meant to kill! Dobby only meant to maim, or seriously injure!" —Dobby, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (film). Even when fighting Death Eaters in Malfoy Manor, Dobby is so pure.
66. "I've always wanted to use that spell!" —Minerva McGonagall, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (film). We love giddy McGonagall when she uses a spell that animates the Hogwarts suits of armor to defend the school in the Battle of Hogwarts. (She does the spell in the books too, but the delightful follow-up is film only.)
67. "It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers." —Remus Lupin, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (film). You'll remember this line as the one where Kingsley Shacklebolt asks, "Who said that?" and Lupin proudly replies, "Me!"
68. "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it." —Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (film)
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69. "Mr. And Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." —Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It's not a quote that a character says, but we couldn't have a list of Harry Potter quotes without including the iconic opening. When you read that very first line, you know instantly that that normalcy's about to be upended, and you can't wait.
70. "The wand chooses the wizard." —Mr. Ollivander, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
71. "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled." —Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
72. "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Dumbledore decisively shuts down Harry's fears about thinking he was better suited to Slytherin at the end of the second book.
73. "You shall not harm Harry Potter!" —Dobby, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. "Dobby is free!" might be the most remembered of all the Dobby quotes, but it's equally satisfying to see him totally whup his former master, Lucius Malfoy, in defense of Harry.
74. "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." —The Marauder's Map, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (and beyond). Though no character technically says this organically, its prominence as the code word to activate the Marauder's Map earns it a spot among the best Harry Potter quotes!
75. "You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!" —Albus Dumbledore to Cornelius Fudge, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
76. "If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!" —Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Maybe not as much of a classic as these others, but a total truth bomb from Hermione. After Dolores Umbridge bans students from reading Harry's exposé on Voldemort's return, Harry is dismayed—but Hermione knows that Umbridge's move is sure to backfire.
77. "Weasley can save anything,He never leaves a single ring,That's why Gryffindors all sing:Weasley is our King." —The Gryffindors in Harry and Ron's fifth year, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. They sing this after Ron leads them to a Quidditch championship—adapting the mocking "Weasley Is Our King" song sung by the Slytherins. That's sportsmanship.
78. "Always." —Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Love Snape or hate him, you can't deny the staying power that his most famous line has had. Dumbledore asks Snape if he's continued to love Lily Evans/Potter "after all this time," and he gives this one-word response.
79. "Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" —Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The last thing we see Dumbledore say (besides his headmaster's portrait) reminds of us the power of thoughts and imagination!
80. "I've had enough trouble for a lifetime." —Harry, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Harry's final line in the series (besides the epilogue) is pretty spot-on. We'll miss you, Harry, but we agree—you deserve some peace!
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Falling into a slump at work or struggling to find that spark of ambition in life? You've come to the right place. We've compiled a list of over 100 short inspirational quotes that'll help motivate and excite you in your daily life. Feel more inspired and determined after reading these positive quotes to brighten your day and powerful quotes from famous people, such as Oprah Winfrey, Helen Keller, and Oscar Wilde. Whatever you're looking for, there's sure to be a mix from our list of motivational quotes designed to lift your spirits.
