57 best inspirational quotes to keep you motivated

26. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt

27. “Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is head down and focus on the job.”
—Chris Pine

28. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
—Alice Walker

29. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
—Abraham Lincoln

30. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
—Mother Teresa

31. “Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity.”
—Will Smith

32. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
—George Addair

33. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
—Oscar Wilde

34. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
—Frida Kahlo

35. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
—Aristotle

36. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
—Vincent Van Gogh

37. “You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.

38. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
—Muhammad Ali

39. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
—C.S. Lewis

40. “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help you create the fact.”
—William James

41. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”
—Serena Williams

42. “I’m continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing.”
—Ashton Kutcher

43. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”
—Earl Nightingale

44. “Make each day your masterpiece.”
—John Wooden

45. “Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

46. “You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?”
—George Bernard Shaw

47. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
—George Eliot

48. “You can never be the best. The only thing you can be the best at is developing yourself.”
—Natalie Portman

49. “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
—Socrates

50. “You can do anything you set your mind to.”
—Benjamin Franklin

51. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
—Henry David Thoreau

52. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
—Zig Ziglar

53. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
—Theodore Roosevelt

54. ” Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
—Winston Churchill

55. “Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.”
—Jim Rohn

56. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

57. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
—Vince Lombardi

This article originally appeared on Teen Vogue.