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"You are your best thing." — Toni Morrison, Beloved
"Be happy for this moment. This moment in your life." — Omar Khayyam
"If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment." — Carlos Santana
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"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." — Albert Schweitzer
"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud." — Maya Angelou
"Give light, and people will find the way." — Ella Baker
"Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow." — Helen Keller
"A person without regrets is a nincompoop." — Mia Farrow
"Life is short, and it is here to be lived." — Kate Winslet
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything." — Geena Davis
"Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream." — Oprah Winfrey
"Everything you can imagine is real." — Pablo Picasso
"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." — Maggie Kuhn
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"If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself." — Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." — Japanese Proverb
"You do not find the happy life. You make it." — Camilla Eyring Kimball
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"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." — W. Clement Stone"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." — Napoleon Hill
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." — Milton Berle
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"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." — Leo Buscaglia, Living, Loving, & Learning
"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." — Henri J.M. Nouwen
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist." — Oscar Wilde
"Never regret anything that made you smile." — Mark Twain
"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive." — Hafez
"Don't count the days, make the days count." — Muhammad Ali
"In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." — Robert Frost
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia." — Charles M. Schulz
"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." — Bil Keane
"It always seems impossible until it's done." — Nelson Mandela
"The best way out is always through." — Robert Frost
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." — Walt Disney
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"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind." — Taylor Swift
"Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door." — Brooke Shields
"The only way to have a life is to commit it to like crazy." — Angelina Jolie
"Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There's only one you." — Queen Latifah
"Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is, and you'll see them all around you." — Jon Bon Jovi
"I was built this way for a reason, so I'm going to use it." — Simone Biles
"I have standards I don't plan on lowering for anybody, including myself." — Zendaya
"If you are working on something that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you." — Steve Jobs
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." — Judy Garland
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I'm possible!'" — Audrey Hepburn
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." — Albert Einstein
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"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." — Audre Lorde
"If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them." — Bell Hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
"Sometimes, your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes, your smile can be the source of your joy." — Thich Nhat Hanh
"True friendship is like a rose. We don't realize its beauty until it fades." — Evelyn Loeb
"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend." — Bill Watterson
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius
"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." — Bonnie Prudden
"Rise above the storm, and you will find the sunshine." — Mario Fernández
"You don't always need a plan. Sometimes, you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens." — Mandy Hale
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." — Mahatma Gandhi
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Inspirational Quotes About Success"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world."— Norman Vincent Peale
"Success is not a destination, it's a journey." — Zig Ziglar
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." — Maya Angelou
"Success only comes to those who dare to attempt." — Mallika Tripathi
"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." — Estée Lauder
"You learn more from failure than from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character." — Unknown
"If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you." — Steven Wright
"It's a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon." — Kermit the Frog
"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." — Colin R. Davis
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness." — Oprah Winfrey
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." — Zig Ziglar
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." — C.S. Lewis
"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the errors that counts." — Nikki Giovanni
"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will." — Suzy Kassem
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Inspirational Love Quotes"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." — Franklin P. Jones
"When you put love out in the world, it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected." — Laverne Cox
"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." — Mother Teresa
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller
"You've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served." — Nina Simone, "You've Got to Learn"
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into place." — Lucille Ball
"There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved." — George Sand
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that." — Martin Luther King Jr.
"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." — Brené Brown
"Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are." — Stephanie Lahart, Overcoming Life's Obstacles: Enlighten-Encourage-EmpowerRELATED: Best Quotes About Love That Your Sweetheart Will Adore
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Inspirational Quotes About Change"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." — Winston Churchill
"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude." — Oprah Winfrey
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." — Leo Tolstoy
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." — George Bernard Shaw
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." — Helen Keller
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." — F. Scott Fitzgerald
"It is never too late to be what you might have been." — George Eliot
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Ghandi
"Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday." — Ellen DeGeneres
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." — Andy WarholRELATED: Best Quotes About Change to Help Inspire Your Next Move
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Inspirational Quotes for Courage"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water." — Rabindranath Tagore
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." — Anaïs Nin
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'." — Mary Anne Radmacher
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." — Neil Gaiman
"What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." — Winston S. Churchill
"It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest." — Walter Anderson
"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." — Nora Ephron
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." — E.E. Cummings
"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it." — Trivia Cunningham
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." — Duke Ellington
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." — Harper Lee
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein
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Inspiring Quotes About Being Yourself"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." — Oscar Wilde
"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." — Janis Joplin
"Follow your heart. Listen to your inner voice. Stop caring about what others think."— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants." — Coco Chanel
"You can't be hesitant about who you are." — Viola Davis
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth." — William W. Purkey
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." — Marilyn Monroe
"Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention, or influence." — Gary Zukav
"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before." — Edwin Elliot
"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." — J.M. Barrie
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now, I realize I should have been more specific." — Lily Tomlin
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." — Herman Melville
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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